Thursday, April 17, 2008
Doors open at 5:30 pm
Program begins at 6:30 pm
With the Romantic Times convention in town we've gathered a group of romance, mystery and suspense authors for a special program on Thursday, April 28 at 6 pm.
To accomodate everyone comfortably we'll have the event at the St. Irenaeus Church Social Hall on Maryland Avenue, around the corner from the store.
Keep checking this page for updates as we begin to assemble the program.
If you are an author who would like to attend, please Contact Us.
Tickets to the Little Night of Romance are available in advance for $7, at the door for $8. If you purchase tickets to the Little Night of Romance, you'll also get admission to our Festival of Mystery on April 28.
You can purchase tickets online. For multiple ticket purchases you can adjust the quantity in the shopping cart before you check out.
One great ticket, two great events
Buy your ticket to the Little Night of Romance and the same ticket will get you into the Festival of Mystery on April 28. Over 40 authors will join us for a night of interviews and entertainment.
 Festival of Mystery and Little Night of Romance Ticket, $7
Lori Andrews is the author of THE SILENT ASSASSIN and SEQUENCE, thrillers involving Dr. Alexandra (“Alex”) Blake, a geneticist with a passion for her work and a penchant for fleeting romances with musicians and artists. A frequent guest on Nightline, 60 Minutes, CBS Morning News, and Oprah, Lori was listed by the American Bar Association Journal as “a 2008 Newsmaker of the Year--a lawyer with a literary bent who has the scientific chops to rival any CSI investigator.” The Library Journal said, “Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, watch out!”
After serving in the Air Force as a registered nurse, Lori Avocato decided to write fiction. The bestselling author has sold a humorous mystery series about a burned out nurse who becomes a medical insurance fraud investigator. The sixth in the series is . There are six books available in that series. She also sold nine romance novels in the past and knows about the ins and outs of this crazy business.
Cordelia Biddle
used her own family history as the basis for her new mystery series featuring Martha Beale, an heiress in 1842 Philadelphia. In the debut novel The Conjurer, Martha investigates the mysterious disappearance of her father. A sequel in this meticulously researched series,
Deception's Daughter, is due in August.
D.B.
Borton continues her series for Cincinnati housewife turned PI Cat
Caliban with the series now numbering eight.Eight Miles High was
published last year. When not writing, the author is a prof at Ohio
Wesleyan University.
Lillian Stewart Carl has published fifteen novels and twenty-five short stories featuring plots based on mythology, history, and archaeology. Her work has been compared to the classic novels of Daphne du Maurier, Mary Renault, Mary Stewart (no relation), and Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters, except Lillian's take place squarely in the twenty-first century, where the past lingers on into the present, especially in the British Isles, her home away from home.
A life-long fascination with history led Kathryn Caskie to detour from television and newspaper writing to a successful career writing historical romance. She's just completed the delightful Royle sisters trilogy in which three sisters, with a hint of royal blood, find their romantic destinies as well as the truth about their origins. Kathryn lives with her family outside of Washington DC and is fittingly devoted to vintage jewelry, period books and antiques.
Toni McGee Causey lives in Baton Rouge with her husband and two sons; a Louisiana native (and Cajun), she has nearly completed a double masters at LSU. She's placed in top tier screenwriting contests, published many non-fiction articles and edited a popular regional magazine. To support her writing addiction, she and her husband Carl run their own civil construction company. BOBBIE FAYE'S VERY (very, very, very) BAD DAY is the first in a three-book deal with St. Martin's press on a pre-empt; the chaotic, rollercoaster thriller world of Bobbie Faye owes much to Toni having way more experience than she'd like to own up to in the world of trouble-shooting, disaster-prevention and survival. She is also a contributor to the KILLER YEAR: STORIES TO DIE FOR, edited by Lee Child and out from St. Martin's Press, January '08. The second Bobbie Faye book, titled BOBBIE FAYE'S (kinda, sorta, not-exactly) FAMILY JEWELS will be out June 1st.
Carole Nelson Douglas is the first author to spin off a woman character from the Sherlock Holmes stories. Her Irene Adler series debuted with the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. The latest of her Midnight Louie, feline P.I, mystery series set in Las Vegas features a murderous Red Hat ladies convention (Cat in a Red Hot Rage).Darkly contrasting Louie’s “slightly surreal” contemporary Vegas is Carole’s noir urban fantasy series: Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator.Dancing with Werewolves is set in a 2013 Sin City where CSI is an international franchise, werewolf mobsters abound, and “celebrity zombies” include Perry Mason, Nick Charles, and the Invisible man. Whatever she writes, humor finds a place at the table, even an autopsy table.
Lori Foster is a USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and New York Times bestselling author. She has received the Romantic Times “Career Achievement Award” for Series Romantic Fantasy and Contemporary Romance. As well as writing romances in all lengths, Lori also has an urban fantasy series under the name L. L. Foster.
National bestselling author Shane Gericke spent 25 years as a journalist, most prominently at the Chicago Sun-Times, before plunging into crime thrillers. His new thriller, CUT TO THE BONE, also from Kensington, continues the hard-charging Detective Emily Thompson series. Shane, who also writes for a variety of national magazines, is a founding member of International Thriller Writers.
