Book and Author News - March 09, 2009

Inn Boonsboro created by bestselling author Nora Roberts, combines the luxury of a 5 star boutique hotel with the charm and warmth of a bed and breakfast. I’ve been working on the website for the Inn and had the opportunity to attend the grand opening party last month. The rooms are incredible, every detail from the furniture, art, linens, to the amazing baths have been designed for comfort and style. What a great getaway! Check out the rooms on the InnBoonsBoro.com website.

Get ready for Movie nights—Lifetime will be premiering movies from Nora Roberts Books on Saturday nights starting Sat March 21^st.

Northern Lights - Sat. March 21

Midnight Bayou - Sat March 28

High Noon - Sat. April 4

Tribute - Sat. April 11

And on the subject of Nora, Roberts, her new J. D. Robb novel, Promises in Death is now available. It’s number #1 this week on Publisher’s Weekly Hardcover list. You can order an autographed copy from Turn the Page Books.

A Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she’s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she’s taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isn’t just “one of us.” Eve is going to break this case, whatever it takes.

Alison Buckholtz (my niece) has a beautifully written and heart felt memoir “Standing By – The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War”. Check out her salute to Military Families, in her Homecoming Day Video There are many resources for military families on her website Standbybook.com

The book will be in stores on April 2. You can preorder from Amazon.com

The Highland Groom, by Sarah Gabriel. Avon, 1/09. To fulfill a promise, Fiona MacCarran travels into the misty Highlands to teach at a glen school. To save his clan, Dougal MacGregor smuggles the finest whisky. Can a law-abiding Lowland lass and an outlawed Highland rebel ever find common ground, let alone love?Read more on Sarah's website.

Congratulations to Jo Beverley and Loretta Chase! Jo’s A Lady’s Secret and Loretta’s Your Scandalous Ways were both listed on the Reader’s Advisor Online list of Great Romances of 2008. Your Scandalous Ways also made the AAR Annual Reader Poll list for Best Historical Romance Set Outside the U.K. and Best Love Scenes.

LADY MACBETH, Susan Fraser King (trade paperback release) - 4/09

THE SECRET WEDDING, by Jo Beverley - 4/09

Jessica Garrett’s new poetry book Fire Pond (this year's addition to the Agha Shahid Ali Prize Series) is currently available for pre-order on Amazon. The official release date is March 31.)

Coming events:

Wordwenches.com O3/11 – Pat Rice will be hosting Ella March Chase, who will be a Wench guest this month. She will be talking about her recent release, The Virgin Queen’s Daughter, a fictionalized Queen Elizabeth historical wherein the queen hides an illegitimate daughter n the Word Wenches

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/

Book and Author News--Issue 6

Welcome to Spring. This is what my cherry trees will look like in about a month.

This week we celebrate readers and fans from around the country and around the world. Meet some of Nora Roberts’s fans online at the adwoff website and chat about Nora and her books. Nora sends postcards and pictures from her trips to the site. http://adwoff.com/

After Hurricane Katrina, Adwoff members and Nora’s fans raised over $30,000 online for Habitat for Humanity—and Nora matched that and more. And in 2002 when a town landmark in Ardmore was threatened by development, Nora’s fans rallied sending thousands of emails to the Ardmore council and persuading them to make the area around St. Declan’s an untouchable “green area.”

Deirdre Martin, author of Stealing Stanley, got an encouraging note from Alice a reader in the UK who loved her hockey themed novels so much she wrote up a review and sent it to the local hockey team, the Sheffield Steelers. The team published the review of the book in their program and then sent it on to their opposing team.

Post your own reader's stories as comments to this post.

Stop over at the Word Wenches blog (http://www.wordwenches.com/) and read Mary Jo’s review of the new movie Amazing Grace.

