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PRE-RELEASE BLITZ! YOU BEFORE ANYONE ELSE BY JULIE CROSS AND MARK PERINI @TastyBookTours @juliecross1980 @MarkTPerini #breakingthemold

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YOU BEFORE ANYONE ELSE
Julie Cross & Mark Perini
Releasing August 2nd, 2016
Sourcebooks Fire
Bestselling author Julie Cross teams up with international
model Mark Perini to create You Before
Anyone Else, a poignant and authentic contemporary YA novel and companion
to Halfway Perfect.
The supportive friend, the reliable daughter, the
doting big sister: Finley is used to being the glue that holds everyone
together. But while her sweet demeanor makes her the perfect confidant, her
wholesome look isn’t landing her the high-paying modeling jobs, which are what
Finley needs if she is going to reopen her mother’s dance studio.
Enter Eddie. He’s intense and driven, not to mention
the life of every party, and he completely charms Finley. The last thing she
wants is another commitment to stand in the way of her dreams, but when she’s
with Eddie, their chemistry takes over and she can let go of her
responsibilities and just be. After all, what’s so wrong about putting herself
first once in a while?
Except Eddie is hiding a secret. A big secret. And
when it surfaces, he and Finley are going to have to choose between their love
for each other and everything else… 
 
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Julie Cross and Mark Perini, along with Tasty Book Tours, are celebrating those who have taken the steps in Breaking the Mold on society’s expectations,
like Finley, the heroine from YOU BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!  We are looking for anyone who would like to share their story and be entered to win a 2017 Erin Condren Life Planner!
 
Head over to fb.me/TastyBookTours and leave a comment with your story.  Feel
free to share picture of your journey and use #breakingthemold at the end of
your comment!
 
Entries must be in by 11:59pm, Aug 15th, 2016.  No purchase
necessary to enter.  If under 12 years old, you must have approval by a guardian to enter.   
 
Julie Cross is a NYT and USA Today bestselling author of New Adult and Young Adult fiction, including the Tempest series, a young adult science fiction trilogy which includes Tempest, Vortex, Timestorm (St. Martin’s Press).She’s also the author of Letters to Nowhere series, Whatever Life Throws at
You, Third Degree, Halfway Perfect, and many more to come!Julie lives in Central Illinois with her husband and three children. She’s a
former gymnast, longtime gymnastics fan, coach, and former Gymnastics Program
Director with the YMCA.

She’s a lover of books, devouring several novels a week, especially in the
young adult and new adult genres.

Outside of her reading and writing credibility’s, Julie Cross is a
committed–but not talented–long distance runner, creator of imaginary beach
vacations, Midwest bipolar weather survivor, expired CPR certification card
holder, as well as a ponytail and gym shoe addict.

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Mark Perini is a New York City based author debuting his first YA novel, Halfway Perfect.
Additionally, Mark is a featured author in the NA anthology, Fifty First Times.
Mark began his career as an international
fashion model when he was 18 years old, while simultaneously obtaining a
business degree from Seton Hall University. He has a passion for traveling the
world, and he’s made a blood pact with friends to see all seven ancient wonders
of the world before he’s thirty. Four down three to go.
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HALFWAY PERFECT

BLOG TOUR STOP! TO HAVE AND TO HOLD BY LAUREN LAYNE @TastyBookTours

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Sex and the City meets The Wedding Planner in The Wedding Belles!

 

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD
The Wedding Belles #1
Lauren Layne
Releasing July 26th, 2016
Pocket Books

 

Sex and the City meets The
Wedding Planner in The Wedding Belles, her sizzling brand new
contemporary romance series about three ambitious wedding planners who can make
any bride’s dream come true…but their own.
 
Discovering her fiancé is an international conman just moments before they exchange vows devastates celebrity wedding planner Brooke Burke’s business—and breaks her heart. Now a pariah in Los Angeles, she seeks a fresh start in New York City and thinks
she’s found it with her first bridal client, a sweet, if slightly spoiled,
hotel heiress. Then she meets the uptight businessman who’s holding the purse
springs.
Seth Tyler wishes he could write a blank check and be done with his sister’s fancy-pants wedding. Unfortunately, micromanaging the event is his only chance at proving Maya’s fiancé is a liar.

