SPANISH MAGNATE, RED-HOT REVENGE

Author: Lynn Raye Harris
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
ISBN-13: 978-0-373-12848-8
Genre: Contemporary RomanceHarlequin Presents is known for it’s uber-Alpha heroes and assertive heroines. This debut offering from Lynn Raye Harris, winner of the Harlequin Presents Instant Seduction First Chapter and Synopsis competition, has that combination in spades.
If you love rich Alpha heroes, you’ll love Lynn’s red-hot and dangerous, yet wounded hero, Alejandro. Rebecca remains sassy and strong in the face of adversity and proves an excellent partner for such a strong Spanish man. The twists and turns of the plot and their emotional upheavals will keep you turning pages, but the [...]

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Author: Chris Crutcher http://www.chriscrutcher.com/Publisher: Harper Teen
Genre: Young Adult
ISBN-10: 0060850914
ISBN-13: 978-0060850913
Have you ever thought about what you would do if you knew you were going to die?
During a Cross Country physical, high school senior Ben Wolf finds out he has a rare blood disease and has less than a year to live. Crazy thing is Ben’s okay with that. In the back of his mind he never imagined living past the age of eighteen. But Ben isn’t going to live out the last days of his life at the mercy of the doctors. Instead, he opts out of any medical treatment, [...]

Lynn Raye Harris interview conducted by Carol Burnside

CB: Lynn, congratulations on your first release coming out this month and thanks for being our guest today. We at PFHT appreciate you taking the time to speak with us.
LRH: Hi, Carol! It’s great to be here. Thanks so much for asking me to be your guest.For those folks who aren’t familiar with Harlequin Presents, could you explain what your readers can expect in a Lynn Raye Harris book?
LRH: Passion, emotion, intensity. That’s the short and sweet answer. Harlequin Presents are intense, emotional reads with varying levels of heat. Mine have been described [...]

Soap Operas: The Mother of all conflicts (and father of everyone on the show.)
~by CiCi Barnes
Watched any good soap operas lately? Or should I leave out the ‘good’ in that question?
Now that I work from home . . . Work? Who said writing was work? Just throw words on the screen, send it to a publisher and wah-la, you’re an author. But I digress. Now that I work from home, I get to take an hour and a half for lunch, unlike when I taught school and had maybe twenty minutes.
I make the chicken salad, pull out the carrots and [...]

Apologies to Carl Jung for stealing his title. I am in a spell of dryness and trying to discover how to come out of the desert. This piece will perambulate, but I promise to eventually go ahead and define the boundaries of my inspection.
I’ve had words my whole life. As a baby I used to sit in the back of the car and recite every word I knew. I put myself to sleep with words. I loved how they rolled off my tongue and made beautiful patterns against the roof of my mouth. I loved how saying them into [...]

I have come to believe, deep within my central channels, that the above is not a question of talent … but rather a decision backed by stubborn perseverance.
So I’m just back from a writing conference during which I survived some potentially demoralizing opinions about my book idea. The truth is I’m thankful for the experience because the reality of the “worst that can happen” is actually far less terrifying than fear of it. Fear only comes with the unknown. I now KNOW the worst and guess what? I’m still breathing. What’s more, I’m [...]

By: Debbie Kaufman
Recently some people I know became members of the Nielsen Television Ratings families. What this means is that what they watch actually has a direct influence on television ratings. The Nielsen folks came out to their house and hooked up a special box called a “People Meter.” According to the Nielsen website, here’s how it works:
“Our national sample, composed of a cross-section of nearly 10,000 representative homes throughout the United States, is measured by People Meters, a technology that has been in place since 1987. These meters give us [...]