Making A List...

I frequently get asked if I'm going to write the next book in a series or what I'm writing now. I'm going to share with you my Works-in-progress list. This is subject to change and alteration. But this is how I think of it right now. (Thank you Liia for helping me sort this out.)

1. Embraced/ The Conditioned: Book 2

2. The next book I'm writing for the 1NS series

3. The next book in the Superhero series

4. The next book in The Warrior YA series

5. The next Westervelt book

New Cover Goodness....

Coming Soon With Decadent Publishing...

It's Vampire Week At Paranormal Romantics

Trina M. Lee is talking about Vampires at Paranormal Romantics. What type of Vampire do you like? Go there and check it out!

Release Dates...

Coming May 13th with Decadent Publishing!!

Coming June 3rd with Decadent Publishing!!

Coming June 24th with Decadent Publishing

Six Sentence Sunday

Hi everyone!! Happy Mother's Day to those of you who are Mothers! My kids have given me my mother's day gifts from them. They couldn't seem to wait. I got a necklace with one son's picture on it and a card from the others. The baby, well, if he could be happy all day that would be a gift! If the DH has gotten me something, I'm not sure what it as I post this. LOL. But, everyone is healthy and happy and that is mother's day to me!

Anyway, my book Driven: The Warrior Book 2 in my YA series is releasing from Decadent Publishing this Friday. (YAY!) If you'd like to see the first book, Initiation, you can find it here. In the meantime, here are 6 sentences from Driven.

I stood in front of the Warrior Council, shifting my weight from one foot to the other, as I tried to make myself breathe. The Council was filled with people I thought highly of and who had been good friends to me when I‟d needed them, even staging a revolution on my behalf.

Tonight, however, I couldn‟t help but feel they took some of their anger out on me. They had literally started shouting when I had told them what happened down in Genesis. I hadn‟t made the Vampires dig their tunnel up against the wall. It wasn‟t my fault. I simply had the bad luck to be the one who had felt them.

Dear Muse

Dear Muse,

I am in the midst of writing a very complicated, long book that has many twists and turns. I love it. Thank you for giving it to me to write. But, come on, you have can't keep dumping other ideas on me while I'm in the midst of writing it. Chill out for a few more weeks.

Thanks

Rebecca Royce

What's in a name?

I saw on Yahoo this morning that they've listed the top 10 boys and girls names for 2010. You can read the top fifty here if you are interested. I've listed the top ten below.

Top 10 Names for Boys

1. Jacob
2. Ethan
3. Michael
4. Jayden
5. William
6. Alexander
7. Noah
8. Daniel
9. Aiden
10. Anthony

Top 10 Names for Girls

1. Isabella
2. Sophia
3. Emma
4. Olivia
5. Ava
6. Emily
7. Abigail
8. Madison
9. Chloe
10. Mia

When it comes to naming characters, I see the same names over and over again in Romance Novels. For example? Chase. If Romance was to be believed every navy seal, police officer, alpha of a werewolf pack, spy, and cowboy is named Chase. And yet in real life, I don't actually know anyone named Chase. Do you?

In my 1NS book One Night With A Wolf (releasing June 3rd), I named my hero Joe. I know people named Joe. Several, actually, and someone commented to me that Joe was not a Romance Hero name. Now, Joe worked for me and for that character. But what do you think? Should Romance heroes be all Chase? And Romance Heroines all Imogens? Or can Joe and Nancy work too?