Blah, Blah, Blah…Spring 2008


Thanks for visiting my new website. 

Some of you may know me as Dianna Love Snell, the name I wrote my first book under.  That one book – WORTH EVERY RISK – has given me some of my greatest firsts as a writer – my first and only Golden Heart and Daphne du Maurier awards, my first agent, my first sale, my first editor, my first book signing and…my RITA Award. 

My next publications will be single title stories and both publishers liked the idea of using a shorter name so we ended up with Dianna Love, my maiden name.  My husband, Karl Snell, is always supportive and happy with the new tag on my books.

I have Guest Blogging invitations and will put the dates here soon, but in the mean time, please visit the blogs where I’ve been already –
November 23, 2007 – Dianna and Mary Buckham visited with the Fog City Divas - http://fogcitydivas.typepad.com/dishing_with_the_divas/2007/11/index.html
November 9, 2007 – Dianna guest blogged on the Romance Bandits Blog - http://romancebandits.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
One IMPORTANT News flash – You must visit Brenda Novak’s auction to raise money to help those with Diabetes and, please God, find a cure.  I’ve been involved in this auction for a number of years as have many other authors.  You’ll have a chance at some amazing gifts, but also some opportunities to meet and/or dine with an author you probably won’t see offered anywhere else (I’ve got a special page there with my buddies Sherrilyn Kenyon and Mary Buckham). Got to www.BrendaNovak.com

2007 was one very busy year. I did some mural painting for a great group – The McRae Agency – in their new digs at the top of the Equitable Building in downtown Atlanta, GA.  And I do mean the top – they have the entire floor.  They wanted a carousel design on the curved wall in their reception area.


Karl and I made a 4000 mile motorcycle ride on our bikes (him on a BMW 1200 GS and me on a BMW 1150RT).

 

We shipped the bikes to Sacramento, California where one of my good author friends Brenda Novak was gracious enough to play hostess and get us to the shipping company to pick up the bikes. 

 

We rode through the most incredible trees on earth (that I’ve seen) – giant redwoods – and traveled along the spectacularly rugged coast of northern California up to Oregon. 

 

 

 

 

 
From there we headed inland just a bit to reach Port Townsend, Washington where my nonfiction writing partner Mary Buckham and her husband Jim live.  Wow, what a cool town if you’ve never been there.  Karl and I stayed in the hotel next to the bar where An Officer and A Gentleman was filmed. 


We struck out again after a couple days and rode east across the top of the country, angling down to hit Mount Rushmore at one point.

 

 

 The entire trip was 10 days filled awesome vistas and rides that are every motorcyclist’s dream…like the “Going to the Sun Road” in Glacier National Park where we rode up from sea level to 6646 feet up the mountains to the pass at the top. 

I finished out the year with KCON (Kenyon Convention hosted by Sherrilyn Kenyon) in New Orleans then spent the December holiday visiting family and friends.

2008 brings a lot of great news and excitement…

The nonfiction book I co-wrote with Mary Buckham sold!! The Break Into FictionTM Writer’s Notebook: Simple Steps to Complex Novels will be released in 2009.

The romantic suspense I co-wrote with Sherrilyn Kenyon – PHANTOM IN THE NIGHT – will be out June 10, 2008!

My debut paranormal novella – MIDNIGHT KISS GOODBYE – will be part of the DEAD AFTER DARK anthology to be released by St. Martin’s Press December 2, 2008.

See you soon with more news.  Thanks again for stopping by.


Dianna