Heads You Lose is a joint collaboration between Lisa Lutz (known for The Spellman Files series) and David Hayward (He writes poetry and has a editing/writing company). The authors each write a chapter and then hand it off to the other. In between the chapters there are comments about what is written and David’s foray […]
Kate White is best known as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and several bestselling career bibles including Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead…but Gutsy Girls Do and 9 Secrets of Women who Get Everything They Want. Then in 2002 she decided to try her hand at mystery novels and scored a hit with If Looks […]
Kristin Elizabeth Marshall, a graduate of Boston University with a degree in Psychology, has burst into the literary world with her first book. From the back of the book: Set in the historic and familiar context of what is arguably the most iconic American Family, The Eternal Waltz of Jacqueline Kennedy portrays through elegant, lyrical […]
Yes, it has been over 6 months since I wrote a review but life sometimes gets in the way. That said, I have quite a few books and giveaways over the next month! The first is The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton. Rosy was kind enough to send me a book last fall that […]
Author Mary Jane Clark is probably best known for her suspense series featuring Eliza Blake, co-anchor for KEY news. She has branched out and created a pseudo cozy series called the Wedding Cake Mysteries. It might be more of a cozy than I think, but compared to others it didn’t see as “light” as other […]
A few months ago I reviewed the first book in the Sherri Travis series called Margarita Nights by author Phyllis Smallman. The book showed promise for a new series set in Florida so I decided to check out the next two books in the series, Sex in a Sidecar and A Brewski for the Old Man. […]
NANCY G. BRINKER is the founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. She has served as Ambassador to Hungary and White House Chief of Protocol and as Global Ambassador for Cancer Control for the World Health Organization. She has received the prestigious Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, the Trumpet Foundation’s […]
Susan Bulkeley Butler is an accomplished business woman who shaped her own future at a time when women were not taken seriously as business profesionals. She joined Arthur Andersen & Co. as its first professional female employee in 1965, and 14 years later, was named the first female partner of its consulting organization, Andersen Consulting, […]
Phyllis Smallman is the first receipient of the Arthur Ellis Award for Unhanged Arthur from Crime Writers of Canada in June 2007. She was short listed for the Debut Dagger by the Crime Writers of the UK, and nominated for the Malice Domestic Award in the U.S. Margarita Nights was published in 2008 by McArthur […]
Lori Wilde is the author of over forty-five books for three major New York publishers. Recently, she received a two-book contract from Warner Books based solely on a 25 word ‘high concept’ pitch. When the sale—along with the pitch—was announced on Publisher’s Marketplace, she was approached by eight film production companies interested in optioning her […]