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Interview with Sue Ann Jaffarian | Sharon’s Cozy Corner
Sharon's Cozy corner / January 15, 2010

Sharon’s Cozy CornerAll about the cozy mysteries: interviews, reviews, books I’ve always been a curvy-kind of girl, and proud of it! God blessed this Irish gal with an abundant figure, and I learned long ago to accept them for better or worse! So I was delighted to learn about Sue Ann Jaffarian’s mystery series which featured a big, beautiful amateur sleuth, Odelia Grey! Odelia is a paralegal from California, and seems to have a knack for stumbling into murder after murder. Confident, sassy and smart, Odelia is a charming lady that readers are sure to love and admire. Sue Ann has written four delightful mysteries involving Odelia (TOO BIG TO MISS, THE CURSE OF THE HOLY PAIL, THUGS AND KISSES and BOOBY TRAP,) with the fifth in the series, CORPSE ON THE COB, due out in February. She also has another series, The Ghost of Granny Apples, with the first book, GHOST ALA MODE debuting in September 2009, and another one on the way. And if Sue Ann wasn’t busy enough, she is working on a third series, with an adorable vampire couple as the main characters! This is one productive gal! So I was happy that she could spare…

Susan Gourley | The Fame In The Name
Uncategorized / January 15, 2010

Probably one of the most common questions I hear as an author is the source or inspiration for the names I use in my novels. I admit some of them are purely pulled from the tangled and packed neurons firing away inside my brain. Others do actually have a specific meaning. Some are purely my attempt to make a play on words. In my very first published romance novel, The Greater Good by Susan Kelley, the hero is named Juston Steele. His friends call him Just. Get it. Just Steele. As you can deduce from his moniker he’s a pretty impressive sword slinger but the name also fits his personality. Until the heroine gets a hold of him that is. Even the name of that particular series, The Chronicles of Solonia, is a play on words. The name of the colony featured in this futuristic romance series is Solonia as in solo. This colony has lost its entire male population and now all the women are solo. Simple and perhaps a bit silly. To read more of THE FAME IN THE NAME please click here. Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

Fresh Pick | DIVINE MISDEMEANORS by Laurell K. Hamilton
Fresh Pick / January 15, 2010

Meredith Gentry #8 December 2009On Sale: December 8, 2009Featuring: Meredith Gentry352 pages ISBN: 0345495969EAN: 9780345495969Hardcover$26.00 Paranormal, Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Divine Misdemeanorsby Laurell K. Hamilton You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin’s treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir—all for the right to claim the throne. But I turned my back on court and crown, choosing exile in the human world—and in the arms of my beloved Frost and Darkness. While I may have rejected the monarchy, I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. My kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. I must get to the bottom of these horrendous murders, even if that means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother, my rival for fey loyalties in Los Angeles. But even stranger things are happening. Mortals I…