June 16, 2009
Contest news for Linda Conrad
Linda Conrad’s Safe With a Stranger has been named a Holt Medallion Award of Merit Top Five winner in Romantic Suspense!
April 26, 2009
Career Achievement Award
Kylie Brant has received a Career Achievement Award in Series Romantic Adventure from Romantic Times!
April 19, 2009
SRS finals in contests
To Protect a Princess by Gail Barrett has finaled in both the National Readers’ Choice Award contest and the HOLT Medallion.
March 27, 2009
SRS Authors win honors!
Recent news from the contest front…
UNDER FIRE by Beth Cornelison
Beth Cornelison has finaled in the Colorado Award of Excellence and the New ENgland Bean Pot Readers Choice with her single title romantic suspense UNDER FIRE. Also, Cornelison’s DANGER AT HER DOOR (SRS August 2007) won the Most Emotional category of the Anne Bonney Contest.
Rita Alert! 
Congrats to our SRS Rita Finalists! Newcomer Jennifer Morey finaled in Best First Book AND Best Series Romantic Suspense with THe Secret Soldier, and SRS authors Kathleen Creighton (Danger Signals) and Diana Duncan (Lethal Attraction) finaled in Series RS as well! Well done ladies!!
March 24, 2009
Just in!
Romantic Times Book Reviews has given His 7-Day Fiancée by Gail Barrett (the second book in the exciting new Love in 60 Seconds continuity series) a 4-Star review and called it a “compelling, passionate love story.” For more details about the series, click on the logo at the right.
March 6, 2009
The SafeKeepers series ends with a Bang!
IN SAFE HANDS, out in April, ends Linda Conrad’s Safekeeper trilogy with a bang! Awarded a 4 ½ star Top Pick from Romantic Times Bookreviews, IN SAFE HANDS finishes up the trilogy’s tale of the Mexican black witch’s curse on the Ryan family. Here’s what the RT reviewer had to say:
“Collin Fairfax is searching for answers about how his brother, a British secret agent, died. Maggie Ryan has been looking for any relative of baby Emma, for whom she’s been caring since her parents were accidently killed. With the help of the Ryan magical abilities, she locates Emma’s Uncle Colin. The attraction is immediate, but they barely get through the first hellos before it’s obvious someone is out to kill Colin. … (Linda) Conrad casts her own magical spell with a terrific mix of good versus evil and plenty of passion and sensuality. Readers will be bewitched!” Sandra Garcia-Myers
February 24, 2009
New series announced!
Silhouette Romantic Suspense is launching an exciting new continuity series, LOVE IN 60 SECONDS in April. Click on the logo at the right for details. The first book in the series, The Heiress’s 2-Week Affair has already received rave reviews!
February 14, 2009
PRIMAL OBSESSION is “a class apart!”
Susan Vaughan’s first single title romantic suspense novel, PRIMAL OBSESSION, is now available on Amazon.com for pre-orders and has received glowing reviews.
The Romance Studio: “Susan Vaughan writes an intensely romantic thriller… This is an excellent tale of people at their best and worst learning to work together through adversity.”
WRDF Review: “Primal Obsession is a first-class thriller with the author successfully throwing suspicion on all characters. The twists in the plot were both unpredictable and believable and will keep the reader riveted from the very first page…a class apart. A definite MUST READ!”
January 12, 2009
THE TAKEN gets top reviews!
Books one and two of Kathleen Creighton’s new series, THE TAKEN, both earned 4.5 star reviews from ROMANTIC TIMES! Here’s what RT’s reviewer had to say about “DANGER SIGNALS,” an April release:
With a serial killer on the loose and very few clues, police bring in psychic Tierney Doyle to help, which doesn’t make detective Wade Callahan very happy. But Tierney surprises him. She offers strong clues, and he finds himself attracted to a woman for the first time in a long time. Tierney feels it too but is scared because her abilities usually become a hindrance. Soon she begins to feel someone is following Wade. Is it something sinister, or a link to his past? With Danger Signals (4.5), Kathleen Creighton sets in motion her Taken series, which will eventually reunite a long-separated family. This terrific story is one of intense emotion and passion, with wonderfully drawn characters.
—Sandra Garcia-Myers
And for “DAREDEVIL’S RUN,” in AUGUST 2008:
Alex Penny and Matt Callahan were lovers and partners in an adventure tour business. But their relationship abruptly ended when Matt was paralyzed in a rock-climbing accident. Five years later, Cory Pearson, a brother he’s never known, finds him. Cory’s done something Matt hasn’t since the accident — talk to Alex. Cory realizes that the two still have unresolved feelings for each other, so he sets up a rafting trip. Alex has mixed feelings about seeing Matt again. Will they finally be able to open up to each other? Daredevil’s Run (4.5) is a touching, emotional story about a couple torn apart by overwhelm- ing circumstances. Kathleen Creighton does a beautiful job reminding us that real love is worth the sacrifices, even when it isn’t quite the fairy tale we sometimes wish for.
—Sandra Garcia-Myers
January 10, 2009
Kylie Sells to Germany
Foreign rights to Kylie Brant’s three upcoming Berkley titles (Waking Nightmare, Waking Evil and Waking the Dead) were sold at auction to Germany recently. The North American releases are fall ‘09, with the foreign releases to follow in 2010.
