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“Old School” romance writer, LaConnie Taylor-Jones is back, and her first virtual book tour with The GRITS COM Literary Service will be coming to a computer screen near you,
August 4-29, 2008!!
Everyone is invited to join “Old School” romance writer, LaConnie Taylor-Jones, on her “A Love For All Times” Virtual Book Tour celebrating her second novel, When a Man Loves a Woman!
LaConnie Taylor-Jones, is an exciting new voice to the romance industry! She’s a health educator consultant and holds advanced degrees in community public health and business administration. She has been an avid reader of romance for over twenty-five years. But thoughts of a romance writing career did not come until the spring of 2003 while complaining to her husband about a romance novel she was reading. It was pass midnight and he was tired of her complaints about the book so he offered her this challenge:
“Honey if you can write a better book; do it! But baby, turn out the lights.”
LaConnie took him up on his challenge and she’s never looked back. She has been an active member of the San Francisco Area Chapter of RWA since 2003 and received the Romance Slam Jam 2008 Emma Award for her debut multicultural contemporary romance, When I’m With You, published by Genesis Press, November 2007.
In When a Man Loves a Woman, handsome Dr. Alcee Jules (AJ) Baptiste is determined to find answers to two difficult questions he’s dealing with: What do you do when you are in love with a woman who won’t give you the time of day? How do you convince her that she really is meant to spend the rest of her life with you when she avoids you at all costs? A. J. knows that he wants to spend the rest of his life with Victoria (Vic) Bennett. But Vic wants nothing to do with love, and even less to do with him. So what is A. J. to do? He will do what a man has to do – resort to a bit of scheming to win her over! And when he does, Victoria Bennett will confess with her mind, body, and soul that when a man loves a woman, it really is . . . a love for all times!
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On Friday, April 25, 2008 at 8 PM PST, UCLA's Royce Hall was all the buzz as the 28th Annual L. A. Times Book Awards were presented. Congratulations to all the winners! One winner in particular we want to call special attention to is Dinaw Mengestu for winning the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for 'The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears'
Other awards this book has received:
Winner of the Guardian First Book Prize
New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the National Book Foundation's “5 Under 35” Award
Recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship
Winner of the Prix du Premier Roman
Named the Seattle Reads Selection of 2008
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu
Riverhead, March 2007
$22.95 US; ISBN: 1594489408 (Hardcover)
$14.00 US; ISBN: 1594482854 (Softcover)
About the Book
Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to the point of certain death, selling off his parents' jewelry to pay for passage to the United States. Now he finds himself running a grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C. His only companions are two fellow African immigrants who share his feelings of frustration with and bitter nostalgia for their home continent. He realizes that his life has turned out completely different and far more isolated from the one he had imagined for himself years ago.
Soon Sepha's neighborhood begins to change. Hope comes in the form of new neighbors-Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter-who become his friends and remind him of what having a family is like for the first time in years. But when the neighborhood's newfound calm is disturbed by a series of racial incidents, Sepha may lose everything all over again.
Told in a haunting and powerful first-person narration that casts the streets of Washington, D.C., and Addis Ababa through Sepha's eyes, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears is a deeply affecting and unforgettable debut novel about what it means to lose a family and a country-and what it takes to create a new home.
About Author
Dinaw Mengestu is the author of 'The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears,' a Los Angeles Times bestseller and Seattle Reads pick of 2008, as well as the forthcoming novel 'How To Read the Air.' He was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. In 1980, he immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister, joining his father, who had fled Ethiopia during the Red Terror. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Columbia University's MFA program in fiction and the recipient of a 2006 fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation in 2007. He has written for Rolling Stone and Harper's, among other publications. He lives in New York City.
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'Designed for Passion' by Francine Craft Published
Author Francine Craft delivers a new story which allows her characters to be more amorous and delve a little deeper into lustful fulfillment. Designed for Passion, (Kimani Press, March 2008, 0373860579, $5.99), Ms. Craft's twenty-first novel, is more than an entertaining read. It shares the sometimes emotional anguish of women who are separated by size and humility.
Melodye Carter suffered emotional anguish at the hands of her mom and her sister; she was too heavy and not pretty enough, yet her sister was always competing. Somehow Melodye survived growing up, she now is captivated by her business, a boutique for plus size women.
Having endured two years after the death of her husband, she is almost ready to live again. But new developments, in her husband's unsolved murder, create problems for Melodye. Her husband's associates thinks she is hiding money he owed them. Detective Jim Ryman, who has a short history with Melodye, is assigned to the case, and her sister, who takes no male prisoners, is back taunting Melodye! Her sister wants Jim, Jim wants Melodye, and Melodye, tired of competing with her sister, wants them both gone. But startling discoveries surrounding her husband's `life and death' just may shock Melodye into finally leveling the playing field.
Designed For Passion is an ardent story about plus-size women, jealous siblings, introspection, and personal redemption. Ms. Crafts delves into the psyche of women who see themselves through someone else's eyes. Hopefully readers will be rewarded with positive actions about women who feel when this ends, plus size women might want to take a bow!
About the book:
Designed for Passion by Francine Craft
Kimani Press, March 2008
$5.99 US, ISBN: 978-0373860579
About the Author
Francine Craft is the pen name of Washington, D.C. based writer who has enjoyed writing for many years. A native Mississippian, Francine has lived in New Orleans and found it to be one of the most fascinating places imaginable. A veteran of many interesting careers, Francine has been a research assistant for a large psychiatric organization, an elementary school teacher, a business school instructor, and a federal government legal secretary. Since 1995, she has published 22 titles – 18 novels and 4 anthologies, many of which have made the top 100 list on Amazon.
Visit Francine Craft's official website, www.francinecraft.com, and MySpace profile, www.myspace.com/francinecraft, for more information about her writing and this new novel! Designed For Passion is available nationwide where books are sold and online at Eharlequin.com, Amazon.com, and Barnes&Noble.com
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