Lois Greiman was born on a cattle ranch in central North Dakota where she learned to ride and spit with the best of them. She sold her first novel to Avon Books in 1992 and has published more than twenty titles since then, including romantic comedy, historical romance, children’s stories, and her fun-loving Christina McMullen mysteries. Ms Greiman has won such prestigious honors as Romantic Times Storyteller Of The Year, MFW’s Rising Star, RT’s Love and Laughter, the Toby Bromberg for most humorous mystery, and the LaVyrle Spencer Award. Her heroes have received K.I.S.S. recognition numerous times and her books have been seen regularly among the industries Top Picks! Currently, she lives on the Minnesota tundra with her family, some of whom are human.
Born and raised in Tornado Alley, Kim Harrison now resides in the more sultry climes of South Carolina. The bestselling author of Dead Witch Walking, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead, Every Which Way But Dead, A Fistful of Charms, and For A Few Demons More, she haunts the stores for good music, good chocolate, and tall leather boots.
New Jersey born clinical psychologist Roberta Isleib's series, starring a Connecticut psychologist and advice columnist, debuted in 2007 with DEADLY ADVICE and PREACHING TO THE CORPSE.
Roberta is the president of International Sisters in Crime and the past president of the New England chapter. She is also a member of Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, and the Authors Guild. She lives with her family in Connecticut.
'Harley
Jane Kozak delighted mystery fans with her smart and funny debut Dating Dead Men that introduced greeting card designer Wollie
Shelley in a madcap mystery that features serial dating, ferrets,
dead bodies and a brother in the asylum. The third, Dead Ex was published last year.
Lynn LaFleur was born and raised in a small town in Texas close to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. After living in various places on the West Coast for 21 years, she is back in Texas, 17 miles from her hometown. Lynn also publishes with Ellora’s Cave and when not writing at every possible moment, she loves reading, sewing, gardening, and learning new things on the computer.
Award-winning medical suspense author CJ Lyons is a physician trained in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She has assisted police and prosecutors with cases involving child abuse, rape, homicide and Munchausen by Proxy and has worked in numerous trauma centers, as a crisis counselor, victim advocate, as well as a flight physician for Life Flight. Publisher's Weekly proclaimed her debut medical suspense novel, LIFELINES, "a spot-on debut….a breathtakingly fast-paced medical thriller" and Romantic Times made it a Top Pick.
Pittsburgh writer Nancy Martin has a long and successful career of writing romance titles. six years ago she turned her hand to mystery with outstanding results in the first of the Blackbird Sisters series: How to Murder a Millionaire which introduced a group of Philadelphia blue bloods fallen on hard times. The seventh, Murder Melts in Your Mouth, has just been published in hardcover.
Sophia Nash's first three novels won a total of eight national awards, including the prestigious RITA Award and a spot on the American Library Association's "Top Ten Romances of the Year." Sophia was born in Switzerland, and raised in France and the United States, but says her heart resides in Regency England. Her ancestor, an infamous French admiral who traded epic cannon fire with the British Royal Navy, is surely turning in his grave. Before pursuing her long-held dream of writing Historicals, Sophia was an award-winning television producer, a congressional speechwriter, and a nonprofit CEO.
Award-winning reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan writes the best-selling Charlotte McNally Mysteries, featuring a successful investigative reporter who is married to her TV job, but wonders what happens when the camera doesn't love her anymore. Hank is a former staffer at Rolling Stone Magazine (where she worked with Hunter S. Thompson) and legislative aide in the United States Senate (where she worked on the Freedom of Information Act), She is currently on the air at Boston's NBC affiliate, where she's won 24 Emmys and dozens of other awards for her investigative reporting. Her first books, PRIME TIME and FACE TIME are best sellers. AIR TIME and DRIVE TIME are coming soon from MIRA.
Patricia Smiley’s debut novel False Profits, which introduced financial consultant Tucker Sinclari, received a starred review from Booklist and was a Book Sense recommendation. Her follow-up novel Cover Your Assets was a RomanticTimes Top Pick. Both novels were Los Angeles Times Bestsellers. Short Change, the third in the series,was released last year.
Kerrelyn Sparks's first paranormal romance, How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire, flew out of the bat cave in 2005 and survived three weeks on the "USA Today" Bestseller list. In 2006, Vamps and the City became the second book in the "Love At Stake" series. She joins us with the brand-new The Undead Next Door. Kerrelyn lives in the Greater Houston area with her husband and brilliant children. At this time, there are no vampires in her family. Werewolves are another matter entirely.
Award-winning, critically acclaimed author Wendy Corsi Staub has written more than sixty novels and is best known for the New York Times bestselling suspense novels she has written under her own name. Writing as Wendy Markham, she is a USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen chick lit and romantic comedies. Currently under contract with five publishers, she will release six new novels in various genres from December 2006 through the September 2007, culminating in the launch of her paranormal young adult series, Lily Dale, just optioned for television.
Sarah
Strohmeyer was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this former reporter and
author of Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the
Barbie Obsession has fashioned a hilariously special sleuth in Bubbles
Yablonsky of Lehigh, Pennsylvania who featured in six hilarious mysteries. Since then Sarah has turned her considerable talents to novels with humor and romance beginning with Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives. That was followed by best sellers including The Cinderella Pact and the Sleeping Beauty Proposal. Sweet Love is due out in June.
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