What's not to like about romance author Susan Elizabeth Phillips? You just gotta love her! She writes fabulous books. She is a New York Times Bestselling Author. She has won more awards than I can count including being inducted into Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 2001. She is funny. She is witty.
And she has video taped a letter to her fans. What a marvelous thing to do! I liked it so well that I am sharing it with my readers as well!
A Video Letter from Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Frequently Asked Questions - from Susan Elizabeth Phillips website.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips Facebook Page.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Christina Dodd's Storm of Visions
Today I received a newsletter from Christina Dodd announcing that her novel Storm of Visions was on the shelves.Order STORM OF VISIONS and book two, STORM OF SHADOWS, from Amazon.com, and you'll receive a five percent discount!
Christina included a free excerpt of Storm of Visions in her newsletter which I am passing on to my readers.
Caleb leaned, shirtless, against the kitchen counter and watched as Jacqueline cleaned the cut she'd put into his ribs with her scissors. It was jagged, it hurt like hell — and he felt a solid sense of pride in her accomplishment. He'd taught her to fight like that, and no man alive had ever done a better job of spitting him.
Of course, no man alive distracted him like a half-naked Jacqueline. After sex on the bathroom floor and sex on the lumpy mattress, she had showered — no sex in the shower, she had locked the bathroom door and wedged the towel cabinet behind it — and donned faded plaid pajama bottoms and a clean, baggy, short sleeved t-shirt. He supposed that was her naïve way of saying Hands off. Instead she looked sweet and clean, and smelled of soap and Jacqueline.
"You need stitches," she said for the dozenth time.
And for the dozenth time, he replied, "The scissors are new and clean, my tetanus shot is up to date, and I can get antibiotics in New York City. Just put a butterfly bandage on it. Then start packing."
She dabbed the paper towels into the basin of warm water, then wiped the area around the wound. She didn't look up, didn't respond.
His gaze shifted to fingerless leather gloves she wore. They were well-made, almost the color of her skin, and supple enough to move as she moved. "You didn't used to wear gloves all the time. Why wear them at all?"
"You heard me today at the winery. It's a combination of style and protection."
"Protection?" He mocked her openly. "From the corkscrew, you mean."
This Jacqueline was wiser than the teenager he'd known, less likely to rise to the bait, more inclined to take her time in answering him — or not answer him at all. "How did you find me?" she asked.
He laughed sharply, and winced at the pain. "We never lost you." He had tracked her for the two years of her exile.
She picked up the scissors.
Although perhaps he could have been more tactful about saying so. He tensed, prepared to fend off another attack.
She glanced up and saw him watching warily. "Don't worry. I'm not going to stab you again."
2009 Press Release (from Christina Dodd's Website Press Room)
From Reader To New York Times Bestseller
www.christinadodd.com
Readers become writers, and Christina Dodd has always been a reader. As she was growing up, she read everything, but discovered, because she likes humor, that she liked romance best. In romance, the relationship between one man and one woman holds center stage, and that’s always good for a laugh.
A woman wants things like world peace, a clean house, and a deep and meaningful relationship based on mutual understanding and love. A man wants things like a Craftsman router with attachments, undisputed control of the TV remote, and a red Corvette which will miraculously make his bald spot disappear.
So while Dodd was working as a draftsman, she would read during the lunch hour, go back to work to design a sawmill, and plot the conclusion of the story in her mind. The book never ended like that, and she liked her endings better. When her first daughter was born, she told her husband she was going to quit work and write a book. It was a good time to start a new career, because how much trouble could one little infant be?
Quite a bit, it seemed. It took ten years, two children and three completed manuscripts before her first novel, CANDLE IN THE WINDOW, was published.
In the eighteen years since, her novels have been translated into twenty languages, featured by Doubleday Book Club, recorded on Books on Tape for the Blind, won Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Golden Heart and RITA Awards as well as Borders Books Awards for outstanding sales, and been called the year’s best by Library Journal. Dodd is a regular on the New York Times Bestseller List and has been a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle (11/18/05, # 13 Down: Romance Novelist named Christina.) Publishers Weekly praises her style that "showcases Dodd’s easy, addictive charm and steamy storytelling."
