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Cindy
Procter-King is thrilled that her romantic
comedy novel Borrowing Alex has been
selected as a Chick Lit Pick 2008 Beach Read by
South Jersey Mom, a regional magazine
in New Jersey that's distributed to dentist's
and doctor's offices. Along with nine other 2008
Beach Read Picks, Borrowing Alex will
be featured in the May and April editions of South
Jersey Mom.
Eileen Cook
is excited to announce that she has signed a two-book
deal with Simon Schuster to write YA (young adult).
Kate St.
James is thrilled to announce her third sale
of an erotic romance novella to Red Sage Publishing.
"Kiss Me at Midnight" will appear in
a Secrets anthology with three other
authors in 2009.
Kay Gregory
is excited to share news of her most recent short
story sale to People's Friend. It's called
“Lost” and features a heroine with
a poor sense of direction who gets lost in a stately
home and stumbles upon the house's resident earl—with
interesting results.
Loreth
Anne White is thrilled to announce The
Heart of A Renegade—the next thrilling
installment in her Shadow Soldiers series—is
coming in March 2008. Manhunter, the
first book in True North—an exciting new
Silhouette Romantic Suspense miniseries set north
of 60—will launch in November 2008, kicking
off with a story set in the remote northern Yukon
featuring a Mountie and a female tracker. Also
coming from Loreth: Breaking Free, book
10 in Thoroughbred Legacy—a 12-book Harlequin
continuity series set against the glamour and
intrigue of the international horseracing scene,
to be published June 2008 to May 2009. Settings
range from Kentucky to London, Dubai and Australia.
Participating authors include Elizabeth Bevarly,
Wendy Warren, Kristin Gabriel, Joanne Rock, Barbara
Dunlop, Kathleen O’Reilly, Maggie Price,
Ken Casper, Jenna Mills, Loreth Anne White, Margot
Early, and Bethany Campbell.
Lee McKenzie
is delighted to announce she has signed another
two-book contract with Harlequin American Romance.
Titles and publication dates to be announced.
Leanne
Karella (w/a Anna Leigh Keaton) won first
place in the Novella category in the 2007 Passionate
Plume with Five Alarm Neighbor.
Susan Lyons
is pleased to announce that Kensington has asked
her to write a Christmas story for a December
2008 anthology. She's also delighted to have contracted
for her 12th "calendar story" with the
Wild Rose Press. Now there will be one for each
month. Susan was also thrilled to come back from
RWA National with two Booksellers Best Awards
for Champagne Rules—one for single
title/mainstream and one for first book. Champagne
Rules also won the Golden Quill, and Hot
In Here (the second book in her Awesome Foursome
series) won the More Than Magic contest. She was
also delighted when Kris, the editor of LoveLetter,
the German romance magazine, gave her a copy of
the June issue with her tour of Awesome Vancouver.
The story (in English!) is available on the Articles
page of her
website.
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