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FEATURED ARTICLE: A Master of Sensual Muse: Amanda McIntyre
June 2, 2011 | 
Author Multi-award winning, bestselling author Amanda McIntyre aka Pamela Johnson writes page after page of sizzling romance in a number of genres. From contemporary to historical to paranormal, she pens emotionally rich, character driven stories that tug on your heart as well heightens your senses. She has worn many career hats from mom to newspaper columnist and has founded and co-edited seventy-eight anthologies for charity to benefit education and awareness of domestic violence in memory of author Nancy Richards-Akers.
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FEATURED ARTICLE: Just What the Chef Ordered – Chef Shawn Bucher and the First-Timer’s Cookbook
A good foundation is the key to great things and the secret to success. The First-Timer’s Cook Book by Shawn Bucher delivers just that to anyone and everyone who wants to learn not only what to cook but HOW to cook. Culinary masters create exciting, irresistible meals because they understand the basics cooking. Now is your chance to learn this for yourself. Shawn provides simple techniques and easy step-by-step instructions that will make you a proficient and maybe even spectacular cook. I can’t wait to get my hands on this book for me as well as for my three kids ages 24, 22, and 18—their future spouses will adore me for it.
FEATURED ARTICLE: Nancy Miles In Good Taste
Dish up some fabulous food and create your own family cookbook heirloom. Nancy Miles, the ingenious author of In Good Taste and the Now You’re Cook’n cookbooks, brings you the opportunity to neatly keep forever those treasured recipes that never seem to get organized. When you purchase In Good Taste, you receive a special password that gives you entrance to Nancy’s unique world. You’ll be able to download templates to make your own treasured cookbook.
Nancy takes the chore of cooking and turns it into a labor of love for future generations to enjoy. In Good Taste is made for today’s busy cooks. It offers a full flavored smorgasbord of simple and quick original recipes sure to delight every cook, new or experiences as well as please the taste buds everyone around.
2010 Highlight: Barry Eisler On Taking Books to Film
Having my first book, Rain Fall, made into a movie last year by Sony Pictures Japan was a great experience. Fascinating and fun. I visited the set, which was very cool; I met Gary Oldman and Akira Emoto, two actors I like a lot; and I attended the premiere, which was a blast. If you want to know more, here’s my writeup of the premiere in Tokyo; photos of set and the premiere; and a short video of the premiere (if you can stand my mangled Japanese).
FEATURED ARTICLE: Brad Parks- Nobody Does it Better
EYES OF THE INNOCENT hit the shelves recently and reviewers are raving about book two in the Carter Ross Mystery Series. The envious praise for Brad Parks’ skill at writing both humor and suspense inspired me to do a little investigative reporting myself.
You see, the hero of FACES OF THE GONE and EYES OF THE INNOCENT is Carter Ross, an investigative reporter with a highbrow education and a nose for trouble. Carter is intriguingly described as a dashing six-foot-one man with brown hair and blue eyes, who is funny and brave. So, you can understand why I had to snoop around for the guy, right? I mean what woman can resist such a combination.
I’m still looking for the man, but I did learn that Carter Ross was “born and raised in well-to-do Millburn. He attended some of New Jersey’s finest prep schools then spent four years at Amherst College. Still in his early 30′s, he has landed a plum gig: Investigative reporter at The Newark Eagle-Examiner, a job that plunges this white-shoe WASP into some of “the seamiest places the city has to offer.”
FEATURED ARTICLE: Jaime Rush-Adrenaline Rush
If you’re looking for a fast pace, hot action, and steamy romance then Offspring is a series you’ll want to plunge headfirst into. Jaime Rush, an author featured in the New York Times bestselling anthology Bitten By Cupid, takes readers deep into a world in where no one is who they seem to be and trust will get you killed.
