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Member News from 2008
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January 2008 News
Candy Goldapper has good
news from Dawn Thompson
who’s still stuck in a rehab. Her
third book in her vampire series,
THE RAVENING got the 4 1/2
star top pick review from RT.
As for Candy, she just signed a
contract for her novel, THE
BRIDGE TO ETERNITY, with Tiger
Publications due out 2010. She
says, "Now I have to live that long."
February 2008 News
Bianca D'Arc reports that
the novella, WINGS OF
CHANGE, which will be out in
print this March in the I Dream
of Dragons anthology from
Samhain Publishing, was a Top
Ten Finalist in the Preditors &
Editors Poll.
HARA’s LEGACY, due in
print this March, has finaled in
the EPPIE Awards and will be
featured on an end cap display
in Borders and Waldenbooks
soon after its release. Book 2 in
the series, DAVIN’S QUEST,
will be out in ebook formats on
February 19th, and in print this
December. The third Dragon
Knights book, PRINCE OF
SPIES, finaled in the CAPA
Awards from The Romance
Studio in the Fantasy Erotic Romance
category.
Barbara Metzger has nice
news. Her book THE HOUR GLASS, March 2007, Signet
Eclipse, had been nominated
for Most Innovative Historical
Romance by Romantic Times.
March 2008 News
Bertrice Small has finished
her October historical for
NAL. The new "old" house is
almost done, and she prepares
for RT in Pittsburgh next
month where she is
up for 3 awards this year. Being
nominated is such an
honor. “But winning is much
better so keep your fingers and
toes crossed for me, LIRWers!”
Bianca D'Arc reports that
HARA’s LEGACY, which is an
EPPIE Award Finalist, will release
in print on March 25th
from Samhain Publishing and
will be featured in endcap displays
in both Borders and
Waldenbooks. Also releasing
that day is the dragon-themed
anthology, I DREAM OF
DRAGONS. The anthology is
in two volumes. Bianca's
story, WINGS OF CHANGE,
which was a Preditors & Editors
Top 10 Finalist is in Volume
One. On March 23rd, a
collection of two of Bianca's
space opera romance tales
will be released by Phaze in a
print volume called Sons of
Amber: Ezekiel & Michael.
Bianca also won a CAPA
Award from The Romance
Studio for her 2007 dragonshifter
book, PRINCE OF
SPIES. She also picked up a
Best Author of 2007 Award
from All Romance Ebooks as
well as a Best Book of 2007 for
Hara's Legacy.
Pam Burford and Good
Twin Pat Ryan (LIRW's newest
member!) will both be giving
workshops at the New
Jersey conference in October.
Pam will speak on editing
your book, and Pat will discuss
the opening hook.
Candy Goldapper has big
news--A HEATED ROMANCE
is out and available
at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Arpil 2008 News
Lisa Levine-Bernstein’s daughter
was accepted to NYU!
Bertrice Small’s house is finished!
Move in day is May 5th!
But first she and George I will go
to RT in Pittsburgh in mid-April.
Doreen Orsini accepted a contract
from Ellora's Cave for her
erotic romantic suspense NO
ONE BUT MADISON. Release
date to be announced.
Debora Rabbitt (writing as
Debora Dennis) sold her first
light-hearted erotic novella to a
brand new e-publisher - Blade
Publishing. THE KANDY
SHOPPE will be available June
1st!
Gina Ardito’s second romantic
comedy, A LITTLE SLICE
OF HEAVEN, finally has a release
date: August 1, 2008.
Bianca D'Arc’s book,
HARA’S LEGACY won the
2008 EPPIE Award for Best
Cactus Rose Romance Authors
Erotic Romance Science Fiction/
Futuristic. She was also asked to
pinch-hit for a workshop at RT
on promoting on a budget. (The
official blurb for the workshop is
on the RT site.)
Roberta Gellis’s last of the
Tudor fantasies, AND LESS
THAN KIND, will be published
in April. This covers the life of
Elizabeth during the reign of her
sister Mary when she was very
often within a hairsbreadth of
losing her head.
The holidays over, Bertrice
Small is busy working on the third
book in her series, "The Border
Chronicles", THE CAPTIVE
HEART. She’s up for Historical
Storyteller of the Year in the RT
Awards as well as a Reviewer's
Choice award for her historical
fantasy, THE TWILIGHT LORD
and for best historical set in Scotland,
THE BORDER LORD'S
BRIDE. The house renovations
continue onward. The plumbing
inspection from Southold Town is
done! It's drywall time!
Pam Burford and the Good
Twin, Pat Ryan, enjoyed a two-person
writers' retreat in Saratoga
Springs in early December. They
spent four days brainstorming, revising,
and researching their
WIPs. Plus holiday shopping and
restaurant hopping. They're planning
to make it a regular event.
Bianca was voted Best Scifi
Author of 2007 by the readers
at Rites of Romance. They also
awarded her Best Paranormal
Book of 2007 for FOREVER
VALENTINE, Best Erotic Book
of 2007 for HARA’S LEGACY,
and Best Vampire Book of 2007
for SWEETER THAN WINE.
Michele Lang is thrilled to
announce the release of her
March Shomi SF romance,
NETHERWOOD, a futuristic
Robin Hood story set in an
offworld, sentient Sherwood
Forest. NY Times bestselling
author Susan Squires says
NETHERWOOD is “original,
exciting…you can’t stop turning
the pages!”