Port Calypso Daily News As we reported last week in the Society pages, Dane Martin of the popular men’s dating advice website virile.com and author of soon to be released self-help book, Coming On Strong, was seen in a compromising position with another local celebrity, Holly Winters. Ms. Winters, whose popular blog girlnextdoor.com gives relationship advice to women struggling to find commitment among the monogamy-shy Virile sycophants, seems like the last woman Martin would dally with as both bloggers’ philosophies are in direct opposition with the other. Winters’ own self-help book, as yet untitled, is to be released next year. Though neither would comment on the romantic nature of their relationship to PC Daily, stating they were “just friends”, they agreed to a joint column this week answering reader questions from their unique perspectives. Each day, we’ll be posting a new question with the He said/She said response. Port Calypso will certainly be watching these local experts as they navigate their “friendship.” We can’t help but wonder if the Girl Next Door has tamed the most Virile man alive…or is she just another notch on the bedpost? Dear Mr. Virile and The Girl Next Door, I was on a date…

John Shakespeare Mystery #4 November 2013 On Sale: November 5, 2013 Featuring: John Shakespeare 500 pages ISBN: 0062301942 EAN: 9780062301949 Kindle: B00CGZXQOE e-Book Add to Wish List Mystery HistoricalBuy at Amazon.com Historical Mystery, one of our favorites Traitor by Rory Clements The Elizabethan Bond is back . . . Under the threat of a second Spanish Armada, John Shakespeare is sent to Lancashire to guard over England’s secret weapon and its inventor, the maverick magician Dr. Dee. But nothing is so simple when the country is a hotbed of secret loyalties and civil unrest. During his mission, Shakespeare stumbles upon Catholic priests in hiding, a mysterious Bohemian seductress, and—of course—murder. Between facing off with a nefarious witch hunter and attending one of the first performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the intrepid John Shakespeare fights to stay alive while on the hunt for a deadly traitor. Previous Picks

Out of Bounds #2 December 2013 On Sale: December 3, 2013 320 pages ISBN: 0425266648 EAN: 9780425266649 Kindle: B00BTRDJBK Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List Romance ContemporaryBuy at Amazon.com Football frenzy begins with playoffs Foolish Games by Tracy Solheim This Hail Mary play for the heart is the latest sports romance in the sizzling Out of Bounds series. Bridal gown designer Julianne Marchione knows better than to lose her head at a client’s wedding. But, much to her embarrassment, a mix of migraine medication and a smoking hot football player lead to a steamy one night stand resulting in a surprise pregnancy. Julianne has every intention of leaving her NFL hookup far in the past until her son, Owen, is born with a life-threatening blood disorder that requires a transfusion—and Julianne is not a match. Will “William the Conqueror” Connelly grew up tough, shouldering the stigma of being a bastard child born on the wrong side of the tracks. He refuses to let any child face the same discrimination. When he finds out about Owen, he’s furious that Julianne kept his son a secret. But when he sees her again at the hospital, he realizes that his feelings for…

Kindle: B00GKBIPH8 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary, Multicultural African-AmericanBuy at Amazon.com Football playoffs and time for romance. Also FREE on Kindle I’ll Catch You by Farrah Rochon He’s through playing the field…or is he? Cedric Reeves has just been sidelined, and the bad-boy pro footballer suddenly finds himself without an agent or a prayer of getting back in the game. What he needs is someone pulling for him…someone like gorgeous go-getter Payton Mosely. A media-hounded celebrity like Cedric is just what the ambitious up-and-comer Payton needs to jump-start her career. That’s why she’s waging a no-holds-barred campaign to land the Saber running back as her first client. But how’s the NFL sports agent supposed to keep things strictly professional when Cedric pursues her with a passion no sane woman can resists? Could this sexy bad boy be good for her after all? Fun, sassy and sexy tale about a bad boy NFL star and a hard negotiating player agent Previous Picks

Welcome, everyone! Today I’ll be interviewing the hero from my fourth “line” story, the sexy, confident firefighter-slash-restoration specialist, Aaron Fisher. Aaron never says no to helping out a friend, but when his buddy is injured and asks Aaron to take a construction job restoring the town’s local sweet shop after a kitchen fire, he gets more than he bargained for in the shop’s feisty new owner, Harper McGee! Aaron (breaking into that super-sexy grin): Hey…I wouldn’t say I got more than I bargained for. Maybe just more than I expected at first. Me: Mmmm-hmmm. You and Harper did have quite the interesting meet-up. You two didn’t quite get along at first. Aaron: Yeah, we definitely had a few differences of opinion. We’re both pretty headstrong people. I don’t think I could’ve gone for an opposites attract thing—I need someone who’s tough enough to give me a run for my money, you know? So in the end, we turned out pretty perfect for each other. Me: Aw, you’re still a tell-it-like-it-is kind of guy, huh? Aaron: Yup! Harper says it’s her favorite thing about me, actually. Me: Well, she’s got a long list of things to choose from. How’s she liking…