Standing directly in his way is the stunning blonde wedding planner whose
practiced smiles and sassy comebacks both irritate and arouse him. He needs
Brooke’s help. But can he persuade a wedding planner on a comeback mission to unplan
a wedding? And more importantly, how will he convince her that the wedding she
should be planning…is theirs?
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Lauren lives in New York City with her husband (who was her high school sweetheart–cute, right?!) and plus-sized Pomeranian.

Five years ago, she ditched her corporate career in Seattle to pursue a full-time writing career in Manhattan.

She writes smart romantic comedies with just enough sexy-times to make your mother blush, and in her ideal world, every stiletto-wearing, Kate Spade wielding woman would carry a Kindle stocked with Lauren Layne books.

When not bringing The Sexy, she likes to blog about her Instagram addiction, and why mean girls are the worst.

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RELEASE BLAST! WINTER’S TOUCH BY JAMIE BEXLEY (@Tasty Book Tours @Jamie_Begley)

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First Four Votes: The Last Riders Boxed Set

WINTER’S TOUCH

The Last Riders #8

Jamie Begley

Releasing July 19th, 2016

Young Ink Press

As president of The Last Riders, Viper’s only fear was losing his wife. After all,
he had almost lost her once before.

As wife to the president, Winter lived in fear every day: fear that a club enemy
would take Viper from her, fear that one of the club women would tempt him to
stray, fear that she wasn’t enough of a woman for him. One thing Winter didn’t
fear was risking everything to carry her husband’s child, even her health, yet
Viper refused to take the chance.

Losing hope, Winter makes one last ditch effort, determined to make Viper realize that
some things were worth fighting for besides the club.


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Jamie Begley grew up
in a very small, and a very rural town in Kentucky. Growing up poor was hard
but she would go back if she could just to get that feeling of going to the
corner and popping open a soda.

For now her days are spent writing, writing, and writing.

She would like all her fans to know one thing, “All my books are written for
one purpose- the enjoyment others find in them, and the expectations of my fans
that inspire me to give it my best.”

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RELEASE BLAST! FOR HER PROTECTION BY AMBER BARDAN (@Tasty book Tours @AmberABardan)

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You
shouldn’t mix business with pleasure.

FOR HER PROTECTION

An Alpha Romance

Amber Bardan

Released July 15th, 2016

You shouldn’t mix business with pleasure.


Yet pleasure seems to be the one and only thing on Charlize’s mind the moment
Connor steamrolls into her life. Desperate to save her family company, prove
she’s more than a pretty face and worthy of being CEO, pleasure is a
distraction she can’t afford.

She doesn’t want a bodyguard, especially not one whose caveman heroics kick her
libido into hyperdrive. Surrounded by enemies, she’s not sure if Connor is a
man she can trust.

Connor knows better than to get personal with clients. Yet there couldn’t be anything
more personal about his feelings for Charlize. He’ll win her trust, preferably
one orgasm at a time.

With Connor in her office, her home, driving her to sweet, merciless distraction,
there’s only so long Charlize can resist his sexy, dominant brand of protection.

WARNING: This is an Amber Bardan Alpha Romance, featuring one dirty-talking hero obsessed with his heroine, and a Happily Ever After. No cliffhangers.


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After spending years imagining fictional adventures, Amber Bardan finally
found a way to turn daydreaming into a productive habit. She now spends her
time in a coffee-fueled adrenaline haze, writing romance with a thriller edge.

She lives with her husband and children in semi-rural Australia, where if she peers
outside at the right moment she might just see a kangaroo bounce by.


Amber is an award winning writer, Amazon Bestselling Author, and member of Romance
Writers of Australia, Melbourne Romance Writers Guild, and Writers Victoria.

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FREE TODAY ONLY!  LET ME BY CECY ROBSON! (@CecyRobson @TastyBookTours @TastyBookPR)

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FREE FOR ONE DAY ONLY!!!

LET ME

The O’Brien Family Series Book Two

Cecy Robson

Released April 19th, 2016

Once he was broken beyond repair.
Now this MMA contender is fighting to be a better man—for her. RT Book Reviews
proclaims that the O’Brien Family series from award-winning author Cecy Robson
“has the hottest brothers ever!” And in Let Me, it is Finn’s turn to discover
how love can heal the deepest wounds.


A mixed martial arts star on the rise, Finn O’Brien dismantles his opponents with brutal precision. And yetbeneath his fierce persona, Finn is raw from a trauma he’s buried for years . .. until the day his deep-rooted rage erupts and lands him in court-mandated
therapy. Finn’s not one to bare his soul, but if talking it out means meeting
beautiful women like Sol Marieles, he’ll give it a shot.

