Book and Author News - July 7, 2008

Tribute, the latest hardcover from bestselling author Nora Roberts, arrives in bookstores on Tuesday July 8^th. To celebrate the new book, Nora now has her own widget. The widget will feature facts about Nora and her novels as well as writing tips. Here's a picture of the widget and you can see a live widget on the right hand side of this blog. Get your own copy for your website, blog, myspace or facebook and other social networking pages by clicking on the GET WIDGET link.

Read an excerpt of Tribute. Watch for the new commercial for Tribute running on HGTV, The Food Network, Lifetime TV, Extreme Home Makeover, and other cable programs. You can see the commercial on Nora’s website.

Order autographed copies of Tribute

Patricia Rice’s new book, Mystic Rider is now in stores and getting great reviews. It’s the second book in her Mystic Isle series.

Read an excerpt of Mystic Rider.

Visit Patricia Rice's website

Pat's Mystic Rider and Susan Holloway Scott's The King’s Favorite are July Top Picks over at Romantic Times.

Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase is a NYT extended list bestseller and has gone back to a second printing. Rounding out her cyber-tour for the launch of Your Scandalous Ways, Loretta will be a guest of Candice Hern’s Bluestockings from the 14th through the 20th of July during Loretta’s Guest Author week.

Bookshelf

Tribute, by Nora Roberts – 7/08/08

The Hollow by Nora Roberts - now available

High Noon by Nora Roberts - Mass market edition

MacGregor Grooms - by Nora Roberts June 2008

http://www.noraroberts.com

MYSTIC RIDER, by Pat Rice – 7/08

http://www.patriciarice.com/

HIS DARK AND DANGEROUS WAYS, by Edith Layton - 6/08

YOUR SCANDALOUS WAYS, by Loretta Chase - 6/08

http://www.lorettachase.com

A DISTANT MAGIC, by Mary Jo Putney – reprint 5/08

http://www.maryjoputney.com/ADistantMagicexcerpt.pdf

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Book and Author News - Issue # 15

Lifetime Movie Channel has decided to make four more Nora Roberts books into movies for 2009. Under consideration are Tribute, High Noon, Northern Lights, True Betrayals, Midnight Bayou and Carnal Innocence. Read the press release.

Look for The Hollow, by Nora Roberts, in stores on Tuesday, May 6th.

As part of her cyber-tour to launch Your Scandalous Ways, Loretta Chase will be a guest on May 19 at Romance B(u)y the Book. Please drop by and leave a comment! The second leg of her cyber-tour will take Loretta to Romance Novel TV, where she will be a guest author on May 26-28. The third leg of her tour will be May 27-28 at Isn’t it Romantic? And finally, the fourth leg will be an interview at Vauxhall Vixens on 5/29.

Patricia Rice's Mystic Guardian cover is a finalist in the Cover Cafe book cover contest. It’s a fun contest and if you go to the site, you can vote for Pat’s cover!

Loretta's Your Scandalous Ways received a really great review over at Publishers Weekly.

Both Mary Jo Putney and Patricia Rice attended the Romantic Times convention in Pittsburgh in April and each received a Pioneer of Romance award in recognition for their many years of being published.

Library Journal has awarded a coveted starred review to Jo Beverly for A Lady’s Secret and to Loretta for Your Scandalous Ways. Read the full reviews here.

Bookshelf

THE HOLLOW by Nora Roberts, The second book in the Sign of Seven Series –May 6 Read an excerpt

http://www.noraroberts.com

A DISTANT MAGIC, by Mary Jo Putney – reprint 5/08

http://www.maryjoputney.com/ADistantMagicexcerpt.pdf

HIS DARK AND DANGEROUS WAYS, by Edith Layton - 6/08

YOUR SCANDALOUS WAYS, by Loretta Chase - 6/08

http://tinyurl.com/26cf6k

THE KING’S FAVORITE, A NOVEL OF NELL GWYN AND CHARLES II, by Susan Holloway Scott - 7/08

MYSTIC RIDER, by Pat Rice – 7/08

http://www.patriciarice.com/