Kindle | nook | iTunes | Kobo | Amazon | Barnes and Noble From debut author, Traci Andrighetti, comes a tale of murder, mayhem, and meddling Sicilian grandmas… A Franki Amato Mystery “Traci Andrighetti’s Limoncello Yellow had me tickled pink! Her smart, sassy heroine wacky cast of characters, and vividly original settings had me glued to the page. I can’t wait to read more from this author!” – Gemma Halliday, New York Times bestselling author Francesca “Franki” Amato is a tough-talking rookie cop in Austin, Texas—until an unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces her once and for all that she just isn’t cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica’s detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. But Franki’s hopes for a more stable life are soon dashed when Private Chicks is hired by the prime suspect in a murder case to find out what really happened to a beautiful young boutique manager who was found strangled to death with a cheap yellow scarf. When she’s not investigating, Franki is hoping to seduce handsome bank executive Bradley…

Renegade Royals #1 e-book Kindle nook | iTunes | Kobo Paperback Amazon Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Powell’s Books IndieBound Book Depository “If the remainder of Kelly’s Renegade Royals series is as arresting and entertaining as this kickoff, then Regency romance fans are in for a royal treat… Kelly combines diverting dialogue, delightful surprises, and finely tuned pacing to make this a winner.” ~Starred review, Publishers Weekly Now on shelves—Vanessa Kelly’s Secrets for Seducing a Royal Bodyguard! I confess that I’ve always been fascinated by British royalty, especially bad boys like Prince Harry.  After all, who doesn’t like a handsome prince, especially one with a bit of an edge?  And so I developed The Renegade Royals, my new Regency-set romance series featuring heroes who are the illegitimate sons of England’s royal princes.  In SECRETS FOR SEDUCING A ROYAL BODYGUARD, book one in the series, my hero is the bastard son of that famous royal scoundrel, the Prince Regent. Unlike his father, however, Aden St. George is a loner who rejects a life of privilege for one of danger as a British spy.  Aden is about to embark on his most dangerous mission yet—rescuing the beautiful and brilliant Lady Vivien Shaw from…

I received an email today that made me positively giddy. No, I didn’t get a great review. Well, I did, but that’s not what caused the main giddiness for this morning. I got an email from my 9 year old’s school. I get an email every time he takes a test on a book he has read. It’s called an “AR” test, which stands for accelerated reading. It’s kind of like book reports used to be when I was young. I would read a book and write a report. Well, now they read a book and take a quiz, and they get points for each quiz. My son’s school emails me every time he takes a quiz. He used to take the quizzes and I would get emails about how poorly he did. He hated reading worse than he hated taking a bath. And that’s saying a lot. He hated it worse than cleaning the bathroom. Or washing dishes. The tests came back at 20%. 40%. 60%. They were low enough to rock a writer’s world. Imagine the horror of having a kid who hates to read. You can’t, can you? I make my living on books. I grew up…

I remember watching Romeo and Juliet on TV for the first time and loving it. This was a long time before the Baz Luhrmann production (which I also really like). The one I first saw was the Zeffirelli version. I was about 14 at the time so of course the idea of having this amazing love was fascinating. However I always hated the ending. I love a happily ever afters. Years later I discovered Tristan and Isolde (another love story that ends in tragedy). I love the film and hate the ending. I want it to work out for the lovers. They’ve struggled so much they deserve to be happy! Both tales are about forbidden love. I think they are meant to be a morality tale about crossing lines and loving the wrong person. Personally I see them as epic love stories that ended in tragedy because of a few bad decisions. They could have been together if they’d done it differently. When the idea for Lord of the Hunt first came to me I knew that Taryn and Verden shouldn’t be together. And I knew the black moment was going to be the point where Romeo and Juliet, and…

My latest book, THE PURCHASE, is being called historical fiction. And I suppose it is. But writing historical fiction is a mug’s game. Are we recreating the past, or creating it? While writing, I am imagining things that never happened, trying to make it seem like they did, like they were part of the actual pageant of history, like they make as much sense as the history we all learned in school, some of which was also a fiction. While writing, I am leaning backward from my 21st century chair and hoping to smell things that no longer even exist, to create medicines and foods and conversations I have never heard or seen or tasted. So, I am turning myself into the past! I am becoming a way in which it can exist in the present. And if all events are with us forever, as causes and effects, then I am translating something from a language I’ve never heard. As I would translate the work of a stranger who speaks a language I don’t understand – a stranger who provides me with a dictionary. How can I enter the mind of a slave, male, black, his mother an African captured…