First, some awesome news! Three days after going live in the Kindle Store my first memoir, Being Naughty: The Life & Times of an Erotica Novelist, hit the Top 100 Bestsellers List in two categories. It was #26 in Sex books and #21 in Marriage books out of almost 2000 books in each category. And it stayed on the Marriage list for over 24 hours. Wow! I swear, I have the best readers/fans in the world. Yes, I do.

Okay, I have a treat for you today. This is an interview that ran last week on the “Sizzling Hot Books” blog. When I posted about it on Goodreads, Facebook, and Twitter, several of my readers said they loved it because it gives a more in-depth view of my writing process and my books than my other interviews.

Cool!

I have a holiday weekend gift for you. Yes, I do! This is an interview I did back in May. It’s a really funny one, and I had planned to post it on this blog in May. But then all hell broke lose (in a good way *lol*) when I parted ways with one of my publishers, and I entered my I’m-gonna-get-9-new-books-edited-in-30-days-to-go-in-the-Kindle-Store phase, which I just emerged from last week.

Yay!

So here it is. Hope you have a fab holiday! Make me proud and do something naughty.

Alrightyyyy!!!

First, an update. I am slowly but surely getting the agent/publisher mess of the last year straightened out. Whew!

Just got a contract today from Trytium Publishing. My ex-agent’s plan was to buy out my publishing contracts with my other publishers and put all my books with one publisher. A BIG risk for me, but I decided to give it a shot. That means he bought out my contract for “The Witchery Series” with Trytium last year.

Well, as you all know, the “new” publisher didn’t work out, and we parted ways on May 21. That meant I finally got the 9 books back that publisher had been sitting on for almost a year. Three of those books are “The Witchery Series” trilogy novels. The deal my ex-agent worked out with Trytium was that those novels would never go out of print during the transition phase. So Trytium has continued to publish them in paperback. The minute I got all the rights back, I contacted Dave at Trytium, and told him to send me another contract. That’s what I got today. So Trytium will continue to publish this popular series in paperback, and Kittyfeather Press will now publish this trilogy in ebook with hunky new covers. Cool, huh?

For those of you who noticed, yes, I skipped my May newsletter. What can I say? Last month was like two months long. A fab month, but soooooo much happened. All of it good, but very hectic. And I was just too slammed to write a newsletter, so I thought I’d catch everyone up in this blog post.

The first of May my agent and I parted ways on friendly terms. And on May 2, I sent out a “Special Message” to all of you, explaining what had happened and why. I cannot thank you enough for your kind and generous response. I really felt your love at one of the lowest points of my career, emotionally and financially. I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for the way you rallied around me. You are truly AMAZING!

Then on May 13, “A Vampire’s Kiss” went on sale in the Kindle Store. Yay! I’ve wanted to be in Kindle forever, so I’m thrilled about this. Sales have been strong and steady, so I’m a happy slut for sure.

An awesome interview with me appeared last Friday on the “Books, Books, and More Books” blog (www.ruthiesbookreviews.blogspot.com). Ruth Schaller did a fab job with her questions! If you missed my tweets about it last Friday I thought you might like to take a look at it here.

I’ve done like seven interviews so far since “A Vampire’s Kiss” was published on March 9. The wild thing is even if some of the same questions are asked (and they are from time to time) my answers are always different. Why? Cause it just depends on what kinda mood this slut is in: slutty, sluttier, or sluttiest. No wonder one of my fans said she loves reading these interviews since she learns something different about me every time. Now you know why. lmao!

Speaking of that, I’m posting most of these interviews on my book site (”Interviews” button at http://www.avampskiss.blogspot.com) if you’d like to read more of them. And I just finished another interview on Thursday night that will go live May 5 on a vamp review blog. I was wide open that night, so it’s the sluttiest one yet. No kidding. I’ll tweet everyone to let you know when it goes live.

A review of “A Vampire’s Kiss” and a cool interview with me came out on Friday on the Maybe Tomorrow? website (http://www.xxbetty.blogspot.com). Beth Tyler did an awesome job with both, so I thought I would run them today as my Tuesday blog post.

Just in case you’re wondering, I did NOT behave myself in the interview. Not my fault! I’ve got strippers-on-the-brain syndrome. Although I‘d much rather have them on another part of my bod. Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….!

Short blog post today. I just wanted to let everyone who reads this blog (and isn’t on my email list) know that the next issue of “A Vampire’s Kiss” came out on Saturday.

Yay!

That’s right. Vol.1, No.2 (Chapters 4-6) is on sale NOW!

At the end of Vol.1., No.1 we left Sara sitting in Dray’s lap. But that lusty Green Witch always gets her man, and she WANTS Dray. Keep a cold drink handy. Vol.1, No.2 is wall-to-wall sex!

Okay, you’ve been warned… *sex-obsessed grin*

I did the coolest thing on Monday. Okay, first let me say I’m a verrrrrrry organized person. I mean, how could I write and publish over 45 books in 23 years without being organized? Duh. Plus, organization makes me kinda orgasmic.

Really.

Anyway, when I woke up on Monday morning I was suddenly fed up with the book issue on my new site. Yeah, I was not happy that my book info and links are still at my old books site at Blogger.

If you’ve ever googled me, you know I also have a line of empowering art prints and posters. Many of you have been asking when these items will be added to my store.

Well, today is the day!

In 1995, Haddad’s Fine Arts Inc., in California began publishing a line of six art prints and one poster featuring my empowering poems, mediations, and whimsical paintings. Since then these prints have sold worldwide every year and were carried for a while by Target (on the West Coast), Michael’s, and Bed, Bath & Beyond. Now they’re sold by several art print distributors on the web and in art galleries/frame shops worldwide.

“Laura!! Your book arrived!! I loved the dedication and I’ll treasure it forever. as soon as I read it, I will review it on Goodreads!! Many hugs and thanks!!” (Rozonda, Spain)