Sol is working toward her master’s
degree in psychology, and already she feels like she’s in over her head. With
an important internship on the line and a scary family situation demanding her
attention, the last thing Sol needs is Finn around to distract her. The man is
ripped and seriously sexy yet it’s his troubled side that warns her to keep her
distance. But their attraction is intense, and he clearly has the heat to see
how far and fast their passion takes them.

Alone, Finn and Sol have been
fighting to find happiness in their lives. Together, there’s no stopping them
as they face their greatest challenges—not in the ring, but in their
hearts. 

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Cecy Robson is a new adult and contemporary author of the Shattered Past series, the O’Brien Family novels and upcoming Carolina Beach novels, as well as the award-winning
author of the Weird Girls urban fantasy romance series. A 2016 double nominated
RITA®finalist for Once Pure and Once Kissed, Cecy is a recovering Jersey girl living in the
South who enjoys carbs way too much, and exercise way too little. Gifted and
cursed with an overactive imagination, you can typically find her on her laptop
silencing the yappy characters in her head by telling their stories.

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RELEASE BLAST! LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS BY LAURIE KAHN (@LoveBTCFilm @TastyBookTours @iTunesMovies)

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Love Between the Covers

A Documentary Film

Written, Produced & Directed by: Laurie Kahn

Releasing July 12th, 2016

Distributed by: The Orchard


Love stories are universal. Love stories are powerful.  And so are the women who write them.

Love Between the Covers is the fascinating
story of the vast, funny, and savvy female community that has built a
powerhouse industry sharing love stories.
Romance fiction is sold in 34 languages on six continents, and the genre grosses more than a billion dollars a year — outselling mystery, sci-fi, and fantasy combined.  Yet the millions of voracious women (and sometimes men) who read, write, and love romance novels have remained oddly invisible. Until now.

For three years, we follow the lives of five very diverse published romance authors and one unpublished newbie as they build their businesses, find and lose loved ones, cope with a tsunami of change in publishing, and earn a living doing what
they love—while empowering others to do the same. Romance authors have built a fandom unlike all others, a global sisterhood where authors know their readers personally and help them become writers themselves. During the three years
we’ve been shooting Love Between the
Covers, we have witnessed the biggest power shift that has taken place in
the publishing industry over the last 200 years. And it’s the romance authors who are on the front lines, pioneering new ways to survive and build communities in this rapidly changing environment. 

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Love Between the Covers – Official Trailer from Laurie Kahn on Vimeo.

Director/Producer LAURIE KAHN’s films have won major
awards, been shown on PBS primetime, broadcast around the world, and used
widely in university classrooms and community groups. Her first film, A
Midwife’s Tale, was based on the 18th century diary of midwife Martha Ballard
and Laurel Ulrich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife’s Tale. It won film festival awards and a national Emmy for Outstanding Non-Fiction. Her film TUPPERWARE!
was broadcast in more than 20 countries, won the George Foster Peabody Award and was nominated for a national Best Nonfiction Director Emmy. Kahn previously
worked on Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, The American Experience, FRONTLINE’S Crisis in Central America, All Things Considered, and
Time Out. She’s a resident scholar at Brandeis’s Women’s Studies Research
Center.


For more information on the film, http://www.lovebetweenthecovers.com/ 


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RELEASE BLITZ! CARNAL WHISPERS MIND STALKER BY REILY GARRETT (@TastyBookTours @reily_garrett)

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To delve into another’s mind is to revel in the depths of truth

CARNAL WHISPERS: 

MIND STALKER

Carnal #3

Reily Garrett

Releasing July 11th, 2016

To delve into another’s mind is to revel in the depths of truth, cringe in the face of past and imagined horrors, and suffer their dreams, all while searching for balance and serenity.

Daniele is a mysterious, gentle, and loyal young woman harboring knowledge capable of
destroying millions. Thumbing her nose at fate, she hides in plain sight while concealing her extraordinary talent, enduring isolation despite her fantasies of a normal life.

 Marc, owner of the BDSM club, Ambrosia, is determined to protect the elusive beauty stalked by a psychopathic killer.
Hidden underneath her vulnerability, he senses a courage and determination
forged from horrific circumstances. While adapting unique scenes to free her from fear and low self-esteem, he strives to stay one step ahead of a branch of the government answering to no one.

