“Live” from Nationals: Wild Wednesday with RWA
By: Elisa Beatty on July 29, 2010 at 12:01 am
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The crowds surged in to Nationals on Wednesday–including Nora Roberts and Susan Elizabeth Phillips, who walked past fellow Ruby Sister Kim Law and I in the lobby within about thirty seconds of each other, while we tried very valiantly not to squee (“I love Conference!” said Kim).
Mobs descended on the Registration desks, [...]
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Meet “The Unsinkables”: the 2010 Golden Heart Finalists!
By: Elisa Beatty on June 28, 2010 at 12:01 am
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It sounds like a movie log-line: “On March 25th, 2010, sixty-five strangers received a phone call that changed their fates forever….”
But for this year’s recipients of those much-anticipated calls from the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart® Contest, the news really was life-changing. As various 2010 finalists have put it, they felt “stunned,” “excited, validated,” [...]
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SQUEE! The New Joanna Bourne, The Forbidden Rose
By: Elisa Beatty on June 9, 2010 at 12:01 am
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The last couple weeks brought a bonanza of books by my absolute must-buy authors: Sherry Thomas’s His at Night, Meredith Duran’s Wicked Becomes You, Julia Quinn’s Ten Things I Love About You, Mary Balogh’s A Secret Affair. But all those got left on the TBR pile when I got my hands on an early copy [...]
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Faceless Lovers and Other Cover Trends
By: Elisa Beatty on May 12, 2010 at 12:01 am
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Ah, the classic clinch cover!
My earliest memories of historical romances are imprinted with images of lovers about to engage in acts that look distinctly…acrobatic. Oh, the endlessly flowing tresses! The apparently gale-force winds! The amazingly flexible spines! And Fabio on cover after cover by Johanna Lindsey, working his way through the entire spectrum [...]
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