Wishing you and yours a happy new year!
Michele
Monday, December 31, 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
The Marriage Recipe--Coming April 2008
Sweet Sensations!
New York loves pastry chef Rachel Palladia’s desserts, and her boss in the A-list Italian restaurant where she works is desperate to make her his wife.
A country girl’s dream come true—untilshe catches her fiancé making love to someone else.
When her ex-fiancé sues her for the rights to her recipes, Rachel heads home to Morrisville, Indiana, to ask Colin Morris—the town’s hotshot lawyer and her former secret crush—for help.
But while they’re working on an ironclad defense, their relationship really heats up!
The two are concocting a recipe for the perfect marriage—except
he’s determined to stay small-town, and she yearns for the big city’s bright lights.
A dilemma, for sure, unless they can cook up a solution…
4 Star RT Review for The Christmas Date
In Michele Dunaway's The Christmas Date (4) photojournalist Tyler is a love-'em-and-leave-'em guy. When he buys a house, he isn't interested in changing his ways. But he didn't count on being captivated by next-door neighbor Kate, a hard-working paralegal studying to become a lawyer. She doesn't have time for love, but the couple's chemistry is undeniable. Despite the disapproval of Kate's nosy neighbor, and the bewilderment of her best friends, the couple tries to make it work in this sweet, compelling romance. —Whitney Kate Sullivan
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
I just want to take a moment to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
2007 has been awesome for me and I appreciate your being part of it. Will write more in 2008. I'm off to finish book #20.
All the best,
Michele
2007 has been awesome for me and I appreciate your being part of it. Will write more in 2008. I'm off to finish book #20.
All the best,
Michele
Sunday, December 16, 2007
More Press
I am featured at The Motivated Writer. Com
Use the link below. I'm talking about my creative space.
http://www.themotivatedwriter.com/12december.html
Use the link below. I'm talking about my creative space.
http://www.themotivatedwriter.com/12december.html
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Press Time!
I received press this weekend. I'm one of the authors featured in a Columbia Missourian article.
Here's the link:http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2007/12/07/passion-writing/
Here's the link:http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2007/12/07/passion-writing/
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Another review for Hart's Victory
By Carol Carson Monk
Michele Dunaway has done it again with another great book. This is her fifteenth for Harlequin, and her first in the NASCAR series. HART’s VICTORy has it all – wonderful, believable characters and an intelligent, emotional story. When single mom kellie Thompson and her teenage son, Charlie, attend a camp for terminally ill kids, they meet NASCAR driver Hart
Hampton, Charlie’s idol.
Because of his illness, Charlie believes he won’t be around forever and thinks Hart would be perfect for his mom. The two of them have had a longstanding joke that the reason she isn’t dating is because she’s holding out for Hart, the heart throb of the NASCAR circuit. Charlie seizes the opportunity and does his best to see that the two of them get together.
Hart has been in a losing slump and is coming off a wreck on the track. Although he wasn’t seriously injured, he’s been told to stay away for the weekend and do a bit of charity work at the children’s camp. To improve his playboy image and repair public relations at the same time, Hart reluctantly agrees.
When he meets Charlie and kellie he instantly falls for both of them.
In spite of her attraction to Hart, kellie rebuffs his attentions. She is one hundred percent focused on getting Charlie healthy. However, Hart doesn’t take no for an answer. He easily wins Charlie over, then he works full time to gain kellie’s affections. His life may have revolved
around auto racing, but now he sees what he’s been missing– a loving family to share it with.
This book works on three levels – the romance, the NASCAR aspect, and the one I found most endearing, Charlie’s fight for his life battling leukemia. This is a heart-wrenching, emotional roller coaster of a read.
You will fall in love with Hart, just as Charlie and kellie do. It doesn’t matter if you are a race fan, this is one character-driven tale of love and devotion that will keep you reading long into the night. keep the tissue box close.
Michele Dunaway has done it again with another great book. This is her fifteenth for Harlequin, and her first in the NASCAR series. HART’s VICTORy has it all – wonderful, believable characters and an intelligent, emotional story. When single mom kellie Thompson and her teenage son, Charlie, attend a camp for terminally ill kids, they meet NASCAR driver Hart
Hampton, Charlie’s idol.
Because of his illness, Charlie believes he won’t be around forever and thinks Hart would be perfect for his mom. The two of them have had a longstanding joke that the reason she isn’t dating is because she’s holding out for Hart, the heart throb of the NASCAR circuit. Charlie seizes the opportunity and does his best to see that the two of them get together.
Hart has been in a losing slump and is coming off a wreck on the track. Although he wasn’t seriously injured, he’s been told to stay away for the weekend and do a bit of charity work at the children’s camp. To improve his playboy image and repair public relations at the same time, Hart reluctantly agrees.
When he meets Charlie and kellie he instantly falls for both of them.
In spite of her attraction to Hart, kellie rebuffs his attentions. She is one hundred percent focused on getting Charlie healthy. However, Hart doesn’t take no for an answer. He easily wins Charlie over, then he works full time to gain kellie’s affections. His life may have revolved
around auto racing, but now he sees what he’s been missing– a loving family to share it with.
This book works on three levels – the romance, the NASCAR aspect, and the one I found most endearing, Charlie’s fight for his life battling leukemia. This is a heart-wrenching, emotional roller coaster of a read.
You will fall in love with Hart, just as Charlie and kellie do. It doesn’t matter if you are a race fan, this is one character-driven tale of love and devotion that will keep you reading long into the night. keep the tissue box close.
More fan mail
I have to admit, getting emails from readers makes my day. As an author, we pour our hearts out into our books. We slave over them, crafting every word. We second guess ourselves. We then put the book out there and worry, will the reader like it? Will they think it sucks? Have we done the best job we possibly could have done?
The waiting is sometimes pure torture. Then the reviews come in, and they're good so I feel a little better. Then, if an author is lucky, the emails come in that don't chastize or let you know you screwed up somehow. Instead you get short, sweet little things that make your day, like this one from Melba:
I just read the Christmas Date and I couldn’t put the book down. This book is a keeper. Thank you.
Those type of emails, which means the reader went to my website and used the response form, make my day. Writing is a job. But unlike my teaching job, I don't receive immediate feedback. In my day job I can see my students' reactions. My principals and colleagues stop by and pat me on the back, like they did after the first high school newspaper my students produced this year.
As an author, our only real feedback aside from our sales numbers is reader feedback. To have reader stop by the website and drop you a line makes you feel that all your effort is worth it. It gives that positive push when the muse leaves and you wonder if you can really tell a story at all.
So thanks Melba, and all those other readers who let us authors know we've touched you enough to write. You make our day.
The waiting is sometimes pure torture. Then the reviews come in, and they're good so I feel a little better. Then, if an author is lucky, the emails come in that don't chastize or let you know you screwed up somehow. Instead you get short, sweet little things that make your day, like this one from Melba:
I just read the Christmas Date and I couldn’t put the book down. This book is a keeper. Thank you.
Those type of emails, which means the reader went to my website and used the response form, make my day. Writing is a job. But unlike my teaching job, I don't receive immediate feedback. In my day job I can see my students' reactions. My principals and colleagues stop by and pat me on the back, like they did after the first high school newspaper my students produced this year.
As an author, our only real feedback aside from our sales numbers is reader feedback. To have reader stop by the website and drop you a line makes you feel that all your effort is worth it. It gives that positive push when the muse leaves and you wonder if you can really tell a story at all.
So thanks Melba, and all those other readers who let us authors know we've touched you enough to write. You make our day.
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