Greetings, Blaze Babes!

First, my regrets for Orlando! I’ll definitely miss seeing everyone. Sounds like you’ll have a fantastic time at the Harry Potter ride and display. Very jealous.

If you’re attending M&M at the beginning of October, be sure to let me know, I’ll be there, and am looking forward to a great conference.

Lately, I’ve been preoccupied with tackling the slush pile. It’s always an eye-opener, in the best sense. I love to read what authors find interesting in terms of premises and characters and the compelling romances that result.

I’ve also been editing Blaze novels that’ll be released in December. No matter how many I’ve done, it still seems really odd to me to be basking in high temperatures and sunny skies, but reading and working on romances that are all about wintery Christmas!

I promise to have better stuff with my next blog post in September! I have to confess that I’m consumed by the World Cup right now! Ole!

Hello Blaze faithful—

What a fantastic blog! Congrats to everyone. Your participation has made this a truly special spot on the world wide web.

Thanks for the invite to join in!

Though I do work with authors on other series, primarily I’m assigned to acquire for and work on Blaze. I particularly like the brazen, but still feminine heroines, and the contemporary mindset of the main characters, even if they’re riding horseback on a dusty Texas trail in the 1880’s or traversing Scottish highlands a century before that and using time travel to get there!

August’s lineup of titles offers something for every reader who enjoys a sexy story, plus…

Unbridled by Tori Carrington is a modern day Beauty and the Beast tale with an uptown-girl heroine and a rough-and-tumble Marine.

It’s definitely The Personal Touch when Lori Borrill’s hot power couple start a sexy, romantic fling.

Hot Under Pressure is the first book in Kathleen O’Reilly’s brand-new trilogy, featuring unusual places and circumstances for the hero and heroine’s first meet.

The popular Encounters format continues with Sliding into Home from Joanne Rock.

Jill Shalvis’s Storm Watch is the latest compelling romance in the Uniformly Hot! miniseries, highlighting the National Guard.

And another from Kate Hoffmann in the now near-legendary Mighty Quinns family with The Mighty Quinns: Callum.

I hope you’re all enjoying a fantastic summer as we enter the “dog days” of August. Keep safe.

Kathryn

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