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Chat with Robin D. Owens
 Robin D. Owens has been writing longer than she cares to recall. Her 
fantasy/futuristic romances finally found a home at Berkley with the issuance of HeartMate in December 2001. She credits the "telepathic cat with attitude" in selling that book. Currently, she has one domesticated cat and one feral, who is thinking about changing his mind on being wild in the Colorado winter (canned food might also have something to do with this). She has secretly admitted to having as many as six cats. Before purchasing her home, she shared apartments with an innumerable parade of hamsters, and 
included one as a sidekick in her second Luna book, Sorceress of Faith.
Naturally, for the flying horses in Protector of the Flight, she had to do hands-on research with horses, and enjoyed every minute!
She loves writing fantasy with romance or romance with fantasy, and particularly likes adding quirky characters for comic relief and leaving little threads dangling from book to book to see if readers pick up on them (usually, yes! Reader intelligence is awesome!).
 She is particularly proud of her Web site, which includes such pages as Worlds (character interviews, cut scenes/chapters/characters, photos of places/things that have inspired her) and Free Your Artist (motivational quote, artist exercise, affirmation and fun links). Her Web site is updated monthly and has excerpts of all her work. Her monthly contest is for fun items that usually tie into her books: jewelry, pet carriers, runes, etc.
 Robin loves hearing from readers, tries her best to respond to any questions and has been known to take reader advice for her work (eg., the mole in Heart Thief). Please e-mail her at
robin@robindowens.com
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She is profoundly thankful to be a recipient of the 2002 Romance Writers of America RITA® Award (like the Oscar in her field) for HeartMate, the 2004 and 2005 PRISM Awards for Heart Thief and Heart Duel, the 2003 Denver Area Science Fiction Association Golden Lungfish Award for Writer of the Year and  the 2004 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Writer of the Year Award. The Luna books continue to be award winners and when she receives such news she's been known to dance around bored cats....
EXCERPTS: http://www.robindowens.com/reads/reads.htm
On Writing & Publishing http://www.robindowens.blogspot.com
2002 RITA(c) Winner
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BOOK BLURB
Alliances and secrets can come back to haunt, as the protagonists in Owens' newest spellbinding tale of the planet Celta discover...heartfelt and riveting - Romantic Times.
DuFleur Thyme is a scientist who's secretly experimenting with time. She'll allow no distractions from her work-not even from a HeartMate. Meanwhile, Saille T'Willow has sent his HeartGift out into the world in hopes of finding his HeartMate, who, it turns out, is DuFleur. Still, DuFleur wants nothing to do with Saille, especially when she discovers that it was his grandmother who brought about her father's ruin. Unfortunately, her body can't help but submit to the passion he stirs in her. But when a scandal threatens Saille's position as head of the family, will DuFleur stand by his side?
FIRST CHAPTER EXCERPT HERE:
http://www.robindowens.com/reads/01Heart%20Dance.pdf
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