New Cover for GAINING INTEREST
Ta da! Here’s the new cover for GAINING INTEREST. I’ve finished reading the proofs so now the book is in production. I hope to have the eBook version available by the end of October (the first week of November the latest). And yes Cassie and Drake from TABLE FOR TWO make an appearance in this one. Here’s the book’s description: Aspiring lingerie designer Adriana Travers has a weakness for bad boys—not practical, plodding men like her financial advisor Eric Henson. She’s only interested in him handling her financial affairs. Affairs of the heart, however, are completely off limits. Eric Henson agrees. Women like Adriana are not in his plan. After…
5 Tips to a Model Life
Do you want to know how to feel fabulous every day? How to turn heads in an instant? How to stand out without doing anything? I can show you how. If you’ve read my latest release ALL I WANT IS YOU or TAMING MARIELLA you know that the heroines (Monica and Mariella respectively) were models. I felt comfortable writing these characters because I used some of my background to shape them. I grew up around models and got to see them as ordinary people. One of my aunts worked in a modeling agency, another family friend has a niece who’s now an international model. I’ve met print models and hand…
3 Quick Questions for Ann Christopher
Award-winning author Ann Christopher took time out of her busy schedule (kids, cats, husband and a prolific writing career) to talk to me about her new release DEADLY DESIRES the book following her 2010 release DEADLY PURSUIT. About the Book DEADLY DESIRES Kensington Dafina ISBN-13: 9780758235459 ISBN-10: 0758235453 How can you plan a future… After a desperate struggle to sever ties with her husband, Kira Gregory is suddenly a free woman. She can start a new life without guns, drugs, dirty money, or fear. But Kira’s new found independence seems too good to be true. And it is… When you can’t outrun your past? DEA Special Agent Dexter Brady spent months trying…
Interview with Author! Author! bookstore founder Laura Hayden
Are you an author who wants to find a way to buy your books at a deep discount? Or a reader who wants to know who worked with Nicole “Coco” Marrow (aka Mrs. Ice T) on the novel Angel? Then you’ll enjoy my interview with Laura Hayden. She discusses how she came up with the Author! Author! bookstore, her varied writing career and the future of bookstores. You can read the interview here. You can find out more about her here.
Artists are Weird, but Writers are Crazy: Ready–Fire–Aim!
Please note that this series is written in fun. If you don’t like hints of sarcasm and hyperbole don’t read this. If you find the title offensive, don’t read this. However, if you understand that this is a great time to be a writer of fiction and feel like a lone happy person in a tsunami of fear, read on. Are you sitting on the fence about an idea you want to pursue? Then this post is for you. I recently had a conversation with a fellow writer that went something like this: “Hey Dara, I’ve got a great idea for a new book.” (Precedes to tell me the idea)…