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

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 -- Feb 22, 2007

Book and Author News: Feb 22, 2007

WordWenches.com event: Join the Word Wenches Sunday, 2/25, Edith Layton will interview Barbara Metzger!

Patricia Rice has just agreed to a new contract with Penguin/Signet for an historical fantasy series set in the 1790s and centered around a mystical isle.

For Hockey fans of the fictitious New York Blades team in Deirdre Martin’s books, visit her new site for the Blades http://www.nyblades.com/

See new interviews of Nora Roberts (part 2 and 3) and Mary Jo Putney (part 3) on Romancenovel.tv


The Dragon Lovers writers, Jo Beverley, Mary Jo Putney, Karen Harbaugh, and Barbara Samuel, have a new website http://www.fourinspired.com/ that gives more de tails about Dragon Lovers and other collaborative works of the group.



Signings and Appearances

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.

Chassie West :
February 24, 2007 7-11 PM Evening in the Stacks at Howard County Library
Columbia, MD 21045 Tickets $100 Proceeds benefit the education and literary programs of Howard County Library. $45 of each ticket is a tax-deductible contribution to Howard County Library For information: http://www.hclibrary.org/

Patricia Rice (Sweet Home Carolina) will be attending the Celebrate Romance in Kansas City March 2-4.

Toby Devens (My Favorite Midlife Crisis Yet):
Sunday, March 11: Bibliobabes, Howard County, Maryland
Thursday, March 29: Brandeis University National Women's Committee Book and Author Luncheon
Wednesday, April 18: Gerber Mini College, Rockville, Maryland



Lifetime Movie Schedule:
Nora Roberts Carolina Moon –Re-airs Saturday March 3 at 7 pm et/pt

Bestseller List

Irish Dreams by Nora Roberts #8 on USA Today List
Chasing Stanley by Deirdre Martin # 144 USA Today List


Bookshelf
Now in stores: Innocent in Death, J. D. Robb Read an excerpt released Feb 20

Chasing Stanley, Deirdre Martin

Sweet Home Carolina, Patricia Rice

Irish Dreams by Nora Roberts reissue of Irish Rebel 2000 and Sullivan’s Woman 1984


Coming soon:

Feb 27, 2007 Table for Two by Nora Roberts, Trade size resissue 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