American Title III - My Worthy Opponents!!

The American Title III finalists have found each other! We've started an e-mail loop to keep each other company and share the nerves and the fears—and the FUN. (Because as my old boss Chuck Barris used to say, “If it ain’t fun, don’t do it.” I think he was quoting Groucho Marx, but don’t quote me.)

And to make our loop extra special, we've got past AT winners Janice Lynn and Gerri Russell aboard for advice and counsel.

And by the way, the only reason I'm calling the finalists "my worthy opponents" is because I can use the boxing nuns photo!! I love those boxing nuns!

What we really should be called is winners -- even though nobody's won yet. In fact, the contest hasn't even started. But I figure we're all winners because Dorchester Publishing chose our manuscripts to go forward in the contest, so that means they considered all of us worthy of publication, right? Right! So that's pretty cool.

And as finalists in the American Title contest, we’re all going to be in Romantic Times magazine with our book titles and a little blurb about each of us and excerpts from our books, so that’s an exciting blast of publicity right there! So yeah, we’re winners!

Without further ado, and in no particular order, here are my worthy opponents:

Lindsey Brookes - OPERATION: DATE ESCAPE
Kim Howe – ONE SHOT, TWO KILLS
Meretta Pater – RISING SIN
Jenny Gardiner – SLEEPING WITH WARD CLEAVER
Judi Fennell – BEAUTY AND THE BEST
Sally Stotter – DARE YOU
Raz Steel - PASS THE KRYPTONITE
Linda Thomas-Sundstrom – BARBIE AND THE BEAST
Cathy Pegau - HAUNTED

Oh, and ME! Kate Carlisle – THE KAMA SUTRA CHRONICLES

So that’s us. We’ll be hanging tight for the next six months or so, sharing the joys and sorrows of this insanely amazing contest and in the end, one of us will walk away with a publishing contract with Dorchester. Wish us luck!

Cheers!