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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!    

• 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!

• 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!

• 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. 

• August 20, 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, 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!

• March 7, 2002:  The first paperback copies of TRUCK STOP arrived!  Visit our Celebration Dinner. 

• February, 2002:  TRUCK STOP received FOUR STARS from Romantic Times magazine!! 

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, 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?

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: 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