Book and Author News --Issue # 7

I'm lucky this year--I get two springs. I just returned from a week in Atlanta where everything was blooming. Now in Mayland I get to see my flowers and bushes come to life.

This week Romance Writers of America announced the finalists for their RITA awards. Congratulations to Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb for Innocent in Death in the Best Romantic Suspense category and to Mary Jo Putney who is so a finalist for Best Long Historical for The Marriage Spell. You can see all the nominees for the RITA awards at
http://161.58.67.252/ritafinalists2007.htm

Watch for an interview with Deirdre Martin, author of Chasing Stanley, in Monday’s New York Post (April 2).

For parents of teens, I’ve done a podcast on safe teen driving for Parentingmyteen.com and it should be up the first week in April. For more teen driving tips, visit teendriving.com. We have a new interview on the site with Tim Smith who wrote Crashproof your Kids.

Mary Jo Putney recently attended an event put on by the Officers Wives Club on Ft. Meade. There's a great post on Word Wenches (3/29) from Kimberly A. Lowe, Major, Air Force Reserves on what it means to be a military wife.

Make your plans to attend the Washington Romance Writers Pre-Retreat mega book signing at Turn the Page Books (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.

If you listen to Sirius Satellite radio, be sure to tune into Toby Deven’s interview on Wednesday, April 4 at 2:00 pm ET The Good Life Show with Jesse Dylan, Sirius- Satellite "Lime Radio" Toby is the author My Favorite Midlife Crisis Yet.

Bestseller Lists
Wall Street Journal Mar 22 Fiction list
# 11. "Innocent in Death" by Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb (Putnam)
USA Today List March 29 list
#54 Table for Two by Nora Roberts
#57 Irish Dreams
#88 Innocent in Death

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:
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
Monday, April 2, 8:30 am CT/ 9:30 am, Toby Devens, ET WZEE-FM Madison, WI
Tuesday, April 3, 4:00 pm CT/ 5:00 pm ET, Toby Devens, The Michael Dresser Show Nationally syndicated by the Lifestyle Network
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 2:00 pm ET The Good Life Show with Jesse Dylan Sirius- Satellite "Lime Radio"
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 2:30 pm ET WDRC-AM Mary Jones, Midday Magazine, Hartford, CT