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Debut Authors & Novels- May

Debut Authors & Novels-May

Title: The Better Half
Author: Sarah Harte
Available: May 2011
Synopsis: Anita is a wife on the edge.
Thanks to her husband Frank’s success in business she has lived a lavish lifestyle at the heart of the city’s elite. However, now that the economy is in freefall, it seems the days of boozy lunches with ‘the girls’, glittering charity balls and competitive designer shopping are over.
Still, though the banks are breathing down their necks, and their marriage is far from perfect, Anita had believed she and Frank would pull through. After all, they came from nothing. That was until she heard news that shook both her marriage, and the family she thought happy and secure, to its foundations.
As she faces meltdown, Anita is haunted. Why did she walk away from her one chance to prove herself on her own terms? What happened to the love that was once so overwhelming? And how did she let herself get lost in an empty high-rolling lifestyle?
Anita has to find herself again … but how do you do that when you’re just someone else’s better half?

Title: It Happened In Paris
Author: Mollie Hopkins
Available: May 2011
Synopsis: Evie Dexter, 26, is in pursuit of a career as a European tour guide. Heart set on success and buoyed on by booze, she begins ‘enhancing’ her CV and soon lands a job with Insignia Tours, guiding their Paris breaks. Bursting with professionalism, Evie quickly checks her copy of Vogue Paris to remind herself where France actually is. Task accomplished, she’s determined to become a cultured and respected chaperone. And she would be, if only the French wine weren’t so delicious and Rob, her sexy coach driver, so deliciously distracting …Join Evie on her maiden voyage as Tour Guide Extraordinaire. It’s going to be one hell of a ride.

Title: First Ladies
Author: Kay Burley
Available: May 12 2011
Synopsis: What happens when the power of love challenges the love of power?
‘So, have you met the Prime Minister before?’
Suave PM Julian Jenson has just been re-elected. The nation’s darling, he has an elegance and natural charm in public. But in private the cracks are starting to show.
At his side is his wife, Valerie. Trim, tall, well educated but deeply unhappy – with her son and daughter away at school, alcohol is becoming a trusted friend.
Sally Simpson is at the peak of her game. Powerful editor of the bestselling magazine Celeb, she can’t wait to take her rightful place by Julian’s side.
Sexy TV reporter Isla McGovern has caught Julian’s eye, and she will do anything (or anyone) to get to the top.
When the three women meet, so begins a perfect storm, and only one can emerge as the First Lady.

April 16, 2011
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Author Profile: Laurie Frankel
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Author Profile: Laurie Frankel

Author Name: Laurie Frankel

Website: http://www.lauriefrankel.net/

Bio: Laurie Frankel lives in Seattle where it’s sometimes hard to find a day on which to take an author photo without an umbrella. Originally from Columbia, Maryland, she often fails to understand why it won’t stop raining here. Then it becomes summer in Seattle, and she remembers why she loves it. She teaches writing, literature, and gender studies at the University of Puget Sound. She roots for the Orioles and the Mariners (and thus is often very frustrated during baseball season). She makes good soup. She lives in the city with her wonderful husband, her wonderful baby, and her wonderful border collie. The Atlas of Love is her first novel.
Titles: The Atlas of Love
See my review of The Atlas of Love
Visit Laurie’s Blog! http://lauriefrankel.blogspot.com/
Bio Retrieved from lauriefrankel.net

April 6, 2011
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You Are Invited!
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You Are Invited!

Thank you to Tricia Carr for alerting me to this party! Sorry the picture is a bit small, if I make it bigger it doesn’t…

March 1, 2011
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Author Profile: Stephenie Meyer
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Author Profile: Stephenie Meyer

Author Name: Stephenie Meyer

Website: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/index.html

Bio: Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in English. She lives with her husband and three young sons in Phoenix, Arizona. After the publication of her first novel, Twilight, booksellers chose Stephenie Meyer as one of the “most promising new authors of 2005” (Publishers Weekly). She has since written follow-ups to Twilight, and a novel for adults. The Twilight series came to the box office in 2008, and debuted at #1.

Titles: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Host.
See my reviews of Twilight, New Moon or Eclipse
Bio Retrieved from stepheniemeyer.com

February 24, 2011
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Author Profile: Dee DeTarsio
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Author Profile: Dee DeTarsio

Author Name: Dee DeTarsio

Website: http://www.deedetarsio.com/

Bio: Dee DeTarsio is a television writer living in southern California. After growing up in Ennui, Ohio, she attended Ohio State University. After graduation, she ended up in Tucson, Arizona, producing the news for the CBS affiliate called KOLD-TV. She moved to San Diego where she worked in the SeaWorld entertainment department as a Producer/Writer, and then became a Producer/Writer with NBC for a live, comedy/variety show.

Currently: Dee still lives in San Diego with her husband John, a Director of Photography, and their two children Tyler and Gianna. She is also working on her third novel, Ros.

Titles: Til Somebody Loves You and The Scent of Jade
See my review of The Scent of Jade
Bio Retrieved from kindle-author.blogspot.com

February 22, 2011
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Interview with Nicky Schmidt
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Interview with Nicky Schmidt

Q: When did you first get serious about writing?

I think I’ve always loved to write, Samantha. I was churning out substandard little stories from a young age. In terms of seriousness, it took until my late twenties to realize I had to commit real time and effort to the process of writing, then a few years more to actually achieve the end product. Hence I call myself the Queen of Procrastination!

