Hi. It's been a pretty busy fall, starting off with finishing my fifth book for St. Martin's Press, then doing final copy edits for my fourth book, which will be in the bookstores early January 2009, then right on to preparing a talk for the Sweet and Spicy 2 conference for romance writers which took place in Ottawa.

The following weekend, I was off to Toronto for my nephew's wedding and Canadian Thanksgiving with my family! In the meantime, my house is torn up because of replacing windows and floors. Next, the roof!

Many of my readers have asked me when my books will be available in eBook format. Last January, SWING was released as an Amazon Kindle eBook and is now available on Fictionwise.com. Now, both BLUSH and TWIN FANTASIES are available in Kindle format, too!

New Release

BLUSH was released in July. You can find it in all major bookstores and a large number of independents.

Upcoming Release

SIX will be released on January 6, 2009. It's available for presale on most of the on-line bookstores (Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Chapters, etc.). You can also place an order for it in the major bookstores and most independents.

News

Bestsellers!

All three of my books (BLUSH, SWING and TWIN FANTASIES have been in the Top 30 Contemporary Romance books on Amazon.com and all three were in the top 3500 of all books on Amazon.com. In fact, both BLUSH and SWING made it to #2 on the Erotic Fiction bestsellers list!

Second Printing!

After just over a month on the market, BLUSH went to a second print! (The same happened with SWING in February.)

Recognition

My books have won a few awards. SWING won the HOLT Medallion Award of Merit, and was a finalist in the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence. TWIN FANTASIES also won the HOLT Medallion Award of Merit, and Honorary Mention in the Passionate Plume competition.

More Sales

In September, I signed a new contract with St. Martin's for another three books. I'm currently in the planning stage for my sixth book for St. Martin's (the first of the new contract) and will deliver the final manuscript to my editor at the end of March.

Exciting news as part of the new contract is... I'll be writing three books a year now! Watch for releases every four months starting in 2010!

In my last newsletter, I mentioned that St. Martin's sold the Russian rights to TWIN FANTASIES. Since then, TWIN FANTASIES has been released in Spain with the title DOS MEJOR QUE UNO. I love the cover!

Contest

Please tell your friends about my web site draw, where they can win a beautiful necklace. You can enter, too! The link is:

http://www.OpalCarew.com/fun/index.php

A Request

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