Our News

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First Sales

 

September 1, RM Brand sold "The Shaman’s Beacon" to Red Sage Publishing.


Leslie Marshman sold a story to True Romance magazine, her first submission, first sale. Tentative title is “Blind Date Redemption,” with publication scheduled for the October issue.

 

October 1st, Robin Badillo will celebrate the release of her first published book, JOURNEY OF THE DAMNED: RETRIBUTION. Publisher Devine Destinies will follow-up with Robin’s second and third installments of the trilogy in December, 2010 and in February, 2011.

 

 

Contest News

 

Emily Placements:

Romantic Suspense: 3rd Place: The Devil’s Obsession by Stacey Purcell

Young Adult: 1st Place Tie: Three Smooth Stones by Robin Haseltine

Young Adult: 2nd Place Tie: Blackmailed by Nancy Kay Bowden

 

 

Finalist in the Beacon and Linda Howard contest:  “Bad Vibes”
– June Faver 

Finalist in the Emily contest: “Three Smooth Stones”
– Robin Haseltine 

 

Finalist in the Emily contest: “Blackmailed”
– Nancy Kay Bowden

Finalist in the Emily contest: “The Devil's Obsession”
– Stacey Purcell  

Finalist in the Four Seasons contest: “A Kiss in the Wind”
– Jennifer Bray-Weber

Finalist in the NJRWA Put Your Heart In a Book Contest:  “The 25th Hour” Book I of The Sheridan Chronicles
– Jaye Garland

Finalist in The Heart of Excellence Readers’ Choice Award: “Drive Me Wild”
– P.J. Mellor

 

“Learning to Let Go” by Elizabeth Pina

- awarded first place by readers in the Faith, Hope, and Love’s Inspirational Readers’ Choice Contest.

- First place in the Inspirational Category of the Lories Best Published contest.

- Second place in the Sweet Contemporary category of the Romance Writers Ink 2010 More Than Magic contest.

- Third place (tie) in the First Book category of the Romance Writers Ink 2010 More Than Magic contest.

 

Kerrelyn Sparks’ sixth book from the Love at Stake series,
“Secret Life of a Vampire”

-  tied for first place in the PRISM contest.

-  won the award of Excellence contest, paranormal category, sponsored by the Colorado RomanceWriters.

 

Her September release“Eat Prey Love”

- will be a featured alternate in the Rhapsody/Doubleday Book Club.

 

 Jo Anne Banker’s new work in progress “Lost and Found”

-  finaled in the series contemporary category of the Tampa Area Romance Author's 2010 TARA contest.

 

 

 

New Releases

 

 

RM Brand's novel By Virtues’ Design, the first of in a series, is coming out October 15th.

Terri Molina's novel Forget Me Not will be released at Decadent Publishing on October 7.  It's a romantic suspense about a woman who goes into hiding when she learns a serial killer has fixated on her.  It can be considered an Hispanic version of The Bodyguard.

Judythe Morgan's short story came out in June in an anthology titled The Dog and her last romance story was published by Dorchester Media, May 2011.

 

Cheri Jetton's "Crimson Snow" is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble as an ebook. 

Loretta Wheeler,  writing as L Reveaux, released her paranormal short "The Rising" on Amazon and ebook.com.  Erotic Dreamspell (Siren's Call is her short inside) is on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

 

Melissa Ohnoutka's "Faithful Deceptions" is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble as an ebook with a print copy due out the middle of March.

 

William Simon's "Spider's Tango" has been accepted for the forthcoming anthology THILLER 3 from International Thriller Writers, edited by Sandra Brown. Pub date, Summer 2012.



Anna Kathryn Lanier's "GIFT BEYOND ALL MEASURE" released on December 8 through Wild Rose Press.  A FREE companion cookbook for the story is available on her website: www.aklanier.com from December 8-31.  Join Anna Kathryn for a booksigning at Boomerang Books in Webster (Hwy 518) on December 18 from 12-4.   Anne Marie Novark, Skhye Moncrief and our own Elizabeth Pina will be appearing with her.

 

Robin Badillo's first trilogy, JOURNEY OF THE DAMNED: FORBIDDEN, was released December 1, and is available from www.devinedestinies.com . The series will conclude with the final installment's release on February 1, 2011.

 

Teri Thackston, writing as Téa Trelawny, announces the release of her newest book WOOD-LOVIN' NYMPH. This erotic romance is written in the fantasy vein, and is a quickie' from Ellora's Cave.  WOOD-LOVIN' NYMPH is available at www.jasminejade.com beginning September 9, 2010.