2/2010 Chapter News
It’s the month of love, romance, Emily awards and fabulous news. Let’s get started with the good news, which this month is in no particular order.
Gerry Bartlett’s second book in her Glory St. Clair series, REAL VAMPIRES LIVE LARGE, will be translated and released in Germany in April. Along with that, the German magazine “The Love Letter” asked her to write her own love story. How she met her husband on a blind date more than thirty years ago will be in the April issue of the magazine with her original wedding picture.
Sharie Kohler (aka Sophie Jordan) is happy to report the foreign sale of her historical romance, ONE NIGHT WITH YOU, to Japan.
Colleen Thompson just learned that BENEATH BONE LAKE has been named a finalist for Best Paperback Original in the 2010 Thriller Award of the International Thriller Writers. She’s really excited since so many of what she likeS to think of as the rock stars of the thriller genre have finalled in or won one of these awards.
After six years, Judythe Hixson writing as Judythe Morgan has finaled in the Emily again. Her entry, CLAIMING ANNIE’S HEART, was a revised, edited and tweaked manuscript based on previous Emily contest judges’ suggestion and comments from Pat Kay’s wonderful novel writing classes.
Lynn Lorenz reports that in January, BAYMORE’S HEIR, the third book in The Company of Men series, came out from Loose Id, and will be followed by the February 14th release of her novella Breakfast At Tiffany’s, from Amber Quill Press. The Silent Lodge, a menage novella in The Company of Men series, was accepted by Loose Id and is scheduled to be published this April. And Lynn made the 2009 Liquid Silver Books Top 20 Books in sales with Second Moon, a werewolf novella, published in 2008. She’s also made the top sales lists at Loose Id, with Best Vacation That Never Was, and top sales at Amber Allure, with My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys.
Lara Chapman’s FLAWLESS, a modern retelling of the Cyrano story in which a seniorclass salutatorian with a notable nose agrees to help her perfectly gorgeous best friend catch the eye of the new hottie at school, only to discover he’s actually the perfect guy for her, sold to Caroline Abbey at Bloomsbury Children’s, by Holly Root at Waxman Literary Agency (world).
Jessica Trapp is excited to announce that she started a newsletter, which is available at www.jessicatrapp.com
And last but not least, Joanna Wayne reports that BRAVO, TANGO, COWBOY was nominated by RT as Best Intrigue of 2009.
