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Thursday, March 17, 2011

New Book contract! Yippee!!!

Okay, if you belong to my update list you know I dropped some serious hints about the next book coming out. I wrote Touching Ice and left Coal and Zorus trapped inside a life pod together heading toward Earth. I submitted Touching Ice and continued on to write Stealing Coal. A freight carrier heard the life pod’s signal, scooped it up, and discovered two cyborgs aboard. They kept Coal to sell him to fight in brutal death cage matches and tried to gain a huge reward from Earth for Zorus. Instead, Earth Government just took Zorus away without paying them a dime. When I submitted Stealing Coal…I kept right on writing the next book. Ready for the title? Redeeming Zorus – the 6th book in the Cyborg Seduction series has been picked up by Ellorascave!!! I’m so happy about that!!!

I don’t have the cover or official blurb yet but I’ll post it as soon as I can and of course – share the release date when I find out what it will be. Redeeming Zorus was a blast to write. If you read the series – you know redeeming him had to be a challenge! I had a lot of fun with his story. I really hope you’re looking forward to it coming out as much I am.

In other news – I’m writing - of course. I’m a workaholic who loves to write. I get asked a lot what I’m working on. Right now I’m finishing up on the second book related to Mate Set. I’m almost ready to submit it! Yippee! I really hope it gets picked up. I’ll let you know when I hear anything after I sub it. If you follow me on facebook you know I happened to get ‘hijacked’ by a new storyline last month. I wrote and finished the first book. I haven’t submitted it. I’m planning to write the next two books and submit it as a new series. I’m a third of the way through the second book. I don’t want to give anything away but it would be considered a paranormal erotic romance series. I’m hoping to have some good news before this summer and more details to give out. I also get asked a lot about Zorn Warriors series. Yes – I’m planning on writing more books in the series along with more Raines stories. And yes – the cyborgs will return! I wrote out a few chapters of the seventh book already.

While I have you – the question I get asked the most – how do I write so much? It’s easy. I’m truly a workaholic! It’s not that I write fast. I just put in insane hours. I really love what I do. The stories would be stuck inside my head regardless of what I’m doing so I prefer to just type them out. LOL. I’m lucky enough to be at home full time, my kids are all in school, and I have an amazing husband who pitches in constantly to free up a lot of my time. I’m also an insomniac so I don’t require those pesky eight hours of sleep every night.

I hope everyone has a terrific week! Happy St. Pat’s Day!

33 comments:

  1. You have definitely made this a St. Patricks Day to remember for me.... *faintswithshock*

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  2. Awesome news I know the new series will be picked they would be a fool not to your books are totally great. I recommend your books to my friend and my family members. Tell your husband he is so awesome for letting you do what you love so much and sharing you with us
    Happy writing
    Kim

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  3. Redd,

    LOL. I think you'll like the book.


    Kim, thank you and I called him at work to give him your message. Made his day!

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  4. congrats! I have to pick up that series! I loved Raine on Me!

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  5. Hales,

    Thank you! I have reviews up on my website if you want to read them about the cyborgs to see if you'd be interested. They are on bottom of the page.
    http://www.lauranndohner.com/cyborg-seduction-series.php

    I'll be writing more Raines books soon! I'm so glad you loved the book.

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  6. I don't know why I bother putting my pay check in the bank. I should hand it over to you, for your new and future release's :-) I am thrilled the EC will be giving you a release date and cover soon for Zorus's story. May be Sky next ?

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  7. Carla,

    LOL!!! Tooo funny and I sure appreciate you buying my books. Sky is one of the the cyborg books I plan to write.

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  8. Great news Laurann,
    but of course EC want your work!!! (G)

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  9. can't wait for your newer books :-).. I warned my husband already LOL. he'd rather let me spend the money..then to get in the way of my books LOL

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  10. Hi Mel - Thank you. I hope so! I always worry though until I hear back.

    Serena,
    Believe me, I understand! I actually have a seperate account now so Mr. Laurann won't wince over what I spend on my love of books! LOL!

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  11. I only found you about 3 weeks ago, I have read every one of your books and cannot wait for more. I love all the series..love your style.

    write, publish, write, publish- ok so I read alot & read fast.... write, publish..

    thanks

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  12. blwalker - Thank you! I'm so glad you read my books and loved them. It makes my day hearing that! : )

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  13. LOL..we only have one bank..so he has to take it LOL.. but He loves his star trek and I love my books ..lol.. that's the biggest reason he doesn't say no..

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  14. I can't wait for you to continue THE ZORN WARRIORS SERIES. I started with the 3rd book in the series and ended up buying the rest of them. Now I'm a fan of yours. I started having withdrawal symtoms so I just purchased one of the Cyborg books and hope I like it the way I do the Zorn.

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  15. Serena,

    We have one bank too but I had him open a side account set that is just mine. Every check I put a percentage of into. That way I've got money to use for business purposes or to buy books with so it's not draining our shared account. LOL! I married a Trekie too. I bought him a big screen TV and an Xbox 360 to amuse him when I write. LOL! Our husbands sound a lot alike.