Q: What do you find to be the most difficult part of the writing process?

About half way through the final edit of a book – when I just want it to be over, so that I can start the next one. Intriguingly this part of the writing process coincides with a sudden and unexpected increase in weight as well! It’s filling in the small details: all the little bits and pieces that you want to get right for the reader, but take hours of research/checking.

Q: Who are some authors that you look up to?

Too many to name, but if pushed, I worship at the altar of Jodi Picoult, who manages to make producing compelling, timely works look so effortless. I try to read a lot of comedy TV scripts too.

Q: What are you currently reading?

John Berendt’s City of Falling Angels, after noticing someone who reviewed my book on Amazon was reading it.

Q: Your second novel, Marrying Out of Money, will in bookstores in April. Can you tell us about the story in twenty words or less?

Sure – a coffee heiress’s social-climbing mother tries to marry her off to a womanizing aristocrat, with disastrous results.

Q: Are you working on a third novel?

Yes! It’s called Anti-model Agency, and the teaser is: revenge comes in all shapes and sizes!

Q: Where do you find the ideas for your books?

The media and the social climate. I try to find something ubiquitous in our world and turn it on its head.

Q: How did you celebrate your first novel, Naked in Knightsbridge, after it was published?

In true Jools’ style: a couple of dozen boxes of Krispy Kremes and some cheap red wine!

Q: Where would be your dream vacation?

At the moment, somewhere warm with a 24-hour buffet. I’m discerning, aren’t I?

Q: What is your advice for aspiring writers?

The only way to achieve your dreams is to write everyday, then rewrite until you have a brilliant book. No shortcuts, I’m afraid.

February 3, 2011
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Author Profile: Heather Gudenkauf
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Author Profile: Heather Gudenkauf

Author Name: Heather Gudenkauf

Website: http://www.heathergudenkauf.com/index.html

Bio: Heather was born in Wagner, South Dakota, the youngest of six children. At one month of age, her family returned to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota where her father was employed as a guidance counselor and her mother as a school nurse. At the age of three, her family moved to Iowa, where she grew up. Having been born with a profound unilateral hearing impairment (there were many evenings when Heather and her father made a trip to the bus barn to look around the school bus for her hearing aids that she often conveniently would forget on the seat beside her), Heather tended to use books as a retreat, would climb into the toy box that her father’s students from Rosebud made for the family with a pillow, blanket, and flashlight, close the lid, and escape the world around her. Heather became a voracious reader and the seed of becoming a writer was planted.
Heather Gudenkauf graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in elementary education, has spent her career working with students of all ages and is currently a Literacy Coach, an educator who provides curricular and professional development support to teachers.
Currently: Heather lives in Dubuque, Iowa with her husband, three children, and a very spoiled German Shorthaired Pointer named Maxine. In her free time Heather enjoys spending time with her family, reading, hiking, and running. She is currently working on her third novel.

Christmas Titles: The Weight of Silence and These Things Hidden
See my review of These Things Hidden
Bio Retrieved from heathergudenkauf.com

February 2, 2011
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Author Profile: Donna VanLiere
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Author Profile: Donna VanLiere

Author Name: Donna VanLiere

Website: http://donnavanliere.com/index.html

Bio: Donna VanLiere is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author and gifted conference speaker. She has published ten titles including The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Blessing, both of which were adapted into movies (starring Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Perry and Neil Patrick Harris) and garnered big ratings for CBS television. LifetimeTelevision adapted The Christmas Hope (starring Madeline Stowe) and premiered it December 2009 to stellar ratings as well. Donna’s non-seasonal novel, The Angels of Morgan Hill, has captured the same warmth as her Christmas books and continues to please loyal and new fans alike.
Donna is the recipient of a Retailer’s Choice Award for Fiction, a Dove Award, a Silver Angel Award, an Audie Award for best inspirational fiction, a nominee for a Gold Medallion Book of the Year and was recently inducted into the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges Hall of Excellence joining such luminaries as Coretta Scott King, Hugh Downs, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Senator John Glenn. Donna is an in-demand conference speaker having appeared at countless women’s and family events, including select Women of Faith and Extraordinary Women conferences.
Currently: Donna lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband, Troy, and their children, Grace, Kate and David.
Christmas Titles: The Christmas Shoes, The Christmas Blessing, The Christmas Promise, The Christmas Hope, The Christmas Secret, and The Christmas Journey.
See my review of The Christmas Journey
Bio Retrieved from donnavanliere.com

January 31, 2011
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Author Profile: Lou Aronica
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Author Profile: Lou Aronica

Author Name: Lou Aronica

Website: http://www.fictionstudio.com/Fiction_Studio_site/Home.html

Bio: Lou became associated with the book world by starting out as an assistant in the Managing Editor’s Department at Bantam Books. He began his first publishing imprint, Bantam Spectra, and published his first New York Times bestseller with that imprint a year later. Lou also launched the Bantam Crime Line mystery imprint, and the Bantam Fanfare romance imprint. He has worked for the Berkley Publishing Group, Avon Books, and The News Corporation. Lou now devotes his time to The Fiction Studio, and is a novelist and non fiction writer. He has also written novels under the name Ronald Anthony.
Titles under Lou Aronica: Blue
See my review of Blue
Bio Retrieved from fictionstudio.com

January 29, 2011
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