NASCAR Week at Harlequin.com - Barbara Dunlop

Starting May 24th, eHarlequin will be celebrating the 2010 NASCAR continuity series with a week-long feature on the Harlequin blog. I was fortunate to be a part of the novella series with my second NASCAR story, doubly lucky to be in a volume with my friend Dorien Kelly. My heroine Olivia was Dorien’s heroine Claire's best friend. Olivia has Claire to thank for getting her involved in the exciting and close-knit community of NASCAR drivers, crew and families.

I began watching NASCAR races because of my husband’s interest in motor sports, and I quickly learned to appreciate the choreography of pit stops and the skill and dedication of the crew. In Shades of Love: From The Outside (August 2010), my hero Caleb is a pit crew tire changer, and it takes psychologist Professor Olivia Eason quite a while to see past her prejudices against tradesmen. I had endless fun playing with social divide between these characters and watching Olivia learn about life beyond her ivory tower.

If you’re a fellow NASCAR fan, or if you’re simply a fan of a good romance, you might want to wander over to the Harlequin blog at http://harlequinblog.com/.  I’ll be hanging out there this week along with other authors from the 2010 NASCAR series. The editors are hosting a contest where posters can win books. Readers can also try free books, including one free NASCAR book, at http://www.tryharlequin.com/.

If anyone has a question or comment on From the Outside, or on my Montana Millionaires Desire series from this spring, or really on any other topic under the sun, feel free to jump in here. I’ll pick a winner from the posters for the three book Montana Millionaires series. Otherwise, I hope to see you all at eHarlequin. Good luck in the NASCAR contest!

Barbara Dunlop
http://www.barbaradunlop.com/


***Barbara's winner is Mary (miztik_rose)!!  Congratulations, Mary!  Please email me at totebag@authorsoundrelations.com with your mailing address and we'll get the books in the mail to you!  Thanks to everyone else who commented!***

I made it! - Nancy Warren

Hi all,

I was all excited to come and join and then I discovered I couldn't log in to my blogger account. I needed my Google account. I have a Google account? It seems I do. Then I had to reset the password because I've forgotten it. You know, all this Internet stuff is a lot of work and you'd have to be Mr. Memory himself to remember all the passwords. However, I'm here at last and most thrilled to be in the company of so many good writer friends. Lee is such a great friend of romance.

I'm starting to get organized for my trip to Daytona and the official launch of Speed Dating, which is the first of the 2007 officially licensed NASCAR Harlequin romances. Hot, young NASCAR driver, Carl Edwards, driver of the 99 car, appears in Speed Dating and so, of course, the brilliant folks in HQ marketing decided to do an actual speed dating event in Daytona. Carl is confirmed to be there and he's planning to go a few rounds of speed dating. I think we'll have a blast.

I'm chatting about the book, my experiences writing about NASCAR, writing in general and anything else that comes up over at eHarlequin. I'd love to see some friendly faces. That's at http://community.eharlequin.com/webx?13@@.4a842e0f/0

In the meantime, now that I've figured out how to do this, I plan to stop by often.

Nancy
http://www.nancywarren.net
http://www.myspace.com/nancywarrenbooks