This week Kindred in Death by J.D.Robb was released this past week. I was lucky and got to read an early copy, so I didn’t need to make the tough decision to buy or to borrow. However, as the economy still stands in flux I couldn’t help but wonder if the pricing war that I’ve heard about regarding the preordering of certain books was effecting the number of holds at my local library. Earlier this year I did a blog about the number of holds on certain books, and really wasn’t surprised by what I had found, but this time I was amazed! My local library is ordering ten copies of Kindred In Death and as of the writing of this article should I want to place a hold I would be number sixteen. Should I have placed a hold on it on the day of release I would have been number ten. An online friend checked into placing a hold for Kindred in Death and found out that her library is getting four copies and she will be number thirteen on the hold list. To read more of Sandi’s blog and to comment for a chance to win please…

Once upon a time the only place you saw movie trailers was in your local theater, shortly before the movie started. These days, all you have to do is “Google” to find a trailer for an upcoming movie—any upcoming movie. Have you looked around out there? Now it’s not just movies getting their thirty to forty-five seconds in the spotlight, but books too! I’ve been writing for…let’s just say many years, and I’ve seen many changes in publishing. One of the most interesting aspects of being a published author in 2009 is book trailers. I consider myself incredibly lucky that my husband Michael has the time, the talent and the staff to produce my trailers as well as my video newsletters. Normally, we’re very on the ball and the trailers are planned out way in advance of a book’s release so that it can be sent to online book retailers, but Rainwater sort of snuck up on us. You see, Simon & Schusterbought the manuscript and then decided it would make a great holiday book. To read more about the making of the book trailer for Rainwater and to comment for a chance to win please click here. Visit FreshFiction.com…

Being an author of fiction, I suppose some people might find it hard to believe what I tell them at times. After all, I get paid to make things up. But in the online news today, I found an interesting post that was first reported by the BBC, that reminded me YOU CAN’T MAKE UP STUFF BETTER THAN REAL LIFE. A Somali man who claims to be 112 years old just got married. Now that’s a man who is optimistic about his future, but get this. He married a 17-year old girl-and he hopes to have more kids by her. The bride wouldn’t comment-no kidding (snort)-but her family told the press that she was “happy with her new husband” even though he is nearly a century older than she is. To read more about the news through Jordan’s rose colored glasses please click here. Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

I think Jane Austen wrote about me. No, I’m not off my meds, and yes, I realize that dear Jane has been dead for almost two hundred years (and no, I’m not that old). Nonetheless, in my narcissistic view, I am Elizabeth Bennet . The wonderful thing about Jane Austen’s characters is that I’m not alone. Millions of women have turned the last page of Pride and Prejudice sighed, and wondered “when will my Darcy come?” I believe that’s more than a wish for the perfect gentleman (and don’t get me started on whether Darcy was actually a gentleman!); I believe it’s an affirmation that the reader has become so enamored of Elizabeth that she sees herself as Elizabeth. Who doesn’t want to believe that they are pretty, witty, and saucy enough to knock the stockings off the hottest catch in town? To read more of Sara’s blog and to comment for a chance to win please click here. Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

Prequel to THE LAST QUARRY October 2008On Sale: September 30, 2008Featuring: Quarry256 pages ISBN: 0843959657EAN: 9780843959659Mass Market Paperback$6.99 Mystery Hard Boiled Buy at Amazon.com 2009 Anthony Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins Killing is a young man’s game… BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins’ acclaimed novels—most recently THE LAST QUARRY, which told the story of the assassin’s final assignment (and was the basis for the feature film The Last Lullaby). But where did Quarry’s story start? For the first time ever, the best-selling author of ROAD TO PERDITION takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry’s first job: infiltrating a college town and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins… Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

