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12/2/2013

 
How's your TBR (To Be Read) pile looking?  Bit sad after the summer break?  

Well, have we got great news for you!  

A number of our SARAs have books releasing in the very near future, so your TBR will be tottering and swaying in the breeze again very soon...


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Following the success of Scandal's Mistress, Bronwyn Stuart has her second book coming out from Carina Press - Behind The Courtesan.  It's available for pre-order from Amazon right now, ahead of it's April 22nd release date.  


When courtesan Sophia Martin returns to the village she fled as a young woman, she knows it won't be a happy reunion—but she can't refuse her brother's request to attend his expectant wife. Trapped until the baby arrives, she must navigate the social rift she caused when she left to pursue a disreputable life—and keep the true reason for her departure from the man she once loved, the bastard son of the Duke who ruined her.

Blake Vale has never forgotten Sophia, but he can't accept the decisions she made, the courtesan's life she leads, or the fact she's cast aside her true self. Plain old Sophia has to be inside this hardened woman somewhere, and he's determined to make her see she doesn't need rich men to be happy, and that their future has nothing to do with the past.

When the dukedom suddenly falls within his reach, Blake must come to terms with his own past and his birthright, and what that means for his future…and Sophia.





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Khloe Wren has been a busy little birdy, with a number of books set for release this year.

Fireworks is a short story available at Smashwords and Amazon.
Louise is down at her beach, going through her annual New Year's Eve ritual. Cleansing herself from the previous year's hurt. Once she's finished, she steps back into the arms of Kosta, her friend and long-time crush. What ensues is a New Year's Eve neither of them will ever forget. 


SEALED WITH A HONEYED KISS: DRAGONS OF FEURY BOOK 1 (Edible Delights Volume 1) is coming out on May 17th with Secret Cravings Publishing.

Eilagh and her four best friends are escaping away from their jobs and lives for a few days to go camping. Fate intervenes and while they are hiking they get whipped away through a portal to The Land of Feury.

The Land of Feury has a problem. A virus killed off all their females years ago and Dimitri, their leader, has no idea how to solve the issue. When Dimitri’s twin, Max, finds a group of five unconscious females he can only hope of what might happen. When Dimitri and Max realise one of the females, Eilagh, is their Desired they are over joyed. But there is trouble brewing, an uprising against Dimitri causes two of the women to be kidnapped. Will they be able to rescue their Desired and her friend in time? Will these five females prove to be the savours their race has been praying for?



But wait, there's more!  Better than a set of steak knives, Khloe has a third book due for release mid-year, with Rogue Phoenix Press, Her Guardian Angel.

The last thing Snow-Leopard Shifter Dominic expects to find at an accident scene is his mate, the beautiful Adele, but after four years of dreaming of her, there she is, right in front of him.  However, winning the heart of his lonely, grieving mate is no simple task.  Just as their relationship begins to heat up a gravely injured child, Kelly, stumbles into their lives after escaping and fleeing her abuser.  Will Dominic and Adele's bond grow stronger as they nurture and protect Kelly?  Will their relationship be able to survive all that fate plans on throwing their way?



Maggie Mundy has sold her manuscript, Hidden Mortality, to Soul Mate Publishing.  We look forward to seeing it in ebook before the end of the year.  Here's a sneak peek from Maggie's website...

Cara just wanted a quiet life to run her catering business but then her Nana informs her she cannot ignore her  Wicca past any longer. This becomes all too apparent when two immortal man are after her. Seth who wants to love her, and Vincent who wants to kill her.

Maggie has also signed a contract with Rogue Phoenix Press for her novella, Blood Scent.  

Trying to die can sometimes be as hard as staying alive. Kellie, is a reporter who wants to make the front page by finding the Parkland's killer in Adelaide. What she finds is a vampire with a death wish. He is saving others from death whilst wishing his own would arrive. Kellie has never let anyone into her life since her mother's death and isn't going to let a vampire get under her skin. Somehow these two will have to fight to keep each other alive. That is going to be hard as they are being hunted by Rogue vampires who want to kidnap her, and vampire hunters who want to kill him.

What a bonza lineup!  

