Some quick updates. Besides the recent releases you will see in this newsletter, you'll find I've been mighty busy!

In April, I attended the Dogwood Writers conference at Greenbo Lake State Park in Kentucky, put on by the KYOWA (Kentucky-Ohio-West Virginia) chapter of Romance Writers of America. What a great time. The dogwoods were blooming and the weather was just perfect. This conference is held annually in late April and I always have it on my calendar. You should check it out!

For the past couple of years, I've attended the Lori Foster and Dianne Castell Reader & Author event in Cincinnati. I love meeting up with readers and authors there. This year I dragged along my sister, who won lots of books! That made her happy. Great fun, again, and I look forward to it next year. You can see a few pictures here!

I've also started a new discussion board so for those you who like to share info in that way, you might be interested in visiting.

As always, there are continually new things happening on my blog so be sure to visit often. Last week we were hunting for spirits in pictures...

Suzie Matthews (Bed, Breakfast & You) loves to cook and she's the best darned cook in Legend, Tennessee. Everyone says so. She runs her own B&B, has published a cookbook, conducts cooking classes on Saturdays, and caters for special events and holidays.

You would think that would be enough, wouldn't you?

It seems, however, that she has also discovered another talent--matchmaking! Firm in her belief that good food is a way to a man's stomach, and his heart, she is convinced she can bring her friends (and maybe foes?) together for a perfect match.

After some success getting her sister back together with her old boyfriend, she sets out to test her matchmaking ability
on the one woman in Legend who no one thinks will ever get married, Mary Lou Picketts. Suzie figures if she can find the perfect match for Mary Lou, she's in business.

And so, the story Perfectly Matched, was born, hooking up Mary Lou with country music star Nash Rhodes. In Hot Crossed Buns, Katie Long gets tamed by local Legend cop, Chris Marks. Dates du Jour finds Lyssa Larkin, homecoming queen of 1992, wanting to get married just so she can get a divorce. In Side Dish, Becca North, who has sworn off men, finds herself swept off her feet by her best friend's date. And finally, in Mate to Order, the producer of Suzie's Food Channel show, Patricia Plum, puts in her order for a husband.

Each novella in the series stands on its own and is available first in ebook, then together in one print volume in early 2010.

You can read more about The Matchmaking Chef series and other Ladies of Legend books by visiting the Legend, Tennessee Web site.

Note: Side Dish will be release in August, 2009 and Mate to Order, in September 2009. All other titles are currently available at Resplendence Publishing or Fictionwise.