Sonja Foust, Romance Author

I have big news! I’ve sold Shooting Stars to Whiskey Creek Press! Just signed the contract today, so I don’t have any details other than that, but you can be sure I’ll be keeping you in the know about my release date and official information.

Shooting Stars is definitely a book of my heart, and I’m so glad to have placed it. It’s about a former Hollywood A-lister who’s now living a reclusive life in Wyoming and the ambitious lady paparazzo who ends up in his helicopter on an ill-fated vacation. He’s rich and powerful and she’s smart and spunky, and it was just such great fun to write. This will be my first published full-length novel, so that’s another exciting aspect of this whole deal!

Did I mention I’m excited?

Here’s the banner I did for it when I was writing the draft for NaNoWriMo 2007:

If you think just because you sold your book, you’re never going to have to pitch it again, you’re wrong. Go over to Promo-ho.com today and get some tips on your elevator pitch.

My elevator pitch for the past 2 weeks wherein I have not been blogging would go something like:

Sonja is going nuts. Really, really nuts. She is trying to write her NaNoWriMo novel but is pretty much made of fail right now. She admits that she will probably not get it done in November. And will not win. Again. She’s getting used to it though, so the sting of failure isn’t quite as harsh this year. She does have good excuses, but you know the drill: “Excuses are like [insert vaguely insulting body part name here]. Everyone has one and they’re all full of [some kind of gross body function byproduct].” She hopes you will not abandon her blog for something new and shiny, at least not until the end of November, after which time she will have no excuse not to resume blogging. (If she doesn’t start blogging after Thanskgiving again, you are allowed, nay, encouraged to leave her sorry butt behind.)

I’ve been working for a few weeks on a redesign and reorganization of Promo-ho.com, and I’m pleased to announce today that it’s ready to go! Check it out, and if you have a moment, leave me some feedback. I’d love to hear about what you like, what you don’t like, what needs to be updated, and what kind of articles you’d like to see in the future. Proud to be a Promo Ho!

Wrote this a while back for an Amazon.com guide, but thought I’d share it here, too, since it’s that time of year!

Want a pre-Halloween stroll through the Voodoo festival town of Mojo, Louisiana? Try Stephanie Bond’s spooky yet hilarious In Deep Voodoo. You’ll meet Penny, town health food nut; B.J., sexy Cajun P.I.; and of course all the creepy so-and-sos who come out for the annual Voodoo festival at the beginning of October.

In the mood for an old black and white classic to snuggle down with? (more…)

I’m famous! My blog got on the new 30THREADS commercial on one of my local channels, NBC17. Check it out, my blog shows up at the end of the image scrolling through a bunch of blogs, about 9 seconds in:

And in case you missed the second it was up, here’s a picture I took of my TV screen on my iPhone last night:

How awesome is that?