Bestseller List

Publishers Weekly list March 19
#6 Innocent in Death by J. D. Robb (Fiction List)
#7 Table for Two by Nora Roberts (Trade Paper)
USAToday List March 18
#39 Table for Two by Nora Roberts
#55 Innocent in Death by J. D. Robb
#38 Irish Dreams by Nora Roberts

Bookshelf
Now in stores: 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 4/3/07
Not Quite a Lady by Loretta Chase - 5/07

Signings and Events:
Mar 24 - Mary Jo Putney: Lovettsvillle Library (talk), Loudoun County, VA
Apr 20-22 - Mary Jo Putney: Pike’s Peak Writers Conference, Colorado Springs, CO
Friday Apr 27, 2007 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)
Mar 29: Toby Devens: Brandeis University National Women's Committee Book and Author Luncheon and Wednesday, Apr18: Gerber Mini College, Rockville, Maryland
Listen to Toby Deven’s radio interviews:
Monday, April 2 8:30 am CT/ 9:30 am ET WZEE-FM Madison, WI
Tuesday, April 3 4:00 pm CT/ 5:00 pm ET The Michael Dresser Show Nationally syndicated by the Lifestyle Network
Wednesday, April 4 2:00 pm ET The Good Life Show with Jesse Dylan Sirius- Satellite "Lime Radio"
Wednesday, April 4 2:30 pm EST WDRC-AM Mary Jones, Midday Magazine Hartford, CT

Book and Author News --Issue # 3

Book and Author News, issue #3
March 1, 2007

Lifetime will be re-airing Carolina Moon, Saturday March 3 at 7 pm et/pt

If you missed Nora’s movies on Lifetime you can download them on iTunes. You must be a U. S. citizen to be able to purchase the downloads.

Innocent in Death by J. D. Robb made #2 on the USA Today list this week.

The DVDs will be released in the U. S. as a two set--Angels Fall and Montana Sky--scheduled for an August release and Blue Smoke and Carolina Moon--an October release. These dates are tentative--and we'll let you know if they change.

All About Romance announced the results of their annual reader’s poll for romances published in 2006. Read the results.
http://aar.blog-city.com/2007_2006.htm
Congratulations to Loretta Chase and Jo Beverley for their awards. Loretta’s wonderful LORD PERFECT was recognized with three wins in Favorite Funny, Best Cabin/Road Romance, and Best Couple as well as four honorable mentions as Best Romance, Best European Historical, Strongest Heroine, and Best Heroine. Jo Beverley’s THE ROGUE’S RETURN was a favorite in the Best Western/Frontier category.

Celebrate Dragon Month on the WordWenches.com blog, Watch for these guest interviews:
Karen Harbaugh on March 3
Barbara Samuels March 21
Shana Abe March 24
(Check the website in case the dates change)

Mystery Loves Company will be received the Raven Award from The Mystery Writers of America. It will be presented on Thursday April 26 at the Edgar's Banquet. Read the latest issue of the Mystery Loves Company newsletter that reviews new mysteries and lists booksignings in the Mid-Atlantic area.

Bestseller List

Innocent in Death by J. D. Robb #2 on USA Today List
Irish Dreams by Nora Roberts #13 on USA Today List

Bookshelf
Now in stores: Innocent in Death, J. D. Robb Read an excerpt
Irish Dream by Nora Roberts reissue of Irish Rebel 2000 and Sullivan’s Woman 1984
Feb 27, 2007 Table for Two by Nora Roberts, Trade size reissue of Summer Deserts 10/85 and Lessons Learned 5/86
Mar 6, 2007 Dragon Lovers by Jo Beverley, Mary Jo Putney, Barbara Samuel, and Karen Harbaugh
April 3, 2007 Golden Night by Candice Poarch

Appearances, book signings, and online events

Turn the Page Bookstore: Saturday, March 3, 2007 1-3 PM J D Robb autographs her new hardcover Innocent In Death. Also mystery author Cordelia Frances Biddle signs her debut release The Conjurer. Elaine Fox and Lani Diane Rich sign their latest books. If you can’t attend the signing, you can order signed books from their virtual signing at the http://www.ttpbooks.com/ website.

Mar 2-4 – Patricia Rice: Celebrate Romance conference, Kansas City, MO
Mar 13 – Patricia Rice: Coffee Time chat, http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/Chat.html
Mar 24 - Mary Jo Putney: Lovettsvillle Library (talk), Loudoun County, VA
Apr 20-22 - Mary Jo Putney: Pike’s Peak Writers Conference, Colorado Springs, CO
Mar 11 – Toby Devens: Bibliobabes, Howard County, Maryland
Mar 29 – Toby Devens: Brandeis University National Women's Committee Book and Author Luncheon
April 18—Toby Devens: Gerber Mini College, Rockville, Maryland

Book promotion tips of the week: When you schedule a signing request that a sign with some copies of your book be put up in the store a few weeks ahead of time. Also ask if you can sign any unsold copies and add a "signed" sticker to the books. This will extend interest in your book and sell more copies--before and after your signing.