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Triple the procrastination, triple the fun

My husband and I share a desk—he owns an HVAC & electrical company and I write. It’s not so bad for me, since I can take my laptop to an uncluttered space while still having a place to toss my paper scraps and sticky notes. But sometimes—usually after a three-hour hunt for some essential document—my husband tells me it’s time to clean the desk.

Desk cleaning day can be fun because it offers a triple dose of procrastination. 1) While I can pretend to plot in my head, I can’t actually write while filing, can I? 2) Since I’m stuck at the desk—and desktop—anyway, I may as well sign into IM, right? And 3) I can actually procrastinate during my procrastination by sifting through unearthed artifacts.

What kind of things lurk in the bowels of a writer’s desk piles?

ON THE EDGE released today!

I’m thrilled the second book in my Devlin Group series is now available! It was wonderful to revisit characters from 72 Hours and meet new ones as well! If you like your romance spiced with a liberal dash of adrenaline, I hope you’ll check out On the Edge.

When an explosion rocks the Devlin Group, two agents must risk everything to save them all. Book 2 of the Devlin Group series.

Tony Casavetti emerges from an undercover assignment only to be summoned to NYC by Charlotte, the Devlin Group’s executive administrator. When he arrives, he finds out she may be ruthlessly efficient, but his assumption about her being matronly was dead wrong.

Charlotte Rhames has it all—looks, wealth and the respect she craved. But an attack on the Devlin Group throws her back into the pit of sex, money, and murder she’d crawled out of.

With Tony’s life at stake, how far is she willing to fall?

You can read an excerpt here!

Secret Babies in the Closet

Not since Ignorance and Want peered out from the shadows of the Ghost of Christmas Present’s robe have so many people recoiled from children as they do from secret babies. (Well, okay, there was Damien. And Rosemary’s Baby, and that girl from The Exorcist. Oh, and…never mind.)

Mocked, scorned, shunned, and starring on numerous pet peeve lists, secret babies would seem to be unwanted. And yet, their numerous appearances in the most popular lines from Harlequin and Silhouette paint a different picture entirely. As I heard Leslie Wainger say on a conference tape, “Hooks are hooks because they sell, people.” From personal experience, Forever Again and 72 Hours are probably neck and neck as the favorites among my readers. Both have secret babies.

So what’s the deal with them?

In the Spirit excerpt

IN THE SPIRIT by Shannon Stacey

A holiday paranormal romance

Available now from Samhain Publishing

When a holiday-loving ghost tries to rock around the Christmas tree with a Grinchy guest, will they both wind up on the “naughty” list?

Even though Zach Roberts died in an incident involving a string of lights and an inflatable Santa, he’s determined to deck the halls in a big way. But being trapped in a rental cabin with the Ghost of Christmas Overkill isn’t on Jessica Newton’s bah-humbug agenda.

Together they discover it’s nice to be naughty, but can he help her find her holiday spirit?

Excerpt:

“I’m the ghost,” the man said cheerfully. “I live here.”