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August 10, 2007 - Twilight Fantasies

August 14, 2007 - Mardi Gras Publishing

August 16, 2007 - Midnight Showcase

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August 19, 2007 - Whiskey Creek Press

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August 27, 2007 - S.D. Grady, Carol McKenzie, Anastasia Rabiyah & Dawne Dominique

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September 5, 2007 - Mojocastle Press

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~ Quirky Question of the Month ~

Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
So the moon doesn't have to. ~ Lucinda Betts

It's part of God's plan to make women completely confusing to man. If the guy portion of the human race is going to focus so much on physical stuff, then God decided to make it totally confusing for them. It's just God's way of toying with man's little brain (and the big one too). ~ Jade Lee

Because women need to be beautiful and light hair with dark skin is so pretty ~ Karen Kay

Cause hair whitens as it burns whereas skin reddens when it burns. That's what the sun rays are doing, burning you or at least me. Forget that tan thing, I don't do that LOL. ~ Mechele Armstrong

Stuffed if I know...LOL ~ Maggie Nash

That's just the way humans cook. How else could we tell we were done? ~ Michelle M. Pillow

If I could figure that out, I'd have saved a fortune at the salon and beauty spa. Sigh. ~ Sahara Kelly

Because it's a conspiracy cooked up by Mattel so we'll all to look just like Barbie. It's true I saw it on a TV show. Okay, so I dreamed it after falling asleep in front of the TV after eating too much pizza, but still, it's as good a theory as any. ~ Jenna Leigh

Cause it can. ~ Savannah Black

Mother Nature enjoys neutrals. Well, except for green grass, and blue skies, and rainbows... uh, oh, I may have to work on my theory. ~ Kimber Chin


~ Favorite Covers from FAR Angels ~

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~ Featured Reviews ~

Recommended Reads for July 2007
Adventures In Amethyst Series by Karen Wiesner
And The Truth Will Set You Free by Linda Rettstatt
Blackberry Pie by Bonnie Dee
Captive Hearts by Teresa J. Reasor
Caressed By Ice by Nalini Singh
Code Name: Bikini by Christina Skye
Dark Lord Seeks Friendship, Maybe More by Elisa Viperas
From The Ashes by Aurelia Abbott
The Gift Of Sun: Hamets Awakening by Lee Ann Ward
In Darkness Reborn By Alexis Morgan
Incognito: Collaring Kat by Madison Layle & Anna Leigh Keaton
Island Of Temptation by Claire Thompson
Just Like In The Movies by BA Tortuga
Last Breath by Mariah Stewart
Legs by Dee Dawning
Lucky Number Seven by Anh Leod
The Lure Of The Wolf by Jennifer St. Giles
Making Chase by Lauren Dane
Married to the Marine by Michelle Libby
One Knight To Cherish by Catherine Kean
Perfect Kisses by Susan Johnson, Sylvia Day and Noelle Mack
Pleasure by Adrianna Dane
Reversing Over Liberace by Jane Lovering
Samburu Hills by Jennifer Mueller
A Slaves Way Out by C A Salo
Slip & Fall by Nick Santora
Spin It Again by Red Garnier
Traceless by Debra Webb
Trouble by Sasha White
Unveiling The Sorceress by Saskia Walker
Waiting For The Big One by P.G. Forte


~ Reader Question of the Month ~
If you could ask any published author a question, who would you choose and what question would you ask?

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~ Reader Question & Answers from July ~
What are you currently reading?

I just finished reading Kathy Love's My Sister is a Werewolf, Anya Bast's With Fire, and Robin D. Owens' Heart Dance. Recommend them all! - Amy T.

Congratulations to Amy T. who won an PDF copy of Son of Cain, book 3 in the Followers of Cain series from author Savannah Black

~ Author Spotlight ~
Sara Reinke
sarareinke.com
Release day is here; buzz is out, anticipation fierce, how do you spend the first day of a new book release?

Honest to God, on the release day for Dark Thirst, I called around to local bookstores to see if it was in stock and pretended I was just a curious prospective reader, not the author. (Sad, I know, LOL) Then everyone I knew gave me money and sent me out on my lunch break with one of my friends to go and buy copies of Dark Thirst for them. Ordinarily, I might have further celebrated by grabbing a margarita with dinner at my favorite Mexican restaurant (which is my usual celebratory splurge with anything remotely related to writing success, LOL), but when Dark Thirst hit shelves - July 3 - I was nine months pregnant and a week away from a scheduled C-section, so no margaritas for me. I settled for just standing there, gawking at my book at my local Borders store like a moron, seeing my name next to Karen Robards and Nora Roberts on the shelf and wondering if I should ask someone to pinch me.

Now that your latest book Dark Thirst is out have the reviews and reader feedback been what you expected from your less than physically perfect hero?

LOL - you make it sound like Brandon has a third arm. He's deaf and mute in the story, and yes, I actually had some reservations as to how readers would react to him, given he's very much not your typical alpha-male/romance hero. He's far from weak or defenseless, however, and I really tried to impart that in the story. He doesn't feel sorry for himself, and I didn't want readers to, either. (In fact, Brandon considers being a vampire his true handicap, not being deaf or mute.)

I've been absolutely delighted by the response not only he, but the book, have been receiving. I'm getting emails every week from readers all over the country, who have enjoyed Dark Thirst and want to know when the sequel will be released (which will be July, 2008). And so far the reviewers have been equally kind. Rather than find Brandon's disabilities unappealing, people have empathized with him and his plight, and really embraced him as a new kind of hero - not to mention a new kind of vampire.

