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Visit my NaNo webpage here for a synopsis and excerpts of my new Work in Progress, which this year was "A Cat For Troy," the next in my "Wishes & Dreams" series after "A Gift of Jacinth" and starring the eccentric and somewhat temperamental but lovable Cat as our shapeshifter heroine!

 

     NEWS FLASH!    

• August 21, 2004:  I finished A GIFT OF JACINTH, my paranormal genie romance!!! Doing the Happy Dance!

• 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's Story" 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!

• October 20, 2002:  I finished revising "Dancer" into third person

• August 10, 2002:  I finished CASTLES IN THE SAND (previously entitled "Bennett's Story")

• March 7, 2002:  The first paperback copies of "Truck Stop" arrived!  Visit our Celebration Dinner. 

• February, 2002:  "Truck Stop" received a FOUR STARS review from Romantic Times magazine!!

• November 24, 2000:  I finished DANCER

• October 10, 2000:  I finished TRUCK STOP

• May 8, 2000:  My fledgling manuscript "Truck Stop" won the Undiscovered Writer II Contest!!!!

Below I have synopses of my four finished manuscripts, and other links :)

"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

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

Buy Truck Stop Now! ISBN #0-7443-0325-7 From amazon.com 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.

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, CASTLES IN THE SAND  It is also the first of my "Sons 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 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?

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 :)

Quick synopsis: 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. Sheikh Khalid, a visiting university professor from the Middle East, sees her dancing and instantly determines that she must belong to him. Sarah believes it is only the belly dancer that he desires rather than the shy social