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Fresh Takes from the Teen Shelves / February 17, 2010

As I write this, it is really cold outside. Perfect weather for some escapist fun. Let’s start with a little art heist adventure. In a teen book, you say? Considering that Ally Carter’s popular Gallagher Girls series concerns a girl’s boarding school that fronts for a spy training academy, I’d say she has a handle on escapist teen adventure. HEIST SOCIETY concerns 15 year old Kat, the daughter of master art thieves. She’d love to leave con-artist life for a normal one. But the larcenous world pulls her back in when a powerful mobster is robbed in a heist that could only have been pulled off by Kat’s dad. The only solution for saving her father? Track down the paintings and steal them back. She’s got two weeks, a teenage crew of co-conspirators, and just enough talent (she hopes) to pull of the biggest heist in her family’s history. Asked to compare this new book to her popular GG series, Carter says they’re both packed with “teenagers doing exciting, fast-paced, and probably dangerous things.” Where the GG books are set in a female dominated world, Kat has to deal with a lot of boys, which is something that the author…

Nikki Logan | The Nature Of Writing
Uncategorized / February 17, 2010

Thanks for having me over to FreshFiction, Faye. They don’t come much fresher than a debut author, I guess! My first book ‘Lights, Camera…Kiss theBoss‘ hit shelves in North America and UK last week and I’m still in that warm, happy-glow phase 🙂 I’ve already had a few reader queries about my ‘nature-based’ focus so I thought I’d chat a bit about that with you today. Working on the principle that you should write-what-you-know I decided to focus my love-stories in and around natural places or species that I’m familiar with. I work in a conservation organisation with people who crawl through rainforests tracking orangutans or who fit tiny little radio-transmitters to marsupials in the outback or rescue dangerous wild dogs in even more dangerous parts of Africa. I was hungry to make a contribution too, but that kind of super-human example has a way of making a girl feel a little inadequate! When I decided to start writing I knew it would be romance and I knew it would be around nature. I love love-stories and I love wildlife. And I looked around and found no-one was particularly specialising in nature-based romance. What better way to share my passion…

Fresh Pick | SEX DRIVE by Susan Lyons
Fresh Pick / February 17, 2010

Wild Ride to Love #1December 2009On Sale: December 1, 2009Featuring: Theresa Fallon; Damien Black320 pages ISBN: 0758238258EAN: 9780758238252Paperback$12.95 Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com Sex Driveby Susan Lyons Over the limit… When Dr. Theresa Fallon meets a long, lean stranger in business class, she’s suddenly ready for anything. There’s something about Damien Black that makes her want to surrender immediately… Which is why she accepts Damien’s spontaneous offer of a sizzling getaway. All in the name of research, of course. And once the pretty professor slips between the sheets with this hard-bodied man of mystery, she discovers the meaning of the term erotic pleasure… This hot story has enough humor to make you laugh out loud and enough heat to set the pages on fire. Excerpt [Theresa and Damien, strangers, were seated side by side in business class. He’s been flirting and she’s found herself responding. Now dinner is over…] When the flight attendant had gone, Damien watched Theresa add milk to her coffee and stir. Her bare arm moved in circles, graceful and feminine. A smart, strong woman, yet vulnerable and wary. She must have had other lovers since her divorce, but her ex had done such a number…