Dodd’s new releases for 2009 include DANGER IN A RED DRESS (3/09, four weeks on the New York Times), as well as STORM OF VISIONS (8/09) and STORM OF
SHADOWS (9/09), the first two books in her new paranormal series, the Chosen
Ones. Also in 2009, in July, her classic historical, MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH will
be re-released, and in October, TROUBLE IN HIGH HEELS and TONGUE IN CHIC will be re-released as DANGEROUS LADIES.
Dodd is married to a man with all his hair and no Corvette, but many Craftsman tools.
Visit http://www.christinadodd.com/ for more details.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Catherine Wade is guest blogger today!
Today I am presenting author Catherine Wade to you. Catherine and I are friends at Facebook. When I visited Catherine's website, her slogan read, "Romantic Comedy With An Attitude!" Naturally this made me want to know more about Catherine since I, too, have written and published a romantic comedy (No Lady and Her Tramp) that definitely has attitude! I asked Catherine how she got started with her writing career. Here is what she had to say in her own words.
And I Owe it All to the Flu
First off, thanks to Kristie for inviting me here today take part in her guest blogger section! I’m thrilled to be here!
So Kristie asked me how I got started writing, and I had to think back a bit. A looong bit. You see, I started this madness when I was thirteen years old. I had a terrible case of the flu, and when I couldn’t sleep, my dad would sit with me and we’d watch Star Trek reruns. Yup. Star Trek. Being thirteen, I was a little hormonal, so I fell like the Hindenburg for one of the characters. Being me (a little different than your average girl), I fell for Scotty. Not Checov, Kirk or even Sulu. Scotty.
Even after I felt better, I’d sneak out of bed and watch. I was so obsessed with James Doohan that I started “writing” myself into the episodes as his girlfriend. Up to this point, it was all in my head, but one day I sat down with a packet of notebook paper and started writing down some ideas I had for a new episode. I kept writing and writing until soon I had over one hundred hand-written pages.
That’s when my mom found it. I was mortified! I mean it was a silly little fantasy indulgence, and my mom was not very tolerant of anything so frivolous. But she surprised me. She pulled out an old Royal typewriter she had used in college – and let me tell you those keys were stiff – and told me to type it up. I did. And another hundred or so pages to go with it.
Then my teacher found out about it.
She let me use class reading time to work on the book. I’d go home and type what I’d written at school, then bring it back to her to read the next day. She decided what I needed to do was submit it to a state writing competition, but there was a catch. I had to finish what had now become a novel within a month. At the tender age of fourteen, I was under my first deadline.
I set out my goal, knowing I’d have to edit and retype the whole thing. And I did it, too – with two days to spare. I was so proud handing her that manila envelope, all addressed and ready to go to the contest. I just knew this was my first step into the big world of publishing.
So you expect me now to tell you of my great victory, don’t you? Multiple requests from editors for my fledging work? Yeah…no. I was disqualified. Copyrighted material – I couldn’t write about characters created by someone else, even if the main character of my story was created by me.
It was too late, though. I was hooked. I kept writing – on the sly, mind you, all the way through high school and college. I even took a couple creative writing and journalism classes along the way, but never took my writing seriously. I got my degree in music education, taught school, got married, pumped out babies, and never looked back. Except those times when I’d sneak away to the computer (way easier for editing, by the way) to write a little something.
And then one day, another idea hit me that started sucking up a lot of my free time. It took me six months to write that puppy – all 700 pages of it. Yes, I overdid it a bit. But by then, I had the internet and had met other people who enjoyed writing and who could point me in the direction of a publisher. The rest, as they say, is history. No, I didn’t publish that 700-page book. It’s awful, just like those stories I wrote as a kid. But they all taught me a lot, and I took those lessons and use them today. And my biggest hope is that you can fall as hard for my heroes as I fell for Scotty all those years ago. I know I can.
And to think, I owe it all to a case of the flu.
Blurb:
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And I Owe it All to the FluFirst off, thanks to Kristie for inviting me here today take part in her guest blogger section! I’m thrilled to be here!
So Kristie asked me how I got started writing, and I had to think back a bit. A looong bit. You see, I started this madness when I was thirteen years old. I had a terrible case of the flu, and when I couldn’t sleep, my dad would sit with me and we’d watch Star Trek reruns. Yup. Star Trek. Being thirteen, I was a little hormonal, so I fell like the Hindenburg for one of the characters. Being me (a little different than your average girl), I fell for Scotty. Not Checov, Kirk or even Sulu. Scotty.
