I’m going to be all over the Internet…starting this week, actually, to promote SECRETS OF AN ACCIDENTAL DUCHESS and ONCE UPON A WICKED NIGHT. I’m going to be doing TONS of blogs and giveaways. Please come visit me! For a list of where I’ll be, please visit my APPEARANCES page at www.jenniferhaymore.com/bonus-features/appearances. For all of you who stop by here…I couldn’t do it without you. Thanks so much for your support!

Hugs,
Jennifer

The audiobook version of CONFESSIONS OF AN IMPROPER BRIDE is releasing on January 30th. This is so exciting for me–I am an avid audiobook listener, and I can’t wait to hear how the reader interpreted my story. And they came up with a beautiful new cover just for the audiobook version. I think she’s a perfect likeness of Serena. Yay! 🙂
Here’s a link to buy or read more:
Tantor Audio
It’s also available on Amazon and other book retail outlets!

When my editor offered me a chance to write a short story as a bridge between CONFESSIONS OF AN IMPROPER BRIDE and SECRETS OF AN ACCIDENTAL DUCHESS, I jumped at the chance! The idea came fairly quickly: I’d return Serena and Jonathan to the Dowager Duchess of Clayworth’s ball–the place where they lost all their dreams years ago. Serena and Jonathan still have a bit of healing to do, and where better than the place where it all happened?

Then, there’s Olivia, Serena’s younger sister, who’s just arrived in London and has never seen anything quite like the dowager’s ball. Naive Olivia gets herself into quite a terrible situation…but it’s a mistake that will ultimately lead to her meeting Max, the hero of SECRETS OF AN ACCIDENTAL DUCHESS.

The short story ONCE UPON A WICKED NIGHT is a little gift for my readers releasing on February 1 (the same day as the official release of SECRETS OF AN ACCIDENTAL DUCHESS). It’s $0.99 and available wherever ebooks are sold. I hope you’ll pick up a copy!

For more information and an excerpt, click here!

Hi All! I’m giving away a stack of books with one book by each of the Dangerous Women:

FORBIDDEN HIGHLANDER by Donna Grant

THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL by Lisa Renee Jones

NEVER CRY WOLF by Cynthia Eden

A SEASON OF SEDUCTION by Jennifer Haymore

SINS OF THE FLESH by Caridad Pineiro

To enter, just sign up for freebies here on my site (if you don’t want freebies sent to you, just say so in the address fields of the form —I’ll enter you in the contest but won’t send the freebies).

For more about the Dangerous Women, please visit us at www.dangerwomenwriting.com or sign up for our readers group here.

One person who signs up for Freebies from now through December 26 will be randomly selected to win the books!

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

***Update December 26: Thanks to all who entered! I hope you enjoy your freebies! Congrats to Ashley B., Who won the 5 Dangerous Women Books! Merry Christmas!

Jennifer

The DWW Authors want to play Secret Santa this year ~ we’d love to help out a family with children and make their Christmas as special as this year has been for us!

If you’d like to nominate a family, just send us an email at
DWWSanta
telling us why and how you think we can help this family out.

We’ll pick 5 families from the entries, and randomly draw our
Secret Santa recipient from those!

Entries must be received by the 14th so our recipient can be chosen in time for the holiday.

Happy Holidays!
Jennifer

Confessions of an Improper Bride is out! It’s available in bookstores, as well as in Target and Walmart. This book means a lot to me, because not only is it the start of a new series for me, but I wrote it during the toughest year of my life. I truly hope readers enjoy the first story of the Donovan sisters!

How cool is that? My publisher, Grand Central, is offering my first book, A HINT OF WICKED for $0.99 at just about all the ebook retailers out there for the month of July!

Here’s where to find it:
Amazon Kindle
Barnes and Noble
Borders
Sony eBook Store

Here we gooooo! Only four weeks left until the release of Confessions of an Improper Bride, the first book in my three-book series, The Donovan Sisters! I am so excited, but I’m also nail-bitingly nervous. I hope people enjoy this series as much as I enjoyed writing it! Please keep stopping by, because in the next few weeks, I’m going to be offering some great prizes here and over at Dangerous Women to celebrate this release! I’m looking forward to having some fun with everyone!

Ooh, one more thing! I did an interview over at The James Gang, talking about my first series (The James Family series) and the new series as well. Come check it out!

Confessions of an Improper Bride is releasing in a little under two months. It’s the start of a brand-new series for me, which is significant, I realized, because I’ve just started a new phase of my life. It’s been a year since I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and being given that diagnosis is definitely a life-changing experience. They say things will never be the same for a person after being told she has cancer, but that people eventually find a “new normal.” The year has been traumatic and busy (between treatments, 3 active children, and book deadlines)…and definitely “abnormal.” But now that it’s all over (except for the constant check-ups), I feel like things are finally settling down. Things aren’t exactly the same as they were before, but they’re pretty good, in a new way. 2011 has definitely started in a much more positive way than 2010 did, and I’m starting to understand what everyone means by a “new normal.”

So between my eldest son starting Jr. High next year (and he’s almost as tall as me–how did that happen!?), my new series, and my “new normal,” I feel like I’m embarking on a new beginning and a new journey. One that I definitely hope my friends, family, and readers will join me on. 🙂

Check out my new contest! For the month of June, I’m giving away a copy of my first trilogy: A Hint of Wicked, A Touch of Scandal, and A Season of Seduction!

So I was researching garters today (for my heroine Olivia, in Secrets of an Accidental Duchess), and I came upon this, from a book written in 1813. I didn’t know the garter custom was this old; and I really didn’t know it got this…um…wild!

GARTERS at WEDDINGS

There was formerly a custom in the North of England which will be thought to have bordered very closely upon Indecency, and strongly marks the grossness of Manners that prevailed among our Ancestors: it was for the young men present at a Wedding to strive immediately after the Ceremony, who could first pluck off the Bride’s Garters from her legs.

This was done before the very Altar. The Bride was generally gartered with Ribbons for the occasion. Whoever were so fortunate as to be Victors in this singular species of Contest, during which the Bride was often obliged to scream out, and was very frequently thrown down, bore them about the Church in triumph. These Garters, it should seem, were antiently worn as Trophies in the Hats.

–Observations on popular antiquities:
chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, ceremonies and superstitions, Volume 2, by Geeraert Brandt & Henry Ellis

Nice!
And if this author considers his ancestors’ manners gross, do you think he’s turning over in his grave now? 😉