Hello Readers, and Happy May!

I hope your flowers fared better than mine. The late winter storm pretty much destroyed my spring blooms. Bummer.  I’ll be planting soon enough though!

For now, I have some fun stuff in my updates that I want to share!

Because I’m hard at work writing my next romance, HARD TO HANDLE, which should be out in Feb 08, I’m going to make this short and sweet. :)

SIMON SAYS is now the feature page! I’ve included an ultra cool video for the book, another excerpt, reader questions with my replies, and comments on the story.

That’s right, some readers received ARCs – Advanced Reviewer Copies – for being very dedicated and faithfully posting online reviews at Amazon and BN. Check out the SIMON SAYS page of my site to see what they had to say.

SIMON SAYS will be out July 3rd.

I have more appearances set up for late 07 and 08. If you’re in any of the areas that I’ll be, I hope you plan to stop by and say HI!

I just posted an excerpt for the upcoming anthology, “I’M YOUR SANTA.” My novella in that collection is related to the single titles, “TOO MUCH TEMPTATION and NEVER TOO MUCH.” I hope you enjoy revisiting Noah and Grace, Ben and Sierra, and Kent and Brooke.

Check out the awesome “READER AND AUTHOR” T-shirt available from my cafepress store. The shirt features bookcovers from authors participating in the event - http://lorifoster.com/community/readergettogthr.htm  

Right now, we have 45 authors signed up, and over 110 attendees total. Check out the “Reader and Author” page of my site, under the “Community” link to see the list of author names.
If you plan to attend, get those registrations in! It’s only $35 to visit with all those authors, 2 agents and 2 editors. Deadline to register is May 19th.

Free Stuff! Right now I have bookmarks for SIMON SAYS & CAUSING HAVOC, SERVANT: The Awakening (by my alter ego, L.L.Foster) and cover flats for I’M YOUR SANTA, ENTICING, A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS (in mass market) all the Buckhorn brothers, except SAWYER.

To receive the free goodies, send an SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope) to:

Lori Foster
P.O. Box 854
Ross OH 45061

For bookmarks, use a legal sized envelopes (the bookmarks are long) and for the covers, use at least a 7” x 9” envelope.

Any time you write me, please include an SASE for a quicker response. I LOVE hearing from you, but it makes it much easier on me if I don’t have to mess around with return envelopes.

If you’re curious about upcoming releases, print off my full-color one-sheet calendar that shows you exactly what’s coming out and when. http://lorifoster.com/images/Calendaronline07.jpg

Lately, I’ve gotten a lot of requests for photos. You can download your own from my site, under the Author link, and then Press Kit.

Remember, you can visit with me on my email loop LoriFosterBookJunkies (connect under the Newsletter link) – but be warned, this is a busy loop and very email heavy; I check into my message board daily; I’m at www.runningwithquills.com to blog every other weekend; and I’ve opened up my Myspace page to readers.

Links for all of the above are on my homepage.

Lastly, please stop by to visit www.llfoster.com and let me know what you think! I hope readers enjoy my “darker” side. SERVANT: The Awakening will out in October!

Hugs to all, and keep smiling!

Lori Foster
www.lorifoster. com
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