Which one of your heroes would you choose if you could have one of them come to life this moment?

I think I'd like to meet Brandon Noble from Dark Thirst. He's not a cardboard cut-out of every other romance novel hero; he's very much a unique character, and not just because he's deaf and mute. I first came up with the idea for him years ago, and something about him has always stuck fast in my mind, and not let me give up on him or the ideas behind the book. I think the biggest reason for that is because he makes such a powerful character arc in the story, from being persecuted by his family to at last taking a stand against them to defend himself and the woman he loves. There was always something earnest and determined about Brandon as I imagined him, a mixture of vulnerability and strength that I found very realistic and intriguing.

Dark Thirst ends with a lot of unknowns that I as a reader really wondered about, is there a follow-up to this story and will all the questions I'm sure you're being bombarded with be answered at that time?

Yes, there will be a sequel. It's untitled as of right now, but is contracted for publication and under way. You'll find it on bookstore shelves in July, 2008. Without giving too much away, I've planned some wicked surprises for some of Dark Thirst's characters, and a terrific adventure that takes them from the bayous of Louisiana to the scenic mountains of Lake Tahoe.

When you imagine your dream existence, what kind of lifestyle are you living, that of the Rich and Famous, Billionaire hermit or some other fabulous lifestyle?

I know this sounds corny, but my dream existence is simply being able to write fiction full-time. That's all I've ever wanted, from the time I was very young. I think that's all I'll ever want to be "when I grow up" - a full-time author. Anything else that would come with being able to do that would just be a bonus.

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Randi del Marco
randidelmarco.com
What major motion picture have you seen that had the most emotional impact on you?

Dirty Dancing. It may be cliché but I was the ugly duckling growing up. My sister was the cute one and every time I commented that I was too big or wore glasses, my mother’s response was that it was ok because I was the one with the brains. So I really identified with Baby on several levels – being the bright one, being patronized and wanting to be in love…

It was just now as I looked it up on IMdb that I realized the writer was a woman. Duh!

I think every woman, everyone, wants to be swept off their feet at least once in this lifetime. In the meantime, and for those times in between when a woman wants a morale boost, there are books. And this is my audience, the sexually aware woman who wants to experience or re-experience that feeling of utter wonder when you can say in truth “He loves me.”

Lust in Las Vegas, your latest release from Rosa Romance Publishing Company, is it as humorous as the blurb suggests?

Absolutely! People take love and lust far too seriously so Pepper’s off-the-cuff commentary both entertains and reduces expectations. Every scene is a winner because there can be no losers.

One of my favorite love scenes is between Ellen Barkin and Dennis Quaid in The Big Easy. The humor there showed me how laughter can involve an audience on a gut level far more so than any perfect coupling.

Sure, every woman would like a Prince Charming to sweep them off their feet, who will take care of them for the rest of their lives, both financially and sexually, but how often does that actually happen? I mean, who among us hasn’t felt a fart coming at the most inopportune moment?

But if you can laugh at it, you put both yourself and your partner at ease. Do you want to spend the rest of your life living up to some sort of unrealistic Hollywood expectation, or hang with a guy with whom you can laugh and play?

Pepper is the one who sees how it is from the inside and with her slightly cynical banter keeps us amused and focused on the important things in life. Love and friendship in the moment.

If you had the chance to be a man in your next lifetime, what well known personality would you come back as?

Winston Churchill? This was a man who saw adventure in his youth as a war correspondent and officer in the Boer War, was the lone voice crying in the wilderness as Neville Chamberlain kept compromising with Adolf Hitler, and came back to lead his country through the Battle of Britain to overwhelming victory in Europe in World War II.

He was a prolific and respected writer and is best known for some of the best speeches of the 20th century. My mother had a 78 (old record) of Churchill’s war speeches and they never ceased to give me goose bumps.

Who can forget the immortal lines: we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Wow. That is one powerful writer.

Your background is pretty extensive, from foreign travel to working as an insider in the film industry. Do you see yourself blending a lot of fact into your erotic fiction titles?

Of course. I think most writers start with what they know. I have my travel and my insider knowledge of the film industry. And of being a woman at the beginning of the 21st century.

While I might never equal Churchill’s knowledge of history, I do know what makes me feel good and if I set my stories against a background with which I am familiar, I can create an environment which is escapist in a good way for women wanting a good read.

My stories offer an insider view on a business that has increasingly fascinated audiences for almost a century. It is accepted that the rules for many of those in the film biz are looser than those in many other communities which gives me a little more liberty to freely explore my lead characters’ sexuality. And it takes them out of their slice of reality to places they may not be able to afford in real life but which they can now enjoy via my books, be it Las Vegas or Nairobi or Vienna.

You have the chance to become one of the magical creatures from your childhood nursery rhymes, which character would you select and why?

The owl in the Edward Lear poem The Owl and the Pussycat.

The owl was willing to set out to see the world, had the confidence to ask the pussy to marry him and ended up dancing unfettered by the light of the moon. This is certainly one of the poems from which I derived my love of language and I wonder where the book ended up. The paper cover was long gone but the hard cover was pink – with water stains from when the basement was flooded… My mother helped at a playschool so maybe she took it in to read to the kids one day. Hopefully it found a new home and delighted other children.

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