My April 2009 release, now titled Cosmic Rendezvous has gone through a long iteration of name changes. When I conceived the idea, the story was called Space Cowboy. This is because I got the idea when a good friend, who worked with my husband as an aerospace engineer, moved to Houston to train astronauts on a new spacecraft. We all teased her that she'd move to Texas and meet a Space Cowboy.

My editor didn't like that title because she felt it implied too much of a Western theme. So she and I tossed ideas back and forth, but it was finally something my husband suggested that we both agreed on. Mr. Right Stuff. This is a play on the old astronaut movie The Right Stuff, and, obviously, Mr. Right. We thought this was the perfect title, and I thought the matter was settled.

In July, my husband and I went to Houston to research the book and visit the friend who inspired the story. Apparently, while we were out of town, my editor sent a book cover mock-up with the title Cosmic Rendezvous. The e-mail got lost in the pileup on my return, and I didn't see it until two months later.

Even though I didn't feel it best suited the book, by then it was too late to change it. So, when you see countless references to Mr. Right Stuff in the text of the book, it's because that's what I believed the book would be called while I was writing it.

Anyway, I'm excited to have finally written a book related to my husband's job at NASA. Cosmic Rendezvous is the story of an aerospace engineer, Shelly London, who moves to Houston to train astronauts. Unfortunately, her job is complicated when she clashes wills with sexy hotshot astronaut Lincoln Ripley. Despite their constant bickering, they find it impossible to resist the chemistry between them. But, unexplained accidents plague their spacecraft, and they struggle to find out if their love and their mission will survive. I hope you'll go out and buy Cosmic Rendezvous in April 2009.