Each must rely on the other to survive a world where betrayal and deception, desire and trust, weave a fabric that threatens their sanity.


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Reily’s employment as an ICU nurse, private investigator, and work in the military police has given her countless
experiences in a host of different environments to add a real world feel to her fiction.


Though her kids are her life, writing is Reily’s life after. The one enjoyed…after the kids are in bed or after they’re in school and the house is quiet. This is the time she kicks back with laptop and lapdog to give her imagination free rein.

In life, hobbies can come and go according to our physical abilities, but you can always enjoy a good book. Life isn’t perfect, but our imaginations can be. Relax, whether it’s in front of a fire or in your own personal dungeon. Take pleasure in a mental pause as you root for your favorite hero/heroine and bask in their accomplishments, then share your opinions of them over a coffee with your best friend (even if he’s four legged). Life is short. Cherish your time

 

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BOOK BLAST! CATCHING CASSIDY BY MELISSA FOSTER (@TastyBookTours @Melissa_Foster @TastyBookPR)

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a sexy, hot, and evocatively real New Adult Romance series

 

CATCHING CASSIDY
Harborside Nights #1
Melissa Foster
Released April 2015
World Literary Press
Wyatt Armstrong never imagined that
instead of celebrating his college graduation, he and his twin sister would be
dealing with the death of their parents. Then again, Wyatt had never been one
to think past tomorrow. He heads to their summer home in Harborside,
Massachusetts, with his best friend Cassidy Lowell in tow, to deal with his
parents’ death and to try to figure out his next step.
Six foot two, infuriatingly
handsome, and flirtatious, Wyatt Armstrong has always been there for Cassidy,
helping her pass her classes and fend off unwanted advances, while driving her
insane with his one-night stands—but that’s what best friends are for, isn’t
it? Having each other’s backs. There was never any doubt that she would
accompany him to his family’s summer home—but she never expected to begin
seeing Wyatt as more than a friend. Or has she been ignoring her feelings all
along?
It’s impossible to ignore the
sizzling heat between them as Wyatt and Cassidy get even closer, but Cassidy
knows Wyatt’s past, and she has a real job to begin in the fall. Wyatt may be a
sure thing for the summer, but Cassidy needs more. For the first time in his
life, Wyatt is forced to look toward the future if he doesn’t want to lose the
one woman who’s shared his past and owns his heart.
 
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DISCOVERING DELILAH
Harborside Nights #2
Melissa Foster
Released July 2015
World Literary Press
LGBT New Adult
DISCOVERING DELILAH is an New Adult Lesbian Romance (#LGBT) After the
death of her parents on the day of her college graduation, Delilah Armstrong
thought she could finally follow her heart and come out to her closest friends,
but the guilt of going against her parents’ beliefs haunts her. The feelings
she has for her best friend, Ashley, are stronger than anything she’s felt
before, but Delilah has never even kissed a girl, and fear stops her at every
turn. 

Ashley
Carver promised herself that she would never again date another girl who wasn’t
out, but that was before she met intoxicatingly sweet and sexy Delilah. 

When
another girl offers to teach Delilah the ropes, it changes Delilah’s whole
world and gives her the courage to go after the only girl she really wants. But
coming out isn’t as easy as Delilah imagined, and moving past her parents’
death and the feelings of guilt she is left with is even harder. The intense
passion between Ashley and Delilah is too strong to deny, but coming together
means risking everything. 

Discovering
Delilah is an edgy, evocative, romantic story of friendship, family, and the
courage to love. 

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And don’t miss TEMPTING TRISTAN…
Coming Oct 2016

 

Melissa
Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling
and award-winning author. She writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary
romance, new adult romance, and women’s fiction with emotionally compelling
characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Melissa’s
emotional journeys are lovingly erotic, perfect beach reads, and always family
oriented. 
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BLAST! LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS BY LAURIE KAHN (@LoveBTCFilm @iTunesMovies @TastyBookTours)

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Love Between the Covers
A Documentary Film
Written, Produced & Directed by: Laurie Kahn
Releasing July 12th, 2016
Distributed by: The Orchard
 

Love stories are universal. Love stories are powerful.  And so are the women who write them.

