“Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.” ~James Russell Lowell

Happy Sunday!  I hope this has been a wonderful week for everyone.

As always, I’d love for you to share all the things you’re happy about this week.  Large or small, we want to hear your gratitude list!

At the top of my list this week would have to be my delight at finally having & being able to share the cover art for HER LITTLE SECRET, HIS HIDDEN HEIR.  Is it June yet?!  I absolutely cannot wait for this book to come out!

Having the cover has also given me a chance to start posting fun & delicious recipes here at WIPs & Chains.  I’ve only been collecting them, like, forever. :cookinme   Some will be recipes mentioned in HIDDEN HEIR itself.  Others will be simply favorites of mine or recipes I’ve found that sound yummy.  (That way, you guys can try them & let me know, & I don’t have to risk an uncontrollable intake of calories. :ROFL )

And have I mentioned that one of the recipes from the story is going to be printed in the front of the actual book when it’s released?  Oh, yeah.  It’s a really good one, too, so if you can’t think of any other reason to buy the book the minute it becomes available :whistledev buy it for that. :spaghetti

I am also delighted with the progress I’ve made on my next Harlequin Desire release, Book 4 of “Dynasties:  The Kincaids”.  I’m three chapters in already, & the South Carolina research has been so much fun!  I’m also super grateful to the wonderful JoAnn Ross for sending me a bunch of her own Charleston research materials to help me out!

And that about wraps it up for me this week—how about you? :hippie

And now to announce the winner of this week’s Free Book Friday giveaway, Didn’t My Skin Used to Fit? by Martha Bolton…

:getdown   Fedora!!! :getdown

Congratulations, Fedora! :vday Please contact me with your full name & mailing information, & I’ll get your book out to you as soon as I can!

P.S.  Don’t forget that fellow Harlequin Desire author Jules Bennett will be our guest here in The Dungeon on Tuesday, April 5th.  We’ll be putting her on the rack to ask her Mistress Heidi‘s favorite interview questions, & there will be a giveaway included. :umbrella

Sadly, this is no April Fool’s. :scared

A FRIDAY FUNNY

I know a couple of these are going to be a little hard to read, but if you can squint or use a magnifying glass, they’re worth it. :tongue

FREE BOOK FRIDAY

This week’s Free Book Friday offering is Didn’t My Skin Used to Fit? by Martha Bolton, a very funny collection about living, laughing, & loving life after the age of forty. (Something I, of course, know nothing about, but I figure at least one of our devoted Darlings of The Dungeon may be closing in on the Big 4-0.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that. :scared )

To enter the giveaway for this book, simply leave a comment to today’s post that includes the code FBF—for “Free Book Friday,” of course—to let me know you’re interested in the drawing. (U.S. residents only for the prize, please, but everyone is welcome to chat.)

Winner will be announced during our Happy Sunday post on…well, you know, Sunday. Winner is responsible for contacting me with her mailing information—i.e. I will not be contacting you—so be sure to check back in or you might not even know you won! :crying (If prize isn’t claimed within 14 days, another name may be drawn or item may be tossed back into the goody bag to be re-used for a future giveaway.)

P.S. Please note that we have a very special Earth Day Giveaway coming up later this month.  On Friday, April 22nd—which happens to be Earth Day!—we will be giving away this very special Earth Day prize pack:

So stay tuned & be sure to stop back in for details & a chance to win!