Last Sunday my husband and I went shopping. He has decided that we need to attend a dinner for long term employees of the company he works for and therefore I needed a cocktail dress. I was really not looking forward to buying a fancy dress, and especially not with him as my co-shopper. I suppose he knew this as he bribed me first with a new piece of technology. I know am the proud possessor of a new MP3 player that holds a micro sd card that has preloaded music. The card is called slot radio, and while you can’t arrange the songs there are different cards you can buy, and the cards have several different playlists to choose from, and my card has 1000 songs. To read more of TECHNOLOGY MY NEW BEST FRIEND please click here. Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

June 2009On Sale: June 2, 2009Featuring: Alysha Gale368 pages ISBN: 0756405556EAN: 9780756405557Hardcover$24.95 Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com The Enchantment Emporiumby Tanya Huff The bestselling author of the Blood Books delivers a masterful new urban fantasy. Alysha Gale is a member of a family capable of changing the world with the charms they cast. Then she receives word that she’s inherited her grandmother’s junk shop in Calgary, only to discover upon arriving that she’ll be serving the fey community. And when Alysha learns just how much trouble is brewing in Calgary, even calling in the family to help may not be enough to save the day. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

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…

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.

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…

Supernatural Bonds #2 February 2006On Sale: February 1, 2006Featuring: Tristan Lisalli; Storm O’Malley248 pages ISBN: 1419954245EAN: 9781419954245Trade Size$12.99 Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com Available in Kindle as of 11/09! Storm’s Faeriesby Jory Strong The Fates do enjoy their little amusements. Storm O’Malley thought she’d always be a beat cop. But when she helped catch a serial murderer, she became a detective and a member of the elite Homicide squad. Now she’s got a murder to solve and a new reason to call on the gorgeous professor she met on the Dean case. The first time Professor Tristan Lisalli met Storm, she was off limits because he couldn’t afford to get mixed up in a high-profile case. No supernatural could. Much less a noble of the Sidhe court. But after that case was solved, he’d fully intended to challenge his cousin Pierce with the seduction of a woman—with the seduction of Storm. But now Storm is involved in another high-profile case. A murder again, but with a difference. Treasure. No fey creature can resist the legendary Medici Chalice of Eros. But if what Tristan suspects is true, then the real treasure is Storm. He thinks she just might be his…

Went to the west office of FreshFiction (VR) and worked on the books. We’re still processing books from 1/4 and almost done so the arrival of another 97 just adds to the pressure. Processing means opening the packages, sorting by publication dates, entering into our systems: once for sheer number and offering to reviewers and secondly and more important, putting all the data from the book package into our database and thus the website. So conservatively we’re dealing with about 200 books with publication dates of 12/26 to 2/5 range. Every book we enter needs to be checked to see if we have all the information about the book, summary, the books place in a series (or not), an excerpt if available or not, cover information, taglines. If we added videos to the mix we’d go nuts but that is definitely coming, I can see it. It’s hard enough prying the summary and excerpt from publishers and authors. I do NOT understand why authors don’t willing and eagerly supply the information on their websites or in the review packages! It only helps them, ah well. After all the books are entered…actually while two of us are doing data input, and…

Supernatural Bonds #2 February 2006On Sale: February 1, 2006Featuring: Storm O’Malley; Tristan LisalliISBN: 141990311XEAN: 9781419903113e-Book$6.49 Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com Available in Kindle as of 11/09! Storm’s Faeries by Jory Strong The Fates do enjoy their little amusements. Storm O’Malley thought she’d always be a beat cop. But when she helped catch a serial murderer, she became a detective and a member of the elite Homicide squad. Now she’s got a murder to solve and a new reason to call on the gorgeous professor she met on the Dean case. The first time Professor Tristan Lisalli met Storm, she was off limits because he couldn’t afford to get mixed up in a high-profile case. No supernatural could. Much less a noble of the Sidhe court. But after that case was solved, he’d fully intended to challenge his cousin Pierce with the seduction of a woman—with the seduction of Storm. But now Storm is involved in another high-profile case. A murder again, but with a difference. Treasure. No fey creature can resist the legendary Medici Chalice of Eros. But if what Tristan suspects is true, then the real treasure is Storm. He thinks she just might be his forever wife—and…

There are times in every life when we’re soul weary, exhausted and all that’s left in us is to run on faith. And then, when we’re positive things can’t get any worse, they do, and we’re reduced to running on fumes of faith. A while back, I went through a fumes-of-faith situation. Actually, at the time, it seemed like I was down to my last fume. You’ve likely been there and know exactly what I mean. It’s the time when you’re stuck in a situation and feel like you’re living that old saying about having one nerve left, it being frayed, and someone or something is strumming on it like it’s a banjo. For me, the nature of that time took the form of a lot of eye surgeries (tough for a writer to write when she can’t see a thing), lots of pain and feeling awful (not exactly conducive conditions for creativity). Being unable to move much (I had to sit with my eyes closed day after day), I couldn’t read, watch TV, and had to have an escort to move around even inside the house. Doesn’t that time sound like fumes to you? It certainly felt like fumes…

Laura Blackstone #1 August 2009On Sale: July 28, 2009Featuring: Laura Blackstone304 pages ISBN: 0441017436EAN: 9780441017430Paperback$7.99 Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Skin Deepby Mark Del Franco She’ll need to keep up appearances–if she wants to stay alive… A THRILLING NEW URBAN FANTASY SERIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNFALLEN DEAD AND UNQUIET DREAMS. She’ll need to keep up appearances—if she wants to stay alive… Being an undercover agent has its occupational hazards, but Laura Blackstone makes it look easy. As a spy for a fey intelligence agency, she uses her magical abilities to create disguises that are skin deep glamours that must never be compromised. But when Laura’s worlds collide she’ll have more to worry about than retiring an identity; she may just lose her life. Can feys, humans, and other magical creatures coexist peacefully in the modern world? Excerpt As she leaned back in her seat, the van’s motion vibrated against the base of Laura Blackstone’s skull. She rocked her head, hoping it would soothe her tense muscles. It didn’t. Odors tickled her nose—the scent of hot electronics, clean gun oil, and leather uniforms. If someone blindfolded her and spun her around, she’d still know immediately that she was inside a…