Hello from Regan Taylor!

Welcome to my first official blog day on the Writer’s Vineyard! It's one of my favorite kinds of days here in Northern California -- a bit on the chilly side and I'm snuggled in with an oversized sweatshirt, sweat pants and bunny slippers. Totally energizing weather!

Being with Champagne is one of those high points you want to get to in your life but aren’t too sure it’s ever going to happen. I’m thrilled to be with both Champagne and amongst these ultra talented authors.

My first book with Champagne is America’s Hero and is due for release in March 2009. Austin Quinn plays America’s Hero in his movies. Marine Corps Major Cass Winter IS America’s Hero. When Quinn, as Cass calls him, wrangles a ride in the Major’s F/A-18 the twosome end up with more than either ever bargained for.

I loved writing this book—as with most of mine it came to me in dream sequences which meant I spent my days writing about Quinn after dreaming about him through most of the night. I was also very fortunate that while writing it I met two F/A-18 pilots, MC and Razor, and they talked me through the take off, flight and landing scenes as well as just what my characters would find on an air craft carrier.

NanoWrite is coming up in 19 days – the annual November write in that is growing year by year – participants commit to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Two years ago I wrote Indentured Bride and last year was Mistaken Bride. This year I plan to write one of America’s Hero spin off books called Amazonia. Check back next month for an excerpt or two from the book I’m already dreaming about!