Then, I noticed that one of the boxes had a return address I couldn’t make out even if I could find my reading glasses (Greek?) I plunged a knife into that box first and, to my surprise, pulled out a copy of (I quickly looked at the copyright since that was the only text in English) To Sin With a Stranger in Russian.  Cool.  I’d been told the title was a bestseller in Russian, so it was great to have few copies of my very own.

I moved to the second box and slid the knife through the packing tape. Another unexpected box of books.  I plucked up a copy.  This book was in Spanish, so I could read most of the title, How to Propose to a Prince. Lovely purple cover. Double cool.

Third box. There was a warning to open the box carefully, so I peeled off the tape with my inadequately short, dull fingernails. A Mother’s Day card, from my daughter still away at school, sat atop a large basket full of Spring bulbs, just beginning to bloom. Aw. Goodies galore and it wasn’t quite Mother’s Day yet.

It was Christmas in May.

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.

As always, if you would like a signed bookplate or two for your hard copies of my books, just send a SASE to:

Kathryn Caskie Bookplate Offer

P.O. Box 342

Waterford, VA 20197

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.

Buy It Now at (click header for links):

Amazon- Kindle Version,

Barnes & Noble- Nook,

Apple- iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac,

Smashwords- epub, Sony, Kobo, online (most ebook readers)

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.

But don’t fret, there are still two more winners to announce, and they have the option of choosing a book from my backlist or claiming a $10 Borders Gift Card (to buy, hopefully, hint, hint) a copy of The Duke’s Night of Sin from their local Borders or Borders Express, or a Borders.com.  The winner of the drawing on the 11th is Jeanne Sheats and on the 12th is Kiesha Campell.  Kiesha and Jeanne, I will contact you via email for your choice of a book from my backlist or a Borders Gift Card.  Happy holidays, all!

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.

Kathryn Caskie’s Bookplate Offer

P.O. Box 342

Waterford, VA 20197

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.

I just posted a new sneak peek from Chapter Two of The Duke’s Night of Sin. Check it out! While you are there, be sure to enter my new contest. This time there will be two lucky winners. The prize is a signed set of the first two books in the Seven Deadly Sins series. Enter today for your chance to win!

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.

This month Daphne P. of Lanham, Maryland wins a signed set of the first two books in the Seven Deadly Sins series: To Sin with a Stranger & The Most Wicked of Sins AND an e-ARC of The Dukes Night of Sin (in stores November 30th.)!

Be sure to enter Kathryn’s new contest today and you may be the next winner of the first three books in the sexy Seven Deadly Sins series.

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.

Is Envy the most wicked of sins?

Let me tell you a little more about each of the Seven Deadly Sins, and then you decide which is the most wicked of sins.

Now, the Seven Deadly Sins are: Greed, Envy, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust, Wrath and Pride. Okay, I can think of worse sins, but hey, a Pope came up with these as the top seven about a thousand years ago. ‘Nuf said, right?

Greed: Perfect example~ my teetering To Be Read pile(s). I have more books than I can possibly read, more books than anyone can possibly read, and yet I can’t leave the bookstore without half a dozen more. I have so many books that I am thinking of building a green house out of recycled romances. Think I can get a tax credit for that?

Envy:. I named the heroine Ivy in The Most Wicked of Sins after an Envy incident in my neighborhood years ago. A woman down the street had the most amazing garden, and yet I never saw her do any more than water it. One day, the flowers were strewn all over the front yard and my neighbor was busy raking up the mess. She guessed some kids had torn up the garden at night as a prank-but wished she could thank them for pulling up all of the poison ivy too. Now she could work in her garden again. A couple days later, I saw the woman who lived next door to her with a horrible red rash all over her arms and face. True story.

Sloth: It’s 8 a.m., kids are off to school. I am going write to ten pages -right after I check my email. Wow, is it noon already? Okay, eat lunch, then off to write ten pages…after I check out that one site. Crap. Dinner time? (Meant to buy some groceries.) Lazy slug.

Gluttony: There is only so much a human needs to eat, right? Beyond that, it’s excess and after a while, Lycra becomes a way of life. Believe me, I know. (Though, the woman who invented SPANX is up for sainthood. Yup, pretty sure it’s true.)

Lust: Oh, come on. How is this a sin?

Wrath: Okay, you race into a grocery store for some milk, but some guy is blocking the aisle with his cart while he taps on his Blackberry creating a shopper back up (the term for this is Blackberry Jam, I think). Excuse me, please. He doesn’t hear you. Tap, tap, tap. Would you mind if I just squeezed by? Tappity tap. Grr. You are about two seconds from yanking that thing out of his hand and chucking it and him in the lobster tank. That’s wrath.

Pride: Pride is supposed to be the worst sin. I don’t mean like taking pride in your work, or your school, or your kid’s team. We’re really talking arrogance, right? Pride as in Pride and Prejudice. Oh Mr. Darcy. You lovely sinner, you.

There you have it. The Seven Deadly Sins.  What’s next?  Siusan’s story, The Dukes Night of Sin.  Her sin?  Sloth.

Such fun!

Images courtesy of the Barbies that hang out in my office and sometimes star  in my kids’ iPhone movies and school assignments.

(Kathryn’s blog previously posted on Romance Bandits)

©2012 Great Ways to Procrastinate. All Rights Reserved.