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Hi, I'm Allie McCormack. Come on in and
browse around, and check out my first romance novel, Truck Stop, available now on
CD-ROM and paperback. It received a four-star review from Romantic Times
magazine, as well as great reviews/ratings from a number of romance review
sites! I also have a Live
Journal, just for fun :)
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This year I'm determined to see NaNo through to the end!
I've taken the first week of November off,
and a friend has bravely offered to stay with me for the month, cooking and
cleaning and bringing me
endless refills of iced tea! Such friends are worth their weight in gold!
See my Live
Journal for regular (I hope!) updates, and also
my NaNo profile.
Plus of course, my NaNo 2006
webpage here for a synopsis and excerpts of
my new Work in Progress, A Cat For Troy.
NEWS FLASH! 
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July 2006: Writing is slow.
Actually, I haven't been writing much at all until the last few weeks. I'm
still working on Wishes, and am over half done now. I've got some terrific
ideas for new scenes, and I actually have all three of the wishes AND the ending
(including epilogue) written! Hurray! I also introduced Kieran, our hottie
Jinn prince from "A Gift of Jacinth." He may have his own story, if I can
ever sell these first three :) I can't wait to finish this manuscript so I
can get on to Cat's novel, I am sooooo excited, and have some awesome ideas for
her story; I've already introduced the antagonist in "A Cat for Troy" (she's out
to get the hero) in the current manuscript, who also appears in Jacinth as a
walk-on. There is so much a writer can do with shapeshifters!
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June 2005: I'm doing a Book
in a Week challenge with the wonderful folks at BIW, to hopefully get a good
running start on my next manuscript, "Wishes in a Bottle." I
have an excerpt up
now, and also check my
Live
Journal to see how the BIW is coming
along!
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January, 2005: I DID IT!
After almost FIVE years of writing, four finished manuscripts and four file
folders of rejections, I FOUND AN AGENT! Yes, that's right, on Monday,
January 17th, I got The Call from Steve Grant of The
Grant Agency, offering me representation.
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August 20, 2004: I finished
"A Gift of Jacinth," my paranormal genie romance!!! Doing the Happy
Dance!
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July, 2003: I met
the asst. editor at silhouette who has DANCER and
BENNETT'S STORY for lunch in NY. She gave me a revision letter
for Bennett, and discussed changes she'd like to see on Dancer.
She's also interested in my new WIP, A GIFT OF JACINTH and wants me to
submit it when I finish it!
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March 7,
2002: The first paperback copies of TRUCK STOP arrived!
Visit our Celebration
Dinner.
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February,
2002: TRUCK STOP received FOUR STARS from Romantic Times
magazine!!
Below I have synopses of my four finished
manuscripts, and other links :)
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"Hey,
kid..."
Teri
Campbell
is
on
the
run,
on
a
bus
ride
to
nowhere.
An
unscheduled
stop
on
the
wind-blown
plains
of
Wyoming
leaves
her
at
M&J's
Truck
Stop...
and
in
the
arms
of
Mike
Gallagher,
the
young
trucker
who
appoints
himself
her
protector,
who
understands
her
as
no
one
else
could.
But
will
her
new
life
and
her
new-found
love
be
enough,
when
her
events
take
an
unexpected
turn?
...and
can
even
Mike
keep
her
safe
from
the
past
that
threatens
to
reclaim
her?
Click
here to read an excerpt from the first chapter of Truck Stop
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THE
LATEST
REVIEWS!
FOUR
STARS
from
Romancing
the
Web:
Truck
Stop
is
a
sweet,
romantic
story.
One
that
will
leave
a
smile
lingering
on
your
face
for
the
innocence
of
the
young
love
the
hero
and
heroine
feel
for
each
other,
and
a
catch
in
your
heart
when
they
face
their
greatest
trial,
and
their
greatest
danger.
The
story
was
well
written,
and
brings
to
mind
the
intensity
of
passion,
and
fierce
determinations
of
youth.
It
takes
the
reader
back
to
those
wonderful
years
of
a
woman
teetering
on
adulthood,
innocent,
yet
wise
in
the
ways
of
love
as
she
confronts
the
man
she
knows
she's
destined
for.
Four
stars
to
Allie
McCormack
for
a
wonderfully
endearing
romance
and
characters
very
true
to
life.
---
Shadoe
Simmons,
Romancing
the
Web
,
March
2002
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Buy
Truck
Stop
Now!
ISBN
#0-7443-0325-7
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From
amazon.com
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From
Authors
Den
(cheaper
than
amazon,
plus
it's
personally
autographed
to
you!
Just
send
me
email
after
ordering,
telling
me
what
name
you
want
me
to
autograph
it
too).
The
eBook
is
also
available
via
Authors
Den,
...read on your computer
or
laptop
in MS Reader (.lit), Adobe Reader
(pdf)
or
HTML formats.
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DANCER is my second completed novel... I'm trying to find a home for it
amongst the traditional publishing houses for this one and its sequel, Bennett's
Story. It is also the first of my "Brothers of the
Desert" series; four
wealthy,
powerful
men,
each
torn
between
two
cultures,
two
countries...
two
women.
Their
father
is
Sheikh
Rashid,
head
of
an
old
bedouin
tribe
deep
in
the
heart
of
the
Saudi
Arabian
desert.
Their
mother
is
the
lovely
Elyse,
an
independent
American
artist.
They've
been
raised
in
both
worlds,
and
now
each
must
make
his
choice.

He
was
from
Saudi
Arabia...
She
was everything he'd ever wanted. But could he make her understand that she was
the only one for him?
She was a belly dancer...
He was
everything she'd dreamed of, and more. But would he leave her when he discovered
she wasn't the exotic creature he thought she was?
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About
Dancer:
Dancer is a contemporary
romance written in first person. Yuck, you say. I agree. I
personally don't care for romances written in the first person (unless it's Anne
McCaffrey, of course!). I'm not even sure why it came to me to write it in
first person; none of my other (100-something) premises and half-plotted stories
are in first person, and in fact I have never even considered writing one in the
first person! But somehow, that's just what happened... Sarah showed up
one day and needed to have her story written in first person, so... obedient to
my Muse at all times, that's how I wrote it :) Silhouette has currently
shown interest in DANCER for their Special Edition imprint, so clearly my Muse
knows something that no one else does! :) Update:
As
of
October
2002,
Dancer
is
also
written
in
the
third
person,
and
that's
the
version
which
I'm
now
presenting
to
agents
and
publishers.
See
my
Journal
if
you're
interested
in
all
the
gory
details
of
how
I
came
to
rewrite
it
:)
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Quick synopsis:
Dancer
is
a
romance
between
a
belly
dancer
and
a
wealthy
Saudi.
Sarah
is
a
young
woman
who
has
escaped
the
privileged
world
she
was
born
into,
to
forge
her
own
way
in
life.
She
belly
dances
at
an
ethnic
cafe
in
Santa
Barbara,
California
for
the
sheer
joy
of
the
dance.
Khalid,
a
visiting
university
professor
from
Saudi
Arabia,
sees
her
dancing
and
instantly
determines
that
she
must
belong
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