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Afternoon Tea with Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Author Spotlight / January 14, 2011

You’re Invited to an … Afternoon Tea with Susan Elizabeth Phillips Susan Elizabeth Phillips on Sunday, January 23rd, 2011! We’ll be gathering in the famed French Room at The Adolphus Hotel with one of the funniest and beloved women romance authors! This is an event you do NOT want to miss! Price $75 and includes a copy CALL ME IRRESISTIBLE to be autographed by SEP. Additional books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips will be available for purchase, portion of sales benefits Plano Family Literacy Purchase Tickets RSVP TO THE MOST RIOTOUS WEDDING OF THE YEAR! Lucy Jorik is the daughter of the former President of the United States. Meg Koranda is the offspring of legends. One of them is about to marry Mr. Irresistible—Ted Beaudine—the favorite son of Wynette, Texas. The other is not happy about it. Not happy at all…. But even though Meg knows breaking up her best friend’s wedding is the right thing to do, no one else seems to agree. Faster than Lucy can say, “I don’t,” Meg becomes the most hated woman in town. A town where she’s stuck with a dead car, an empty wallet, and a very angry bridegroom. Broke, stranded, and without her…

Monica Burns | What’s in a Title?
Author Guest / January 14, 2011

Thanks to Fresh Fiction for inviting me back to talk about my upcoming release, PLEASURE ME. It’s a story about an older woman/younger man story where the hero happens to be a virgin. When trying to come up with a title for the book, my editor and I bounced several ideas back and forth until we settled on PLEASURE ME. One of the really interesting things about my books and titles is that they often prove to have meanings that I don’t see at the time of their creation. I’ll be three-quarters through a book when I’ll write a scene which capitalizes on a minor plot point I’d written at the beginning of the book. It can be something as insignificant as a ring someone wears, something someone says or the actions of a minor character. Then later in the book that insignificant piece of information proves to be a critical component in the storyline. It’s not something that’s planned on my part. It just happens, and I love when it does that. I love how my characters or plots put twists in front of me that enrich the book through character development or surprise plot directions. It’s such a…

Fresh Pick | IN THE DARK OF DREAMS by Marjorie M. Liu
Fresh Pick / January 14, 2011

Dirk & Steele December 2010 On Sale: November 30, 2010 Featuring: Perrin; Jenny 384 pages ISBN: 0062020161 EAN: 9780062020161 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Dark Fantasy week continues… In the Dark of Dreams by Marjorie M. Liu She could never forget the boy with the ice blue eyes… She was only twelve when she saw the silver boy on the beach, but Jenny has never stopped dreaming about him. Now she is grown, a marine biologist charting her own course in the family business – a corporation that covertly crosses the boundaries of science into realms of the unknown…and the incredible. And now he has found her again, her boy grown into a man: Perrin, powerful and masculine, and so much more than human, leaving Jenny weak with desire and aching for his touch. But with their reunion comes danger. For Perrin and Jenny – and all living creatures – their only hope for preventing the unthinkable lies in a mysterious empire far beneath the sea…and in the pwoer of their dreams. Another dark, lyrical, magical and dreamlike story to add to this dynamic paranormal series. When girl meets fish (or how…