While I was at RWA, I was thrilled to receive two Prism Awards at the FF&P party (the Gathering).  I won a Prism for best dark paranormal romance (IMMORTAL DANGER) and for best novella (In the Dark from the anthology, BELONG TO THE NIGHT).  Thank you so much to all of the FF&P judges!  My lovely awards are now sitting in a place of honor on my bookshelves. Every time I look at them, they make me want to write more!  And, yes, dang it, I got teary when I accepted the awards.

Thank you so much to everyone who has purchased DEADLY FEAR! For the week ending 8/1/10, it was ranked #82 on Bookscan’s Adult Fiction (Overall) Romance list. Again, thank you!

Hi, everyone!

Today I’m guesting over at the Borders True Romance Blog, and I’m guest posting at Bitten By Books (the event will start at 12 pm Central time for Bitten By Books).  Two great places! And great prizes (yes, I said prizes).  So if you have a chance, come check out the fun.

Thanks to everyone for participating in my Deadly Days of Summer event.  I will definitely plan more blog parties!!

It’s time for me to announce the big winners so…

Here we go!

The “Share” winner is Laurie (HighlandHussy)–$50 Amazon.com gift certificate

June’s $50 Amazon.com gift certificate:  Marlene Breakfield

July’s $50 Amazon.com gift certificate: Mary Preston

Congrats!!

Please email me at cynthia@cynthiaeden.com to claim your prize.

I thought I’d share my pics in “Yearbook” slide style (Yearbook was the only setting that let me get my crazy long captions on there!). I do have a few videos, but they are having some technical difficulties–I may wind up loading them on YouTube.  But, that’s later. Here’s now.

Now for the industry talk…
Grand Central Publishing’s Forever line will be releasing four titles in 2011 (they had been releasing three a month).  They are looking to acquire sensual historicals, contemporaries, erotic romances (romanticas), RS, and paranormals. You do need an agent in order to submit to Grand Central (unless you receive a submission request at a conference or as a result of  a contest).  The word count for the Forever line is 85-95k.

I attended the Booksellers Panel (with all the Book Buyers from Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Books-a-Million).  When asked what was “trending” in romance, erotica was the answer for the e-book side. In print, paranormals were listed as being hot sells.  Regency historicals were noted to be doing well, and steampunk was also mentioned.

They cautioned that after a few books in a series, it was better for an author to then do a spin-off instead of a “straight” series continuation (perhaps readers get tired after the third book?).

More info to come!