Even after I felt better, I’d sneak out of bed and watch. I was so obsessed with James Doohan that I started “writing” myself into the episodes as his girlfriend. Up to this point, it was all in my head, but one day I sat down with a packet of notebook paper and started writing down some ideas I had for a new episode. I kept writing and writing until soon I had over one hundred hand-written pages.
That’s when my mom found it. I was mortified! I mean it was a silly little fantasy indulgence, and my mom was not very tolerant of anything so frivolous. But she surprised me. She pulled out an old Royal typewriter she had used in college – and let me tell you those keys were stiff – and told me to type it up. I did. And another hundred or so pages to go with it.
Then my teacher found out about it.
She let me use class reading time to work on the book. I’d go home and type what I’d written at school, then bring it back to her to read the next day. She decided what I needed to do was submit it to a state writing competition, but there was a catch. I had to finish what had now become a novel within a month. At the tender age of fourteen, I was under my first deadline.
I set out my goal, knowing I’d have to edit and retype the whole thing. And I did it, too – with two days to spare. I was so proud handing her that manila envelope, all addressed and ready to go to the contest. I just knew this was my first step into the big world of publishing.
So you expect me now to tell you of my great victory, don’t you? Multiple requests from editors for my fledging work? Yeah…no. I was disqualified. Copyrighted material – I couldn’t write about characters created by someone else, even if the main character of my story was created by me.
It was too late, though. I was hooked. I kept writing – on the sly, mind you, all the way through high school and college. I even took a couple creative writing and journalism classes along the way, but never took my writing seriously. I got my degree in music education, taught school, got married, pumped out babies, and never looked back. Except those times when I’d sneak away to the computer (way easier for editing, by the way) to write a little something.
And then one day, another idea hit me that started sucking up a lot of my free time. It took me six months to write that puppy – all 700 pages of it. Yes, I overdid it a bit. But by then, I had the internet and had met other people who enjoyed writing and who could point me in the direction of a publisher. The rest, as they say, is history. No, I didn’t publish that 700-page book. It’s awful, just like those stories I wrote as a kid. But they all taught me a lot, and I took those lessons and use them today. And my biggest hope is that you can fall as hard for my heroes as I fell for Scotty all those years ago. I know I can.
And to think, I owe it all to a case of the flu.
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Thank you so much, Catherine, for stopping by Sizzling Hot Romance today and sharing your story with us.
You can visit Catherine Wade at: http://www.catherinewade.com/
Catherine's latest book is Let's Dish which is published with Samhain Publishing, Ltd. You can purchase a copy buy CLICKING HERE. Catherine has another book, Another Time Around, which will be released in September 2009
Blurb:Maggie Donnely has problems no Food Network star ever had to deal with. Her coffee shop is running in the red, her EPT just turned pink, and keeping her business partners in line is making her blue in the face. A run-in with her old cooking school nemesis is the last thing she needs.Kevin Best is a blast from the past with more than Maggie's recipes on his mind. He knows he made one big mistake with her, but she's got no idea just how far he'll go to put her heart back on the menu. When Maggie loses her shop to a fire, and her partners to a stupid mistake, she's forced to turn to Kevin to help her win a contest that could save her bacon. Friendless, desperate - and with the proverbial bun in the oven - it's a choice that could change the rest of her life. If she can learn to love again. What's the old saying about too many cooks? Maggie's about the find out...the hard way.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Author Catherine Wade will be guest blogging on Tues July 7th
Catherine Wade will be my guest blogger for Tuesday July 7th.
Catherine is a friend of mine at Facebook. She describes her writing as Romantic Comedy With Attitude. Naturally this intrigued me as I, too, have published a romantic comedy (No Lady and Her Tramp) that definitely has attitude! I just had to have Catherine blog at Sizzling Hot Romance!
Mark your calendar so you won't miss this event! Invite your friends to come as well. The more the merrier. And don't forget to be thinking of questions that you would like to ask Catherine on her day.
You can visit her website at http://www.catherinewade.com.
Catherine is a friend of mine at Facebook. She describes her writing as Romantic Comedy With Attitude. Naturally this intrigued me as I, too, have published a romantic comedy (No Lady and Her Tramp) that definitely has attitude! I just had to have Catherine blog at Sizzling Hot Romance!
Mark your calendar so you won't miss this event! Invite your friends to come as well. The more the merrier. And don't forget to be thinking of questions that you would like to ask Catherine on her day.
You can visit her website at http://www.catherinewade.com.
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