The German edition of NIGHT FALLS DARKLY, titled WENN DIE NACHT BEGINNE, releases November 2012 through publisher Egmont!

I’ll share release dates and covers as soon as I can. I look forward to hearing from German readers!

What does that mean? With new ideas, I usually work up a 12 to 14 page synopsis, outlining the story, and zap it off to my agent so she can let me know her thoughts. Then, after discussing, I start writing pages!

If any of you have sent e-mails, I apologize for not responding! My desktop computer (where I receive my Kim Lenox emails) is dead because of issues associated with an evil program that came with my Blackberry. I attempted to uninstall it, and, well, you know how that is. Some programs are like the Dark Bride (reference, Shadow Guard Book 2: So Still the Night) and they don’t want to EVER LET YOU GO!

So my desktop is at the computer hospital. Crocodesigns is helping me access my e-mails on my netbook, so soon I’ll be up and running. 

Good news! The Shadow Guard series has sold to a German publisher. I’m extremely excited about that, and I’ll share more details in the near future.

I hope that you, blog reader, are doing well. As always, share in the comments section what you’re reading and recommending right now! I love book recommendations and read a lot myself. I just finished a non-romance, DUMA KEY by Stephen King, and it was fantastic.

Tomorrow I’ll share what new romance I’m reading.

Is everyone enjoying the autumn season? I know I am. It’s my favorite, and I love everything about it. Cooler weather. Pumpkins. Halloween!

To celebrate, I’m going to do a giveaway! I noticed that a lot of you come to my website searching for NIGHT FALLS DARKLY, the first book in the Shadow Guard Series. You may know that it is no longer available at Amazon or Barnes & Nobles or other bookstores. But guess what? I’ve got a stash.

I’ll run a contest until, ohhhh…let’s say FRIDAY, October 22nd, and I’ll give away four (4!) copies of NIGHT FALLS DARKLY to anyone who leaves a comment here on the blog. All you have to do is let me know the BEST book you’ve read in recent memory. I ask because it’s readers who are visiting the website, and I’m sure that they, like myself, love to get book recommendations. (You don’t even have to say it’s one of my books!)

Your recommendations also let me know who I need to invite to come and guest blog at www.silkandshadows.com!

So tell your friends! Free books! Easy contest.

If any of you are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area this weekend, I will be hosting a table at the Buns & Roses Literacy Tea. You can come meet me and lots of great authors, and get some signed books!

To find out more at www.bunsandroses.org

I’d love to see you there!

For now, if you’re looking for an excerpt of DARKER THAN NIGHT, click on my BOOKS tab, or visit my blog. If it’s a contest you seek (free books?) check out my blog, where there are details on entering to win the first two books in the Shadow Guard series, NIGHT FALLS DARKLY and SO STILL THE NIGHT! It’s easy, and I’m giving away five sets. But enter soon! The contest ends on April 10th! So click that Blog tab if you dare!

This week I’ll be announcing the winners from one contest, run through the SILK AND SHADOWS blog site, and then open up a new contest where five lucky winners will win copies of both NIGHT FALLS DARKLY and SO STILL THE NIGHT!

Also, be sure to swing by Silk and Shadows this week and comment on any of the posts. You’ll be entered to win a copy of Sharon Ashwood’s novel, SCORCHED!

It’s me, Kim the Bad Blogger. I’ll spare you the excuses except to say that the Evil Dayjob has been excessively Eveeel lately.

But I have received the first review for the third book in the Shadow Guards trilogy! Thank you to Fresh Fiction who says:

“This Shadow Guard installment is rich with tension, desire, betrayal and a strong sense of friendship.”

Click here for the full review!

Gorgeous man, right? I mean book. Woo hoo!

Look for Kim’s and other Houston area romance authors’ Valentine’s Day romance suggestions in the Houston area January edition Lifestyle magazines.

Kim has joined up with four other Signet authors — Allison Chase, Annette McCleave, Jessa Slade and Sharon Ashwood — to blog at Silk & Shadows! Come visit her there!

Kim is excited to share that she’ll be writing a third book in the Shadow Guard Series, to be released in 2010.

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July 2008 – Contest Time! What are the names of her hero and heroine from NIGHT FALLS DARKLY? Enter the Contest here. At midnight, August 31st, Kim’ll draw a winner to receive an Advance Reading Copy of NIGHT FALLS DARKLY.

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Fall 2008 – NIGHT FALLS DARKLY will be a featured alternate selection with both the Doubleday Book Club and Rhapsody Book Clubs!