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Fresh Pick | WANNA GET LUCKY? by Deborah Coonts
Fresh Pick / June 19, 2011

May 2010 On Sale: May 11, 2010 Featuring: Lucky O’Toole 352 pages ISBN: 0765325438 EAN: 9780765325433 Hardcover $24.99  Add to Wish List Mystery Woman Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Should win RITA(tm) for either best 1st or strong romantic elements Wanna Get Lucky? by Deborah Coonts A young woman plunges from a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter, landing in the Pirate’s lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle of the 8:30 Pirate Show. Almost everyone writes her off as another Vegas victim. But Lucky O’Toole smells a rat. She’s head of Customer Relations at The Babylon, the newest, most opulent mega-casino and resort on the Strip, so she’s got a lot on her plate: the Adult Film industry’s annual awards banquet, a spouse-swapping convention, sex toy purveyors preying on the pocket-protector crowd attending ElectroniCon…. Still, Lucky can’t resist turning over a few stones. When a former flame is one of the snakes she uncovers, Lucky’s certain she’s no longer dealing with an anonymous Sin City suicide. To top it all off, Lucky’s best friend Teddie—Las Vegas’ finest female impersonator—presses to take their relationship to the next level. Leave it to Lucky to attract a man who looks better…

Julianne MacLean Releases Four Books in One Day – How is that possible?
Author Guest / June 19, 2011

Big news – I have a brand new book out which I have been keeping under wraps until now.  To quote Connie Brockway, I have “gone rogue” with this one, and I am releasing it independently. It’s called THE SEXY GIRL’S GUIDE TO COWBOYS, and it’s a wild, quirky time travel romance that takes a modern day heroine back to Dodge City in the Old West.  Official release date: June 20. It’s a story I wrote in 1995, when I was still an unpublished writer and time travels were all the rage.  When I finished it, however, publishers weren’t buying time travels anymore, so I had to shelve it and start something new. I wrote PRAIRIE BRIDE, also set in Dodge City, and sold that book to Harlequin.  It was my first published novel.  After that, I wrote THE MARSHAL AND MRS. O’MALLEY, then ADAM’S PROMISE. Let us now do some time traveling of our own, and skip ahead to the year 2011. Here we are, with Blackberries and Ipads, and the ability to self-publish e-books.  It is astounding, and I love the fact that I can finally deliver this book to readers, and do it quickly without waiting a…