Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Wow, August was busy. Here’s the news that dropped into my inbox:
Colleen Thompson is happy to announce her second sale to Harlequin Intrigue, Capturing the Commando, which is slated for release in June 2011.
Joan Reeves has been asked to write for TheCelebrityCafe.com, which is, according to Wikipedia “the Internet’s longest tenured entertainment publication, having been in existence since 1995.” While the editors are setting up her page, she’s working with them on what kind of editorial content she’ll provide. Since TheCelebrityCafe.com receives about 4.9 million readers each month, she’s rather excited about this opportunity
Kay Hudson’s Paper Hearts is a finalist in the Historical category of the Toronto Gold contest. It also placed third in the Colonial/Western/Civil War category of the Romance Through the Ages contest, although it is a humorous romance set in
coastal Texas in the late 1870s. About ten years passed between starting and finishing the manuscript, but it spent a lot of that time as eighty pages in a file moving from computer to computer but rarely opened. Kay finally finished it with
the push of her “one hundred words a day for one hundred days” loop.
Writer Magazine has purchased Cheryl Bolen’s article titled “Making the Time to Write.” It will appear in the December issue, which comes out in early November. Cheryl says this article was adapted and expanded from a workshop she gave
first to the Bay Area RWA and, later, to the San Antonio Romance Writers.
She’s urging everybody to hit their local B&N (or other bricks and mortar book store) to get it for all the timesaving writing tips she’s garnered over the years.The article also includes lots of examples about how other published writers “made” the time to write.
In July, Leslie Marshman got home from the West Houston meeting to find a contract from True Romance for a story I’d submitted five days earlier. She says, “My first submission, my first sale. It’s scheduled for the October issue, focusing on breast cancer awareness.” The story is tentatively titled Blind Date Redemption.
Linda Warren is happy to announce that her book, Caitlyn’s Prize, won the Booksellers’ Best Award.
Second Chance Bride, Jane Myers Perrine!s Love Inspired Historical, won second place in the Published Beacon Contest.
Kerrelyn Sparks is thrilled that the sixth book in the Love at Stake series, Secret Life of a Vampire, has won the Colorado Award of Excellence and the PRISM award. The ninth book in the series, Eat Prey Love, releases at the end of September. For more information, please visit Kerrelyn on Facebook or her website at www.kerrelynsparks.com.
Publisher’s Weekly reviewed Shana Galen’s October release, The Making of a Gentleman, saying, “plenty of mystery, intrigue, passionate romance, and a knack for bringing the historical setting to life.”
Joanna Wayne will be teaching the week long Master Class at the Low Country RWA Beach Retreat on Oct. 22. And she!ll be speaking at the North Louisiana chapter’s Boot Camp for Writers in Shreveport, LA on October 9. And best of all, Cowboy Swagger, the first book in her 5-book series, The Sons of Troy Ledger, will be out in September.
P.J. Mellor was thrilled to learn her 2009 release, Drive Me Wild, is a finalist in the Heart of Excellence Readers! Choice Award. Drive Me Wild also won Best Erotic Anthology 2009 from the reviewers at Romance Reviews Today (RRT).
Jessica Trapp got Trapped in a Book Sydney where she was sponsor for the Romance Writers of Australia conference this year. She says, “What an awesome time! Excellent workshops, friendly people and a beautiful beach to walk on. So grateful to for the opportunity to go.”
Michele Dunaway is excited and bittersweet over her final Harlequin American Romance release, The Doctor!s Little Miracle, which is out this month. However she’s enjoying the time off from writing romance to do family stuff that she!s put off for the last 11 years while she churned out those 23 contracted books. Also, in mid-August she became a contributor to VisualThesaurus.com, meaning she!s just shifting gears. She reports it!s rather fun to have college professors and literary types agreeing and commenting on her “Teachers at Work” columns.
Teri Thackston, writing as Tea Trelawny, wants to announce the release of her newest book Wood-Lovin’ Nymph. This erotic romance is written in the fantasy vein, and is a ‘quickie’ from Ellora’s Cave. Wood Nymph Ariana loves the Central Park Oak tree in which she lives–but she craves Rick Ballentine’s hard body more. Unfortunately the sexy NYPD detective believes she’s working with a couple of muggers in the park. To avoid arrest, she must convince him of her innocence and she’s willing to use her body to do it. Wood-Lovin’ Nymph is available at www.jasminejade.com beginning Sept. 9.