Love Between the Covers is the fascinating story of the vast, funny, and savvy female community that has built a powerhouse industry sharing love stories.
Romance fiction is sold in 34 languages on six continents, and the genre
grosses more than a billion dollars a year — outselling mystery, sci-fi, and
fantasy combined.  Yet the millions of
voracious women (and sometimes men) who read, write, and love romance novels
have remained oddly invisible. Until now.
For three years, we follow the lives of five very diverse published romance authors
and one unpublished newbie as they build their businesses, find and lose loved
ones, cope with a tsunami of change in publishing, and earn a living doing what
they love—while empowering others to do the same. Romance authors have built a
fandom unlike all others, a global sisterhood where authors know their readers
personally and help them become writers themselves. During the three years
we’ve been shooting Love Between the
Covers, we have witnessed the biggest power shift that has taken place in
the publishing industry over the last 200 years. And it’s the romance authors
who are on the front lines, pioneering new ways to survive and build
communities in this rapidly changing environment. 

 

Pre-Order Now


Watch the Official Trailer


Director/Producer LAURIE KAHN’s films have won major
awards, been shown on PBS primetime, broadcast around the world, and used
widely in university classrooms and community groups. Her first film, A
Midwife’s Tale, was based on the 18th century diary of midwife Martha Ballard
and Laurel Ulrich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife’s Tale. It won film
festival awards and a national Emmy for Outstanding Non-Fiction. Her film TUPPERWARE!
was broadcast in more than 20 countries, won the George Foster Peabody Award
and was nominated for a national Best Nonfiction Director Emmy. Kahn previously
worked on Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, The American
Experience, FRONTLINE’S Crisis in Central America, All Things Considered, and
Time Out. She’s a resident scholar at Brandeis’s Women’s Studies Research
Center.
 
For more information on the film, http://www.lovebetweenthecovers.com/ 
 

10 Surprising Facts about Romance Novels by Laurie Kahn

Four years ago, when I began making my documentary film Love Between the Covers, I stepped into a community I knew nothing about: the global network of women who write, read, and love romance novels. What I found surprised me. Here are ten things I learned:

 

  1. Romance fiction is a billion-dollar industry

Romance novel sales total more than a billion dollars a year. They sell as much as sci-fi, mystery, and fantasy combined.

 

  1. The romance readership is HUGE and global

More than 70 million people in the USA alone read at least one romance novel per year, and most of them read many more. The work of popular American romance writer Nora Roberts is translated into 33 languages and distributed on 6 continents.

 

  1. There is a surprisingly wide range of romance novels 

Like romance blogger Sarah Wendell says, “Whatever your cup of tea is, someone’s pouring it.”

Romance novels are often equated with “bodice-rippers,” but the steamy historicals with Fabio on the cover were published back in the 1970s and 1980s. Since that time, the spectrum of romance novels has exploded. On one end of that spectrum, there are chaste evangelical romances. On the other end, there are BDSM romances (yes, likethat one).

 

In between, you’ll find paranormal romance with vampires and shapeshifters, time-travel romance, historical romance, contemporary romance, and romantic suspense. There are growing romance subgenres for LGBT love stories, a large community of writers who specialize in African-American romance, and there’s even a popular Amish romance subgenre.

  1. Everybody’swriting romance

Women of every description (and a small number of men) are the engine of this industry.

Contrary to expectations, romance authors come from every economic class, every racial group, every sexual preference, and every level of education.

When I asked the pioneering African-American romance author Beverly Jenkinsabout her peers, she told me, “Women from all walks of life do this. We’re not sitting in the proverbial trailer park in ratty nightgowns, eating jelly beans and watching soap operas. There are some pretty powerful women doing this! Geneticists, astrophysicists, lawyers, doctors…” The list goes on.

Len Barot (pen name Radclyffe), one of the main characters in Love Between the Covers, began writing lesbian romances during her surgical residency. Mary Bly (pen name Eloisa James), another main character in the film, is a Shakespeare scholar by day and an author of historical romances by night.

 

I interviewed PhDs, lawyers, and insurance executives. I also interviewed romance authors who worked in factories. There’s an open door for anyone who wants to give it a try. Nora Roberts, the rock star of the romance industry, never went to college.

 

  1. Women in the romance community are more likely than the general population to be currently married or living with a partner.

We’ve all seen depictions of the lonely, lovesick romance writer, who pens titillating novels while eating bonbons and sobbing over her keyboard.

