News! Sins and Virtues.....

I've been swamped lately, so my apologies for letting the dust collect on this blog! Thanks to everyone who has been emailing me asking me about the next book in the Sins and Virtues series. I have news!!! No cover yet, but news!

So, some of you might have heard that the Spice line from Harlequin was streamalined into part of the HQN umbrella. It's still going to be the same old Spice that readers love, but I think (and please don't hold me to it) that the only difference will be that they are coming out in mass market paperback. As I was told, this was done to increase the ability for wider distribution. Erotica as a whole is a niche market, so, to get their books out to more readers, they've merged. So, that said, that tipped back my release date beacause my Brethren Guardian series was already slotted for release. So, book two is Vanity, and it's releasing Jan, 2013. I know, crazy long wait. But, usually HQN releases a few weeks early, so you might be able to get a copy in December, 2012.

I know readers are anxious, but I hope you'll find it worth the wait. Vanity is a beautiful dark Fey, and as I've promised readers who've emailed me, you will get to see more of Envy, and that bad boy Gluttony as well! I will post the cover, and little juicy excerpts to keep you going until then, I promise!

So, because I've sat down and started plucking away at Vanity, and because we're spending more time in the Unseelie Court in his book, I've been surfing around the net looking for inspiration. Well, I've found it. In my mind, the Unseelie Court is this fantastic, erotic and sensual version of an Aruthrian court. In my mind its clear what it looks like, but readers can now see what is pretty much going on in my grey matter. I think this girl has some mad skill! This video is just gorgeous, and its everything the Unseelie Court is.

Enjoy it! And I will keep you updated as we move along! Thanks so, so much for all your support! It's SO appreciated!
Be Well!

Oooh la la!!!

Is this not a lovely cover for the French translation version of Sinful. And it has a new title, too, which I am loving!

The colors are pretty, although purple and mauve never really occured to me while writing Sinful, but I have to say these colors give a nice feel. I love, love, the way that very male beringed hand is pressing against her breast, beautiful, and very Wallingford if you ask me.

I think it is a good reflection of Matthew and Jane, and the vibe and color scheme are making me think fall. I love fall....my fav time of year!

So, what do we think, a keeper
Hope everyone is having a lovely long weekend.

Pride and Passion Giveaway!

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Pride & Passion

by Charlotte Featherstone

Giveaway ends October 31, 2011.







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Just a girl in the world! Please Read

Yep, that's me. Just an ordinary girl, working for a living, helping to support my family (and yeah, as much as he hates to admit it, I do make waaaay more money that Mr. Charlotte) I'm educated, I'm a labour and delivery room nurse, supporting women through the most wonderful time of their lives--and sometimes the most tragic moments of their lives. I'm a writer, writing whatever I want, embracing love and romance, and the beauty of sexual relationships. I'm a wife--whose husband treats me like an equal, a mother of a daughter, who was was raised for the first five years of her life by a devoted father because she was too ill to go to daycare, and because I made 2/3 more than what my husband made. I'm a daughter, raised by two parents who made me think for myself, who taught me life lessons, and inner strength and conviction, who did not raise me any different from my two brothers. I'm Canadian, born into a country where rights are for both sexes, all colours, all religions. And thank God for that, because if I had not been, my world, and my life might have been drastically different.

It's amazing,and heartbreaking to me that girls in developing countries, and third world countries are still treated without dignity and basic human rights. There are millions of women and girls out there who could make a difference in their family, their village, their city, and their country if they were only allowed to contribute but cannot because they were born female.

It burns my rear end whenever I think of it. I look at my daughter and see a future, a bright future with lots of chances to follow hopes and dreams, and then I think of the female babies being born today around the world and know that they will not have the same chances.

We can do something about this, and I'm going to! In the coming months I'll be announcing the release of Pride and Passion, and also Temptation and Twilight. Those books contain two very strong, independent women, struggling with their sex, and the ideals of men in Victorian England. They overcome and they come out winning! What better way to showcase the empowerment of women, but with Lucy Ashton and Elizabeth York. And what better way to benefit Because I Am A Girl than by sharing proceeds of my royalites with this fabulous group!

More to come on what I will be doing, and more on tCanada's plan, Because I am a Girl to come. But just so you know what I'm talking about, have a quick peek at their introduction video. Or visit, http://plancanada.ca/becauseiamagirl?WT.mc_id=BIAAGFY11GS18 to see what they're about.

I really want to make a difference, and give women and children the freedom and gifts that we in developed countries enjoy, but more than that, have come to expect! I will hope you will join me in the coming months, because after all, we are all just girls!