    Annon -
    I hope you enjoy the cyborg series. Thank you for giving them a try. I have started to work on a Zorn book. I'm planning to write more of them. : )

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  16. Yeah! Can't wait to read Zorus' story. He's going to take a bunch of redeeming.

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  17. I am so glad I came across your books, I read one and immediately bought all available at EC. I just read Coal's story and totally enjoyed the female bot! I look forward to Zorus' story and hopefully Onyx and Blackie's. Someone needs to really smack Blackie hard! :-)

    Appreciate what you do, and please continue!!

    Shirley

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  18. Hi Shirley,

    Thank you. I'm glad you read my books. That's fantastic! I do plan to write more cyborg books.

    Laurann

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  19. LOL.. they do sound alike... I got my husband a xbox 360 so he doesn't bother me while I'm reading LOL plus he wanted it for the star trek game that u can get for it ( not shocked LOL) he even has star trek on his Ipod LOL..and he tries to say I go over broad on reading hehe but going crazy isn't a bad thing to me LOL

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  20. Serena,

    LOL! Too funny. I used to read a lot more but now writing keeps me pretty darn busy. I managed to read this weekend since I caught a cold from our kids. I got about 8 books down on my TBR list. Now a hundred more to go! My husband loves to read too though so he understands my love of books.

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  21. So wanted to read Ral's Woman is it really only an e-reader?

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  22. Anon,

    Ral's Woman and the second book in the series, Kidnapping Casey are in a print book called Loving Zorn. It's available at www.JasmineJade.com, Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. I also have Burning Up Flint (first cyborg book) is in Print. Here's a link to amazon so you can see it.
    http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Zorn-Elloras-Cave-Aeon/dp/141996108X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_12

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  23. When will stealing coal be out on the kindle? *pout*

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  24. Anon,
    From what I understand they get sent there about a week after release and then it depends on how busy they are before it gets loaded. I check every day. So far I haven't found it yet.

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  25. I ordered it! Thank you for your quick reply.

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  26. I check everyday on my kindle for Stealing Coal, but still no luck. Hopefully soon.... :D Thanks for writing great books.

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  27. Anon,

    I'm checking too. Thank you for reading them! :)

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  28. Arrgghh....kindle doesn't have Stealing Coal so bought it right away from Elloras Cave..straight to my desk top. But I have ALL the others on my kindle...I am such a noob at technology that I guess I will have to buy Stealing Coal twice..:D.Are you going to RT Convention in LA? It would be great to meet you!

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  29. Hi Carol,

    I'm sorry it's not on Kindle yet. SIGH. Sometimes they take forever to load books and sometimes they are right up there.

    I'm only 29 miles from RT this year and I want to go. I have to find a babysitter. I got one a YEAR in advance for Romanticon! LOL. Nobody wants to watch my 3 kids and I need Mr. Laurann to drive me since after dark I'm as blind as a bat unless I hire a driver to take me. LOL. Something to look into but I'm sure going to try to make it! I'd love to meet you!

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  30. WOW..only 29 miles..I will definately think of you while I'm there. I live near Temecula so we, my neighbor and I, are getting a hotel room. I have to check out Romanticon to thank you for being a write-aholic. Thank god there isn't a 12 step program for that.As for the three kids...aren't they fun? I have two boys and I laugh everyday at something they do...they are after all male children, so it's either laugh or shake my head and cry. Thanks for your hard work, I love it!

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  31. Hi Carol,

    You really should check out Romanticon. Mr. Laurann and I went last year. We had the best time ever! We're going EVERY year now. It was so laid back, relaxed, and I got to meet so many people. It wasn't frantic so I actually got to know people! LOL. We have 4 kids total, 3 girls and our 'baby' is 6 now and he's our only boy. I have to say I never had to call 911 until him. LOL. When he was 3 he decided to leap off a chair and struck the coffee table. Knocked out COLD, big instant lump on his temple...yeah. 911 and an ambulance ride. Scared the crap out of me! He ended up being fine. THICK skull but yeah. Boys! LOL. Then 2 years ago he jumped off his bed and hit a puzzle table in his room. Emergency room trip and they had to glue part of his face instead of stitches. I hope to make it to RT (babysitter needed - LOL!!!) I sure do love to write!!!

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  32. i just want to ask if you are planning a book about Vollus and his Human Cathy(Melting Iron) I really want to know what hapened to them.

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  33. Ral's woman was the first book by you that I read and boy, was I HOOKED! I've read all of the Zorn Warriors series & I really loved it! In-between Zorn books I picked up Burning up Flint and found another wonderful Cyborg series to read. I'd read all of Kaitlyn O'Connors cyborg books and never thought I'd find another cyborg series that I'd equally like BUT I HAVE!!! I too waited over a week for Kindle to get Stealing Coal and boy I downloaded it as soon as I saw it & started reading right away. I wasn't disappointed. Can't wait to see Korus get his butt taken care of. Hope to see Sky get his story! Thx for your wonderful writing. It gives me a place to immerse myself in & get away from the stresses in my daily life. Keep up the good work! Pam

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