March 2009On Sale: March 1, 2009416 pages ISBN: 0060837373EAN: 9780060837372Paperback (reprint)$14.99 Women’s Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews After years of hard work, Gina Foxton, chef extraordinaire and former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion, is hosting her own show, Fresh Start, on Georgia public television. She’s also dating the producer. But when Fresh Start goes bad—and her boyfriend is caught in flagrante delicto with the boss’s wife—Gina decides it’s time to pursue bigger dreams. Namely a gig on national television. Gina knows she’s destined to be the Cooking Channel’s next superstar. But the execs also have their eyes on Tate Moody, Mr. “Kill It and Grill It” himself, host of the hunting, fishing, and cooking show Vittles. The ultimate man’s man, Tate is a tasty side of beef with a large, swooning female fan base. Gina’s loyal devotees consist of her free-spirited college-dropout sister and her mother . . . who calls every single day. When the smoke clears there can be only one TV chef standing, and Gina and Tate are ready for the cook-off of their lives. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

Sarah Langan Win a copy of Sarah Langan’s latest AUDREY’S DOOR. And don’t miss the FREE e-edition of free e-edition of THE KEEPER up at Amazon.com, BN.com and Sony E-Reader Store. Some doors lead to all the wrong places. OrderAUDREY’S DOOR Today On Sale: September 29, 2009 When budding architect Audrey Lucas abandons her live-in boyfriend for a flat in the Breviary, an architectural landmark on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, her newfound freedom comes at a price. Her apartment’s gruesome history includes a deranged mother who drowned her children in the bathroom’s claw-footed tub. Yet ghosts and the strange habits of her eccentric fellow tenants of the building are nothing compared to the horrors she unleashes within herself when, after sleepwalking during torturous dreams, she starts constructing a door in the middle of her living room. Visit Open Audrey’s Door Check out the spooky trailer for AUDERY’S DOOR A big thank you to Avon Books! A spooky, horrorific book trailer… don’t be scared! Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

When I sat down to write this blog I really had no idea what to write about! All I could think of was the zillion and one things I had on my to do list. There were the normal household chores that tend to get put off until the weekend, and I had to remember to hit the vet’s office for my older dog’s medicine so she could jump on the bed more easily, and perhaps not have those nighttime potty accidents as she sleeps. Of course what I really wanted to do was read. I had started the final book in Carly Phillips Corwin Course trilogy, Lucky Break, and was desperate to find out how the series ended. What to do? To read more about what Sandi did please click here. Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

Candy’s Inside BooksA look at books, authors and movie events There are so many of my friends and favorite authors with books out this month that I’m going to get straight to it! I liked Nikki Duncan’s SOUNDS TO DIE BY, so much that I gave her a cover quote. Rookie FBI Agent Kieralyn Beckett doesn’t want her team to know that the last victim in the kidnapping case they are working was her college roommate. She wants to stay on so that she can find her friend. The only man she can turn to is NSA “listener” Ian Cabrera.  He doesn’t have time to help her until he hears something in the recording she brought him. It just so happens that he hears something that might be a tied to a case he’s working on. Nikki says, “My book comes with a warning: This title contains a blind hero who knows his way around a woman’s body, steamy kitchen sex, verbal sparring, kidnapping evasions, fiery near-death experiences and heart-pounding sensory overload.” When my friend Wendy Lyn Watson was researching her new book I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, she kept making her friends fat. “I included recipes in the book, so…

This weekend the weather has finally cooled in my neck of the woods. It’s the first day in a little over a week without rain, and why I did have an appointment on Saturday afternoon I really had nothing planned. I decided it was a good time to get a start on cleaning and dejunking my home, so that my husband could begin his annual decorating for Halloween. The entryOriginally uploaded by freshfiction In this vein I was able to make several bags of garbage, and to sort my dresser and make not one, but three bags of clothing I haven’t worn in forever for the charity coming next week. I also managed to guilt my husband into making two bags of various items from his stash of treasures. When my youngest came home from bowling I attempted to guilt him into sorting and dejunking as well, but thus far little success there, and my oldest is hopeless, but he wasn’t home this weekend to guilt. To read more about Sandi’s dejunking experience and to comment please click here. Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.