8/2011 Chapter News
Jo Anne Banker (who did not send this news, by the way) won the Contemporary Series Romance Golden Heart for her novel Lost and Found.
Gerry Bartlett was happy to receive a top pick and a five star review from Night Owl reviews for Real Vampires Don’t Wear Size Six. This is book seven in her vamp series and hits shelves August 2. Meanwhile she is off to England and Scotland to research for
book 9, so far untitled, date to be announced.
Cheryl Bolen’s A Lady by Chance is in the Top 10 romance sellers for Amazon UK. Its best showing has been Number 5. This is an electronic reissue of her 2000 Kensington Precious Gems book, selling for 99 cents. Sadly, the book has only made the Top 100 in
the larger selling U.S. market.
Also, for Cheryl’s __th birthday, No. 1 son (who treated the family to a weekend in New Orleans) read her 2002 book A Fallen Woman as a present to his mom! It was the first time he’s read one of her books. (He says he doesn’t like to think about his mom knowing
about sex stuff.) Following her custom of dedicating each book to a loved one, she had dedicated that book to him. He’s now decided Lifetime TV movies are missing out by not making the book into a television movie.
And one more thing for Cheryl. . .look in the Take Note section of the August edition of The Writer magazine for Cheryl’s mini article on Moleskines.
Sophie Jordan just landed her seventeenth foreign sale for her Firelight trilogy, selling to Taiwan. And she also just learned that Firelight is in its fourth printing. Also, her August historical romance, Wicked in Your Arms, earned a 41/2 stars TOP pick from RT BookReviews and a K.I.S.S award.
Vicky Dreiling’s historical romance How To Seduce a Scoundrel debuted at #45 on Nielsen Bookscan’s Top 100 Romances.
Shana Galen’s September release, Lord and Lady Spy, is on Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 Romances in their Fall preview edition.
Deeanne Gist’s historical novel, Maid to Match, won Book Buyers’ Best and National Readers Choice in the Inspirational Category. She has been acquired by general market agent David Vigliano of Vigliano Associates, who is listed by Publishers Marketplace as
one of the industry’s top deal makers and whose client list includes Jackie Collins, Larry King, William Shatner, Rocco DiSpirito, and more.
Lynn Lorenz’s first book with her new publisher, Etopia Press, will be released August 5th. The book, a space Regency called The Ambassador’s Daughter was described as “24 meets Jane Austin in space, with a female Jack Bauer.” She’s also thrilled that her novella, C’est La Vie, set in New Orleans and Provence, France, is also releasing in August from Amber Quill Press—Amber Allure. Currently, she’s working on several deadlines and is on a first name basis with the folks at her local Specs.
Joan Reeves is testing the nonfiction ebook waters. Last month she added an ebook that’s a “best of” compilation from SlingWords, her popular blog. Written Wisdom, Quotation-Inspired Essays, 2005-2010, is inspiration, motivation, and encouragement disguised as
an ebook. If you want to know how to persist, this is the book that illustrates that allimportant skill by an author who’s been in the trenches for a long time. In the end, she’s not only survived the slings and arrows of publishing, she’s finally prospered.
Joan Reeves is loving the ebook life and buying way too many bottles of champagne! The most recent bottle was opened in mid-July to celebrate the sale of more than 80,000 ebooks in less than 4 months. This month she publishes her fifth romance, the second book in her Texas One Night Stands series: Romeo and Judy Anne. Of course that means,more champagne!
Linda Warren’s book Skylar’s Outlaw won The National Reader’s Choice Award for Long Contemporary in New York at the national conference. A weekly online read by Linda Warren, The Cowboy Next Door, is available at www.eharlequin.com. http://tiny.cc/8hpo6
Joanna Wayne just signed a 3-book contract for books to be released in 2012. The series is Big D Dads, and the titles are: Son of a Gun, Live Ammo, and Big Shot.
