New York Times bestselling author Angela Knight has three new books out now. First is MASTER OF SHADOWS, the eighth book in the Mageverse series. Tristan, immortal vampire knight of the Round Table, teams up with a beautiful witch to prevent a war with a race of werewolves. In CHAIN OF KISSES, a mercenary starship captain is captured by a handsome prince with erotic revenge on his mind. And in HOPE’S KISS, a beautiful cop discovers her former high school flames has been turned into a vampire when she ends up in a cage with him. MASTER OF SHADOWS Amazon BN.com CHAIN OF KISSES Buy HOPE’S KISS Buy Also available is a novella set in Mageverse MOON DANCE Kindle nook

Who Owns Thor? A legal battle over the ownership of the copyrights for some of the most popular superheros in the Marvel universe has been resolved. The heirs of Jack Kirby, artist, had sent 45 notices trying to terminate Marvel’s copyrights over characters drawn by Kirby. The courts came to the conclusion that the copyrights in question are the sole property of Marvel Comics. The list included Spiderman, Thor, Ironman, the X-men, and the Avengers. Marvel in turn filed a federal lawsuit in January 2010 to officially invalidate the claims of the Kirby heirs. Marvel states that Kirby was hired on a “for hire” basis voiding any artistic claims he or his heirs may have on the product of his work. The comics and characters were published between the years 1958 and 1963 More People Buy e-Books According to Pub Track, a Bowker consumer service, e-books had the largest jump in the publication market in the 1st quarter of 2011 compared to the same quarter in 2010. Even though e-books only represented 6.4% of the spending margin, the unit margin for e-books is 12.4% compared to 2.5% last year. The lower cost of an e-book compared to a Hardcover or…

Elm Creek #17 March 2011 On Sale: February 22, 2011 Featuring: Anneke Bergstrom; Constance Wright; Dorothea Granger 352 pages ISBN: 0525952039 EAN: 9780525952039 Hardcover $24.95  Add to Wish List Historical Buy at Amazon.com Looking at the women in the War Between The States The Union Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini The New York Times bestselling author of the Elm Creek Quilts series joins the Dutton list with a Civil War-era tale of love and sacrifice behind Union lines. With The Union Quilters, Chiaverini delivers a powerful story of a remarkable group of women coping with changing roles and the extraordinary experiences of the Civil War. In 1862 Water’s Ford, Pennsylvania, abolitionism is prevalent, even passionate, so the local men rally to answer Mr. Lincoln’s call to arms. Thus the women of Elm Creek Valley’s quilting bee are propelled into the unknown. Constance Wright, married to Abel, a skilled sharpshooter courageous enough to have ventured south to buy his wife’s freedom from a Virginia plantation, knows well her husband’s certainty that all people, enslaved and free, North and South, need colored men like him to fight for a greater purpose. Sisters-in-law Dorothea Nelson and Charlotte Granger wish safe passage for their learned…

When I first decided to write mainstream women’s fiction with romantic elements, I was plagued by doubts. With romance comes sex. Was I capable of writing convincing love scenes? Would Indian characters wearing saris and kurtis and indulging in carnal pleasures sound realistic to my readers? I realized I would never find out unless I tried to work in a sex scene here and there—lift the sari. I could envision the scandalized looks on the faces of my conservative family and friends when they discovered that wholesome Hindu men and women were reveling in hot, glorious, mind-numbing sex in my stories. And this notwithstanding the fact that India is probably the only ancient culture that boasts a seventeen hundred year-old textbook on the art of love-making, the Kama Sutra. Erotic sculptures abound in centuries-old Indian temples, too. I wonder when Indian society turned prudish. Unlike my fellow South Asian authors, who generally write literary fiction, I had never truly enjoyed the slice-of-life type of fiction I was forced to read for my English literature classes in college. Even the rare love scene was a work of lyrical beauty but sadly lacking in sizzle. I was always a romance reader, in…