 

Don’t believe the stereotype. While romance does offer women a place to escape daily life and live out their fantasies, this community of readers and writers are statistically more likely than most to be in happy relationships.

  1. Romance authors become personal friends with their readers, and readers find one another.

In the romance community friendships that begin online – based on a shared love of books– often become real and enduring friendships.

 

Beverly Jenkins and her readers are in constant contact at Beverly’s Facebook page, talking about books, football, music, and the ups and downs of their everyday lives. Every other year, Beverly takes a trip with her readers to places where her novels are set.

Radclyffe invites beginning authors to her farm in upstate New York, where she leads workshops on romance writing, and several of Eloisa James’s loyal readers told us they found their closest friends, with whom they communicate every day, through Eloisa’s blog.

  1. Romance writers get tremendous support from one another

    Why are these women so happy to pull a less experienced writer up the ranks? I asked many authors this question, and almost all of them told me stories of their early romance mentors–and their desire to pay it forward.

 

At a Romance Writers of America (RWA) national conference, unpublished writers are always welcome (something that does not happen at other writer conferences), and there are dozens of workshops taught by established writers about everything from plot structure and writing knife-fights, to social networking and negotiating contracts. You will see bestselling novelists sitting down for coffee with unpublished newbies, critiquing their work and giving them business advice.

 

  1. Romance authors are on the cutting edge, pioneering new technologies

    Romance writers and readers were the first to enthusiastically adopt e-books, a service which works well for anyone who buys hundreds of books, and romance writers have always been mavericks of social media, using it effectively to build fan communities.

 

Romance has been at the forefront of the biggest change to take place in publishing in the last 200 years: self publishing. Together, romance authors have figured out how to succeed in self-publishing. Instead of being secretive, these one-person indie publishing houses share their knowhow and numbers (not a common practice in publishing).

  1. You can take courses about romance fiction at Princeton, Harvard, DePaul and dozens of other universities

    Literature scholars, cultural historians, and popular culture studies professors founded the International Association for the Study of Popular Romancefive years ago. They hold annual conferences, and they’ve also started the peer-reviewed onlineJournal for Popular Culture Studies. It’s a growing interdisciplinary field.

 

  1. Romance writing isn’t an easy gig

    You might think writing romance novels is more of a breezy pastime than a professional venture, but the deadlines that romance novelists face are incredibly rigorous. Susan Donovandescribed the feeling of being on-deadline saying, “There’s always a flame behind your ass.” Some women publish three or four books a year. On top of this, most novelists handle their own promotion, and self-published authors also handle their novels’ distribution. When you’re a romance novelist, you are a one-woman business.

 

I had a blast exploring the romance community over the last four years. In creatingLove Between the Covers, I discovered one of the few places where women are always center stage, where female characters always win, where justice prevails in every book, and where the broad spectrum of desires of women from all backgrounds are not feared, but explored unapologetically.

 

*Originally featured in The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/laurie-kahn/romance-novels_b_7109458.html

RELEASE BLAST! THE FAMILY MAN BY KELLY EADON (@TastyBookTours @keauthor)

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THE FAMILY MAN 
Kelly Eadon
Releasing July 5th, 2016
Forever
TEMPTATION NEVER TASTED SO SWEET…
 
When life hands lemons to Beth Beverley, she makes mouthwatering lemon squares. Mostly because they’re coveted by the sexy single dad who owns Belmont’s most popular coffee shop. But that’s where her crush on Griffin has to end. Her sweet treats are selling like crazy cakes in his shop, and she doesn’t mix business with pleasure. Too bad his
sinful smile has her flirting with the idea of forever.
Griffin Hall definitely needs to keep his eyes–and his hands–off Beth. Since he’s traded in late-night gigs and partying for bedtime stories with his little girl in his arms, he doesn’t have time for anything else. So why does Beth’s big heart and easy way with his
daughter make him finally feel alive again? But there’s a little secret Beth
doesn’t know, something he can’t bear to tell her . . .
 
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Kelly Eadon is a romance writer living in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and a house full of rescue animals, aka “the kraken”. She swears like a sailor and says whatever
pops into her head. In order to counteract her big mouth, she wears high heels
whenever possible. In her spare time she spins, kick boxes and attempts to
renovate her farmhouse. She hates sanding drywall, loves to cook, drinks lots
of wine, gets scary competitive at trivia, and enjoys time spent exploring with
her rescued beagle mixes.
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