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It’s here! My completely redesigned website is up and running, and it is spectacular. I’ve been listening to your requests, so the website contains:

• Lots of information about my new paranormal series, the Chosen Ones.
• A “Coming Soon” page with all my future releases and the publication dates as I know them (although remember — publication dates are likely to change!) There’s a new cover up, too!
• On that page and others, there’s a box to fill in so you can email your friends Christina Dodd news — and nobody’s address is collected for promotional purposes. 
• Fun new photos
• Information on upcoming live on-line chats.
• Each section — paranormal, contemporary and historical — has its own design.
• Even better, if you don’t like the design you picked, you can redecorate!

Plus I retained the parts of the website you loved — the excerpts, the printable book list, the rotating quotes on the home page, and the frequently asked questions.

Because you’re on my mailing list, you can enter the newly designed members’ section, re-named Christina’s Salon, and there you’ll find new videos as they are created, exclusive excerpts and right now, my brilliant web designer is out looking for new games.

If you find broken links or typos — my mother was a proofreader, but I didn’t inherit that gene — let us know at . You can also send praise — I’m incredibly proud of the site!

Please let all your friends know about my great, all-new, improved website!

Warmly,
Christina Dodd
http://www.christinadodd.com

For the wild at heart!

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. — Mark Twain

The Squawk Chicks are back! Elizabeth Bevarly, Connie Brockway, Christina Dodd, Eloisa James, Lisa Kleypas and Teresa Medeiros have each chosen five of their favorite blogs and bound them together (with a few hilarious extras!) in a beautiful e-book available at Scribd.com. Half the money from the sale of the book will be donated to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota, an organization Connie Brockway has been affiliated with for over 10 years. Once you’ve purchased the book, you can read it on-line (forever) on Scribd.com’s fabulous IPaper or you can download the PDF file to your computer or Kindle. And all for only $3.00!

(We’re aware that PDF files are very easy to share but we’re kindly asking you not to share this one with your friends since we want to raise as much money as possible for Connie’s precious critters.)

Click here to find out more:  http://tinyurl.com/nur6s2

Or purchase the book directly at:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/15932347/THE-BEST-OF-SQUAWK-RADIO

Dear Friends,
I remember how much you used to enjoy my SEXIEST MEN ALIVE blogs so I thought it would be fun to make a very special video just for you. (And boy was it ever fun!)

So if you’re looking for a few good men...or a few bad boys...check out my new YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7nV0lQaab0

Hugs,
Teresa
http://www.teresamedeiros.com

Yes, it’s true. I’m Twittering. I know, it sounds like something I should take medicine for, but actually it’s a quick, easy and fairly painless way to exchange news and keep up with each other. And besides, Teresa and Connie are Tweeting, and you know what a copycat I am. So follow me!

I promised you a completely re-designed Christina Dodd website, and we’re almost there. A few more weeks of reviewing and updating, and we’ll go live. I’ll let you know when it’s up so you can check it out … and find all the typos. ☺

Last but definitely not least, yesterday I got this email:
Congratulations, Christina! Your book, INTO THE FLAME, has been awarded the Best of the Year for Paranormal Romance by the reviewers at Romance Reviews Today.

And a few minutes later I got this email:
Me again! Congratulations, Christina! Your book, INTO THE FLAME, has been awarded the Best of the Year for Paranormal Romance and Best Overall Book of the Year by the reviewers at Romance Reviews Today.

I’m so glad to win for this book and this series. Writing stories is what I love to do, but some stories fall together more easily than others. Not that the readers seem to notice—sometimes they love the books that were so much work I was ready to fling myself on bamboo stakes. Sometimes they hate them. Sometimes they love the books that fell together like a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes they hate them. What I think of my books seems to have nothing to do with how they’re received.

But Darkness Chosen was different, a gift series, landing in my lap and making my brain work for the pure joy of plotting the individual stories and the overall plot. I was so proud of Darkness Chosen that when the first two books came out, I thought readers were going to lift me on their shoulders and carry me down the parade route. Amazingly, no one did. Then, a year later, the next two books came out, and the response was so great! I realized I had written a word of mouth series, the kind of books that made people talk. I’m happy that for once my enthusiasm and abilities lined up just right to make Darkness Chosen a winner in every way. Thank you to Jane Bower for her passionate review of INTO THE FLAME, and thanks to everyone at RRT who joined in her enthusiasm! Check it out! (I admit I wrote and asked whether there would be a coronation. I was soundly ignored.)

Until next time, enjoy reading and romance! (Not necessarily in that order.)

Warmly,
Christina Dodd
http://www.christinadodd.com
For the wild at heart!

Isn’t there an other part of the matzo you can eat? — Marilyn Monroe on being served matzo ball soup

Well, you’ve heard them Squawk and now you can hear them Tweet!  Connie Brockway and Teresa Medeiros have succumbed to the Twitter craze that’s sweeping the nation and have finally found a way to insult each other in 140 characters or less. (Actually Connie can do it in two words but this is a family show.)

To become our minions...cough cough...I mean followers, just go to http://www.twitter.com/teresamedeiros or http://www.twitter.com/conniebrockway and sign up for a free account. Click the FOLLOW button and soon you’ll be privy to lots of delicious up-to-the-minute details of Connie’s and Teresa’s lives. You too can be present when Connie drags another helpless dog off to the frozen tundra or when Teresa succumbs to the irresistible lure of Frappucino Friday. You can also stalk...um...follow...some of your favorite celebrities. Teresa has already figured out how to stalk...um...follow Donny Osmond, Lance Armstrong and Russell Crowe. 

There’s also an amazing free tool called TWEETDECK that lets you easily manage all of your TWITTER pals. You can download it at http://www.tweetdeck.com

So come join us and start answering the question that’s sweeping the nation:  What are YOU doing??? 

I’d like to thank all of my readers for putting SOME LIKE IT WILD on the New York Times bestseller list this week at #22!  It was #31 last week so that was a pretty big jump.

Also if you’re Twittering, come follow me at www.twitter.com/teresamedeiros

Hi guys,
Just wanted to let you know that I’ll be blogging over at http://www.runningwithquills.com on Monday April 13th and over at http://www.romancevagabonds.com on Tuesday April 14th.  Hope you can pop by and say hello! 

I’m also experimenting with the joys of Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/teresamedeiros

And thanks to all of you for putting SOME LIKE IT WILD on the New York Times bestseller list this week!