My newest release

No Shoes, No Shirt, No Spells (Mystic Cafe Series, Book 1)

Elly Blair welcomes the chance to escape her ex-fiance and job from hell when Grandma Imelda, ready to retire to sunny Florida, calls for her to take over her little southern cafe.

Elly has no idea her grandmother has baked up magic for the unsuspecting townsfolk for thirty years–and now Grandma Imelda insists that Elly use her own hitherto unsuspected magical powers to carry on the family tradition.

But Elly’s new at this stuff. Her dishes don’t turn out as full of smidgens of enchantment and dashes of wishes come true as she’d hoped. When handsome customer Rory Covington takes a bite of the wrong burger, he ends up capturing the attention of every woman in town. Elly doesn’t know if her feelings for Rory are true or based on her magic gone awry.

Tom Owenton is an investigator the National Organization for Magic sent to look into the magical mishap. Unless Elly can reverse the spell, the cafe will be closed permanently. But Tom is more than willing to help Elly out of this magical pickle, but she’s not sure she should accept his help.

Elly only has forty-eight hours to find a way to reverse the spell, or she’ll lose the cafe and never discover if her feelings for Rory are real.

Available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords.

Win an iPad 2!

To celebrate the release of How to Date a Werewolf, I’m giving away an iPad 2. Your odds of winning are great. It all depends on how many people purchase my book. Could be two. Could be two hundred. Either way, those are great odds.

Here are the details: If you buy How to Date a Werewolf sometime in the next month, and email me the receipt from your purchase, I’ll enter you to win an iPad 2. All you have to do is buy my book and you’ll be entered to win! At $1.99, you’ll get a chance for an iPad, and a few hours of entertainment. Well, that’s assuming you enjoy my book. If you think it sucks, then you still get the chance for the iPad. Not bad, no?

Oh, and for second place, I’m giving away a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate. To double your chances of winning, blog, tweet, or announce this contest on facebook, and after you send your proof of purchase, I’ll enter your name in the contest twice. How to Date a Werewolf is available for purchase on Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords.

Please email your receipts to rose@rosepressey.com Sorry, contest open to U.S. residents only. Contest ends May 5, 2011 at 12 p.m. ET.

Website makeover

My website has a new look. I figured out the whole WordPress thing. Well…sort of figured it out. I like WordPress better because the front page will change with every new post. Pretty neat.

The new graphic at the top is from www.clarawallace.com. She did a great job and I highly recommend using her services. Even if you don’t have a website, you can get a twitter background, facebook or even a cute avatar.

I added the graphic to the top of my blog here, too. I’m sure I’ll make more changes in the coming weeks, but I’m happy with the changes so far. Let me know what you think. www.rosepressey.com

Werewolf Heels

Whew. I've been overwhelmed with revisions. I'm working on two manuscripts, but...it's downhill from here. I'm almost finished.

February is almost here and that means one month closer to How to Date a Werewolf. I'm excited and can't wait until it's released.

The other day I stumbled across another author's blog post talking about these fantastic shoes:




I can't remember the author who talked about these heels, but she has great taste. How awesome are they? Werewolf shoes! Unfortunately, until after my hip surgeries, there is no way I could walk in them. But my goal is to wear them after I finish my rehab.

In the meantime, how about flats?



Cute. Perfect for the release of How to Date a Werewolf. Valentine's Day is coming up. Maybe I could hint for a pair? Fortunately, my husband knew what he was getting when he married me and wouldn't be surprised if I asked for werewolf shoes.

What do you think?

Hubby isn't good at hiding gifts

I got the first round of edits for How to Date a Werewolf. I'm excited to be working with this book again and can't wait until it's out next summer. I'm planning some fun contests for its release, of course that's still months and months away. But be on the lookout!

I'm still hoping for good news on another manuscript soon. I've got my fingers crossed. Feel free to cross your fingers for me too, and anything else you'd like to cross.

Are you ready for the holidays? I've already finished my Christmas shopping, but I don't have a lot to buy, anyway. So that makes for easy shopping. My son's almost twenty now, so he prefers cash, although I like having gifts for him to open.

As for gifts to me, I know what my husband bought me already! I have mixed feelings about this. I'd like for it to be a surprise, but...in the past he's been known to purchase presents that were not so great. I mean, it's the thought that counts, but if I can give suggestions it doesn't hurt, right? Anyway, I always end up knowing what I have way before Christmas morning. He drops hints without even knowing it. A good example: the Kindle box that's sitting downstairs waiting to be wrapped as I type this. Yeah, I wonder what he bought me? Ha-ha. Gotta love him.

So what about you? How's your shopping list look? Do you give wish lists to your significant other?

Diet=Torture

It's so easy to pack on the pounds, right? But torture to take them off. I gained twenty pounds over the past five years. Of course, I expected to lose the twenty pounds in a month, right?

Anyway, I've been on a diet for about seven weeks now, and I've lost fourteen pounds. Not bad. I count my calories, and every Saturday, I cheat a little. Let me tell you, I look forward to Saturday every week. I've already decided Thanksgiving day will be my cheat day of the week.

As far as publishing, it's been a roller coaster ride. I turned down an offer for a manuscript, but now I've received another offer. The manuscript is on submission with another publisher, though, and I'm still waiting to hear from them. I'd like to make a decision on it soon. I have four manuscripts finished, waiting for a home. Plus, I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month, so it'll be five soon. Like I said, it's a roller coaster ride.

Not much going on with me.

Hi, y'all! Not a lot going on with me, so that's why I haven't posted. I had an offer for a recent manuscript, but decided to not accept the offer. It was a hard decision to make. My agent will submit the manuscript to other publishers soon, and with any luck, we'll get a different offer.

I'm excited for upcoming Halloween events. Lots of entertaining paranormal shows right now and I'm looking forward to Paranormal Activity 2 next week. Should be good.

I'm finally tackling some of my TBR pile. I highly recommend Accidentally Demonic by Dakota Cassidy (the whole series is great) and A Cast-Off Coven: A Witchcraft Mystery by Juliet Blackwell. I just finished both and loved them.