Text Box: Susan Shay Text Box: Home            About Susan            Cowboy Excerpt            Manuscripts            Ah-hah!            Blog    Text Box: This one's easy. I had been writing for several years, submitting manuscripts to category publishers. Then a writer friend of mine said she was going to write and submit a book to a new publisher she'd found--Ellora's Cave. They were an epublisher of erotic romance, relatively new on the scene, so I went to their website and downloaded a few books.   Whoa. Smokin hot romance, and I fell in love with the stories I read there. I just knew I had to write a book and submit it to this publisher, because my inner voice was screaming thatt I would fit in there. I wrote the first three chapters lightning fast, then the synopsis, laying out the entire story, then submitted a query. The editor wanted to see more, so I finished the book in a hurry and submitted it. It was the easiest book I ever wrote. My voice just 'fit'. I had always written hot love scenes, and when I was submitting to the other publishers, I had to tone it down. Now I didn't have to. Ellora's Cave published my first book and I had found a home for my style of writing. A true Ah-Ha! moment for me, finding that I write with deep passion. Always have to listen to that 'inner voice'. Jaci Burton www.jaciburton.com Wild Wicked and Wanton—Berkley—May 2007 Show Me—Sanhain—July 2007 Hunting the Demon—Dell—September 2007 Wild Nights (Exclusive Anthology—Berkley—September 2007 Riding Wild—Berkley—February 2008 Demon on the Run—Dell—2008