I’m following in Isabel’s footsteps this morning, and there’s clearly no way I can compete with her lyrical tribute to her editor via Barry Manilow. LOL. (Brilliant, Isabel!)

In fact, if I did attempt such a tribute, my own editor would run away screaming . . . I’m imagining myself singing such a thing, and it’s not pretty! I can see my dogs with their paws over their ears. I can see the windows shattering. And I can see my husband holding twin toilet plungers over his own ears. So let’s not go there.

I’m very excited that Borrowing a Bachelor is out—it’s the first book in my All the Groom’s Men series for Blaze. It’s a sexy romantic comedy, featuring an accidental stripper who cold-cocks a medical student when she pops out of the cake at a bachelor party.

It’s one of the most fun ‘first meet’ scenes I’ve written, and I’ve written a few by now! I can’t believe I just turned in my 22nd book. (25th if we count the three ‘practice’ manuscripts I never sold.) Hope you’ll enjoy this series! It revolves around three groomsmen in a wedding, and how they meet their own matches at the bachelor party, the rehearsal dinner and the wedding.

Like Joanne, I’m still recovering from the holidays, and part of that involves cleaning out my office. Not a very exciting thing to blog about, I know! But I’m writing about it because I’m also having to clear some overflowing shelves and piles of books . . . and it’s so hard to part with them. Like saying goodbye to old friends.

I was talking to a critique partner about this process, and she had a much more positive take on it: rather than saying goodbye, I’m introducing them to new readers who will love them just as much as I did. I’m widening their social circle!

Speaking of critique partners, I’m off to my critique group now . . . to witness the birth of more wonderful stories. Happy New Year to you all, and happy reading.

Karen Kendall

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 8:51 am and is filed under Karen Kendall. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.