Monday, April 9, 2007

Book and Author News -- Issue #8




For everyone still waiting for spring--still time to curl up with a good book. Nice weather will get here eventually.


Wordwenches.com--Susan Scott/Miranda Jarrett is interviewing Loretta Chase about her new book, Not Quite a Lady, in May.


NOT QUITE A LADY by Loretta Chase is a Top Pick in the MAY 2007 Romantic Times Book Club magazine.

Deirdre Martin was interviewed in the April 9th edition of the New York Post Romance Readers Hot for Ice. Read the article.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04092007/news/regionalnews/romance_readers_hot_for_ice_regionalnews_jennifer_fermino.htm


Toby Devens and her novel, My Favorite Midlife Crisis (yet) will be the lead story in the April newsletter of the multi-thousand member-strong National Association of Baby Boomer Women, http://www.nabbw.com/ Toby is also leading a class on April 18 at the Gerber Adult Seminars, Rockville, Maryland. The subject: "A Novel Approach to Living a Long and Passionate Life." The third round of her national radio tour included Lifestyle Network's Michael Dresser Show available in archive at http://www.lifestyletalkradio.com/weekday_hosts/archives/tmds.shtml (4/5/07; hour 2) and The Good Life with Jesse Dylan on Lime Radio/Sirius Satellite. And she'll be talking about the art of rewriting at the annual conference of the Maryland Writers Association, April 21.

Make your plans to attend the Washington Romance Writers Pre-Retreat mega book signing at Turn the Page Books (http://www.ttpbooks.com/)
Friday April 27, 2007 11:30-2:00 WRW Retreat Signing
Join Nora Roberts and special retreat guests Lisa Gardner, Madeline Hunter, and Julia Quinn. WRW Members attending: Dee Davis, Susan Donovan, Diane Gaston, Donna Kauffman, Kathleen O'Reilly, Pamela Palmer, Hope Tarr, Michelle Willingham, and Jean Marie Ward. If you can’t attend, you can order signed copies on the virtual book signing page on the ttpbooks website.


Bestseller Lists
USA Today List April 5 list
# 16 The MacGregors: Daniel and Ian
#130 Irish Dreams
#147 Table for Two by Nora Roberts

Bookshelf
Now in stores:
The MacGregors: Daniel & Ian
Innocent in Death, J. D. Robb
My Favorite Midlife Crisis Yet, Toby Devens
Table for Two by Nora Roberts, Trade size reissue of Summer Deserts 10/85 and Lessons Learned 5/86
Dragon Lovers by Jo Beverley, Mary Jo Putney, Barbara Samuel, and Karen Harbaugh
Golden Night by Candice Poarch
Not Quite a Lady by Loretta Chase - 5/07

Signings and Events:
Apr 20-22 - Mary Jo Putney: Pike’s Peak Writers Conference, Colorado Springs, CO
Friday Apr 27 11:30-2:00 WRW Retreat Signing—Nora Roberts and members of Washington Romance for a Mega signing at Turn the Page Bookstore (ttpbooks.com)
Wednesday, Apr18: Toby Devens, Gerber Mini College, Rockville, Maryland

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