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Right, Dolphin Dreams is pretty much on the cusp of "Coming in Spring" and "Coming Soon(TM)".
For those not familiar with this -- Loose Id prefers that authors do not give the exact publication dates for books until they're actually on the website and available, because sometimes they don't come out on the scheduled date. Thus the use of "soon!", which allows it to be suggested that a book will come out in the next month or so without pinning it down to an actual date. This has turned into a running joke on some of the romance mailing lists.
Dolphin Dreams is an example of why, as it was originally scheduled to be out by now but was rescheduled to allow for proper editing of the Valentine-themed novel I was attacked by shortly after turning in the first draft of DD. Which means that it's been out there with blurb and promo excerpts for long enough now that I am getting nagged about when it's coming out. And my website log is showing a lot of people looking for it. So this is a not particularly subtle hint as to the currently scheduled release date.
For those not familiar with this -- Loose Id prefers that authors do not give the exact publication dates for books until they're actually on the website and available, because sometimes they don't come out on the scheduled date. Thus the use of "soon!", which allows it to be suggested that a book will come out in the next month or so without pinning it down to an actual date. This has turned into a running joke on some of the romance mailing lists.
Dolphin Dreams is an example of why, as it was originally scheduled to be out by now but was rescheduled to allow for proper editing of the Valentine-themed novel I was attacked by shortly after turning in the first draft of DD. Which means that it's been out there with blurb and promo excerpts for long enough now that I am getting nagged about when it's coming out. And my website log is showing a lot of people looking for it. So this is a not particularly subtle hint as to the currently scheduled release date.