Until next time, happy reading, 

Emmeline.

SARA News - read with care...

6/8/2012

 
There is so much news, we're bursting at the seams!  

You might need two biscuits to get you through this one.  

And you'd better make them Tim Tams.  :)


Congratulations to Lilliana Rose, who has been selected as the Round 1 Writer in Residence at the South Australia Writer's Centre (SAWC)

This, from the SAWC Newsletter:
WRITERS IN RESIDENCE 
SAWC is delighted to announce the first two writers who have been successful in our Writers in Residence Project. We will be welcoming Lilliana Rose (round one) and Dr Ianto Ware (round two).
Lilliana will be rewriting her YA contemporary novel during her residency, with a particular focus on character development. The novel has already received interest from a notable publisher. Lilliana is known for her published poetry, and is part of many strong writing networks.



SARAs are on a roll at the story website Alfiedog.com.  Head over for some short story wonderful.

Here are the links:
Claire Baxter
Lilliana Rose 
Maggie Mundy
Suzie Hindmarsh-Knights
Virginia Taylor

Congratulations to those ladies!


We also have a number of member websites that have gone live recently.  
Check out:

www.suziehindmarshknights.com
www.maggiemundy.com
www.virginiataylor.com

While you're surfing, check out these new blog posts:
Lillian Grant (Win her latest release as she rampages around the blogosphere, performing a very enthusiastic bloghop!)
Eleni Konstantine
Tamara Gill (Includes a Goodreads giveaway of her upcoming release!)
Emmeline Lock



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Excellent reviews for Bronwyn Stuart's Scandal's Mistress rolling in.

Have a look at this one from Night Owl Reviews.  

And this one from Imagine A World.

In the lead up to RWA Conference, you might also like to visit Bron's blog and read her post on pitching: Pitching and queries and not wetting your pants.  



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Eleni Konstantine has a cover for her new Musa release, a novella called GATEWAY TO HELL, due for release on September 7th.    

Congrats, Eleni!

While the adulation is heading Eleni's way, we should also blow a cornet for her Commended gong in the RWNZ's Clendon Award.  

*TOOT!*  :)

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Tamara Gill also a has a new cover, this one for A Stolen Season, a regency time travel romance, to be released by Crimson Romance on August 27th.  Congrats, Tam!

Archaeologist Sarah Baxter had a clear directive: travel back to nineteenth century London to retrieve the measuring device she left behind. But her bungled attempt at thievery left an English Earl dead and his brother bent on revenge. Sarah must once again go back in time to find the device and return to her own time before her tragic mistake puts a noose around her neck. Unfortunately, the only way to get close to the device is to befriend the very man who wants her dead.

Eric, the new Earl of Earnston, was determined to catch the woman who killed his brother, but she’d disappeared without a trace. Twelve months on and there are still no clues to her whereabouts. As luck would have it, he finds a distraction. A new family have arrived in town and Miss Sarah Baxter is a delightful diversion among the stale debutantes in the ton.

Sarah knows it is madness to seduce the man who would want her dead should he know who she was, but the Earl is an alarmingly persistent gentleman. Can Sarah procure the device without her secret being revealed? And what will the Earl do when he finds out the woman he’s in love with is not the woman he thought he knew?



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Congrats also to those SARAs who made the RWA's Bestseller Lists for June:

Amazon US
Anthologies Top 100
A Captain’s Order – A Duke’s Command – Tamara Gill

Amazon US
Series Top 100
Forbidden: The Sheikh’s Virgin – Trish Morey


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Trish Morey has been a busy little...writer.  Not only was she recently in the US to celebrate her RITA nomination with A Storm WIthin, but she has a new release out!  THE SHEIKH'S CONVENIENT VIRGIN is in the anthology Innocent in the Desert, HM&B Special Format.  


Until next time, happy reading!

Emmeline.  x

First sale!!

13/11/2010

 
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Tamara Gill celebrates her first sale!!!

Her short story, To Sin with Scandal will be released by Noble Romance Publishing on the 27th December 2010. 

It is an erotic Regency Naughty Nibble. 

Congratulations Tamara!!!


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