It is a documented fact that until the mid nineteen-nineties, the US government conducted top secret experiments into psychic phenomena and the use of paranormal gifts in international espionage. Jaime, being an author who really enjoys scary, couldn’t stop herself from wondering what if…
Review: Collateral Damage by J.L. Saint
Let me just say that when I was honored with the invitation to join the stable of extraordinary reviewers of NovelsAlive.tv, it was understood that I would not be reviewing "romance novels." I’m more of a non-fiction and/or military thriller kinda gal. I’m definitely "rough around the edges" and like my reading material to be the same. I have no patience for the "heaving, pearly scoops of pebbling flesh" prose that most romance writers employ. Suffice it to say, when I was asked to read J.L. Saint’s new ebook original, Collateral Damage, by Samhain Publishing, Ltd., I raised an eyebrow at the description "romantic suspense."
Collateral Damage is the first book in Ms. Saint’s "Silent Warrior Series" which intends to feature a military man or woman as the hero or heroine of the story. The first few books in the series involve members of a Delta Team whose mission was to extract high-profile hostages from a radical group in Lebanon. The mission goes bad, leaving a swath of physical and emotional destruction amid the survivors.
FEATURED ARTICLE: Brad Parks – First Ever
If you don’t know who Brad Parks is then NovelsAlive.tv suggests you take a moment here to find out, for this new author on the block is blazing a bright trail. Brad, with his debut book Faces of the Gone, accomplished something that no other author has ever done before.
What you ask?
Hold that question.
Before I tell you exactly what he did and give you the scoop on Faces of the Gone, “The most hilariously funny and deadly serious mystery debut since Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money,” according to the Library Journal, I want to give you the nitty-gritty on Brad the man.
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FEATURED ARTICLE: Barbara Vey-A Treasure That Shines
If you go to Publisher’s Weekly and check out the blogs on the home page, you will find one called, Beyond Her Book. This daily column is a popular place to see what’s hot in today’s fiction and get the latest scoop on the best events the publishing world and media markets have to offer. It is the place to hold a cyber party and to share the charities close to your heart with the writing community. But all of this engaging information and happening fun aren’t what makes Beyond Her Book great. It is the woman behind it all that makes it so special.
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FEATURED ARTICLE: J.L. Saint: A New Frontier
Collateral Damage by J.L. Saint isn’t your mother’s romance nor your father’s thriller, but an edge of your seat ride between them both, and a new frontier for this author who also writes as USA Today Bestselling author Jennifer St. Giles. Jennifer is known for her emotional, sensual, and visual writing as well as her ability to imbue and maintain a gripping element of tension into her stories, whether she is writing a historical murder mystery, a paranormal suspense, or a romantic thriller. She is also a woman who cares about others in quiet ways both in her profession as a nurse and in her position as Vice-President of GALS Charitable Foundation a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation.
This very talented author has also begun writing screenplays and has a television pilot ready to pitch to T.V. executives! So be prepared to see even more of Jennifer’s work by sitting comfortably at home watching T.V. or enjoying a night out at the movies.
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FEATURED ARTICLE: Rebecca York: An Exceptional Lady
What do Africa, China, India, and Peru all have in common? New York Times Bestselling Author Rebecca York and adventure! These are just some of the amazing places Rebecca has visited for fun and for book research over the past few years. From the wilds of a safari to the dangers of the Amazon, she ventures into the exotic and experiences first hand many things that most people only dream of doing. And while I am on the subject might I just add Hawaii, Ireland, Alaska, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, London, New Orleans, and Guatemala. She has an exceptional thirst to learn and know about other cultures and other places, but there is so much more to this lady.
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FEATURED ARTICLE: A Modern Day Renaissance Woman – Sheila Clover-English
Where can one possibly begin the tale of Sheila English, the CEO of Circle of Seven Productions which is now part of Reader’s Entertainment Group? Do I start with her as a child growing up in California with dreams of being an author one day. Or tell about a woman whose love of story and writing led her to become an award winning script writer? There is so much to say that almost anything written would fail to grasp the essence of this dynamic woman or the force she has become in book marketing. Yet, I will still attempt to share with you who Sheila is and for what she stands.
She is a woman of brilliant vision. Years ago, Sheila realized that marketing the written word with visual images and well chosen sound bites would revolutionize the way books were sold. She was told her idea had no merit. She was told she would fail, but she quietly pursed her vision and made it happen. Yet, this part of the story doesn’t stop here. Sheila continually expands her multi-media approach to marketing story via new and innovative technology.
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