An Interview with NY Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries
Part 1 of a 4 part series video interview
Sabrina Jeffries Talks Regency
When she was young, Sabrina Jeffries grew up a missionary’s daughter where she traveled at an early age to live in Thailand. Several factors came into play during that time that would mold the future New York Time bestselling author’s future. By the time she was eleven years old she knew she would be a published romance writer.
Sabrina talks with us about selling her first historical novel and about how being a missionary’s daughter helped her with her writing career.
Join us in the first of this four part video interview series as we celebrate an amazing author and her new release To Wed A Wild Lord in bookstores Nov. 22nd, 2011.
What To Read To Put You In The Mood For The Holiday!
Tis always the season for reading!
Books about Thanksgiving are often about children, family and traditions. This Thanksgiving holiday you can gear up early in the week, or spend Black Friday home, snuggled in bed with a good book. Don’t care for sports? How about a fun read with the kids or perhaps a Thanksgiving book for you?
Kids Books
There are a multitude of children’s books about Thanksgiving. You can go to BN.com and search for “Thanksgiving children’s books” and you will find a wide variety of books for all ages. There are some new ones out there for those of you who already have bought Thanksgiving books in the past. Here are a few new books to consider:
There are also books for grown ups! Did you know that Janet Evanovich wrote a Thanksgiving book in 2006?
You can find books about Thanksgiving holiday sampler menus like The Parchment Paper Cookbook: A Holiday Sampler Menu from the Parchment Paper Cookbook.
You can go to online reader communities to find out what Thanksgiving reading people are talking about. GoodReads, a popular online destination for readers, has a thread from a few years back that is still relevant today.
The holiday week is hectic. While everyone is running around preparing for the feast, or recovering from it, curl up with a good book. Enjoy your holiday your way. Escape. Read together. Above all, have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Walker Books, a publisher in the U.K. has just unveiled a new book cover that just might “re-invent” they way we view a book.
The cover, appearing on the author Edward Hogan’s newest young adult book, Daylight Saving is fluid, and interactive. Created by the designers at Undercover, it is the first cover of it’s kind. When you run the mouse over the already beautiful cover, you find ripples of movement and a ticking clock counting down to the end of Daylight Savings time.
The book is a scary addition Hogan’s growing list of titles. Daylight Savings brings forth an entirely new perspective an a seemingly insignificant event. “For one of the main characters in Edward Hogan’s debut young adult novel, Daylight Saving, this time of year brings nothing but fear… it’s a thriller ghost story by a new voice in YA fiction that will have you utterly gripped. We can also tell you that this very night, when the clocks go back, is one that fills the characters with dread.”
There are many ways to donate your time and money this holiday season. We think one of the best is donating books, particularly to our troops. There are a number of organizations that you can donate books to the troops through, all of them are great, all of them send awesome books to the troops and all of them need your donations.
New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries delights readers with the fourth novel in her Hellions of Halstead Hall series, featuring the dark and dangerous Lord Gabriel Sharpe.Learn about the book here http://bit.ly/ToWedAWildLord Learn about the author here http://bit.ly/SabrinaJeffries Historical Romance
Fall In Love With These True Heroes AND Support Better Medical Care For Veterans
Eighteen top authors celebrate the men of the Navy SEALs and the women who love them. Don’t miss these stories of courage, loyalty, romance
and honor.
Paperback and Ebook
Available starting Veterans Day, Nov. 11, everywhere books are sold.
All proceeds pledged to the Veterans Research Corporation, a nonprofit foundation supporting veterans’ medical research.
http://www.veteransresearchcorp.org
http://sealofmydreams.com
Authors include: Cindy Gerard, Alison Kent, Stephanie Tyler, Stephanie Bond, Christie Ridgway, Tara Janzen, Barbara Samuel, Jami Alden, Elle Kennedy, Leslie Kelly, and Loreth Anne White, with a Foreword by Robyn Carr. Among them they have won numerous RWA RITA awards, have published nearly 600 novels, and have sold 15 million copies worldwide.
Literacy organization First Book and book publisher Random House Children’s Books partnered this week to bring books to underprivileged children. A new book was donated by Random House for each person that subscribed to their social media sites via Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr.
Brian Minter of First Book says, “we’ve added over 26,000 new followers,” with our efforts this week.
While this program only lasted for a week, you can still make a difference. First Books has already donated nearly 85 million books with the help of sponsors and donors. They are seeking corporate sponsors, small business sponsors and individuals who’d like to help.
Check out their website http://www.firstbook.org/for all the ways, including volunteering you can give the gift of reading to a kid.
More than a dozen top romance authors, including Barbara Samuel, Stephanie Bond, Cindy Gerard, Christie Ridgway and Alison Kent, contribute short stories to this anthology celebrating the heroic Navy SEALS. All proceeds go to veterans medical research. Learn more about this book and its authors here, http://bit.ly/SEALofMyDreams Romance
PI Casey Holden screens his clients the way he screens his women. So when Felicity Farren struts into his office asking him to solve the murder of her husband Artis, she intrigues him. His challenge is to learn what really happened to Artis, with only his wits at his disposal. Learn more about this book here, http://bit.ly/q86mBy and its author here, http://robertdowns.net/ Mystery
With a drastic reduction in funds for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in Maine, author Stephen King is stepping up to help. Launching a donation campaign via his radio stations, King says he will match donations up to $70,000.
In a statement from King: “We’ll match up to $70,000 of the amount raised. . .This economy is terrible and Tabitha and I both worry so much about Bangor because it truly is a working-class town and we are always looking for ways to help, and right now this is a great need.”
Anyone wishing to make a donation can call (207)990-2800 a line to King’s radio stations or they can snail-mail a donation to: Help Keep Me Warm ZONE Radio, 861 Broadway, Bangor 04401.
