Things You Might Want To Know

• Go watch the Nora Roberts movie Monday, January 29th on Lifetime at 9:00. It's Angels Fall and there will be three more, Montana Sky, Blue Smoke and Carolina Moon, for the next 3 Mondays! Though none of them are Silhouettes (sniff) they are all Nora's, so they are wonderful stories. We not only should support our very own national treasure, we need to show Lifetime there is a real audience for stories that deliver a feel-good experience. Consider it your job.

• Angela Bassett and her husband Courtney B. Vance wrote a book, FRIENDS: A LOVE STORY, detailing the story of their lives, courtship, marriage and the recent birth of their twins. It's coming out this February--Black History month and Valentine's, is that perfect or what?

• I got a chance to read the proposal and found it opened a window into a intriguing world I knew little about. Mavis Allen, their Kimani editor, found the final story "a fascinating and intimate look at two highly talented, complex artists' emotional, spiritual and romantic journey. It gave me a glimpse of two very public people's private world. I found it riveting."

• The book will be published on Valentine’s Day, Feb 14th, 2007.

Yes, St. Valentine's Day is coming up--are you ready? I use the inspiration of sending a Valentine to send all the thank-you notes I haven't gotten around to sending yet (!) and as a way to say "I love you" to all the people in my life that are precious to me for so many reasons and in so many ways.

Intimate Moments becomes Silhouette Romantic Suspense.

Susan Wiggs has launched her own blog. Before you go and say hello, go to your bookstore and grab a copy of THE WINTER LODGE, Book two of Susan's Lakeshore Chronicles. But before you do that, click here for a $1.00 off coupon, Valid 1/30/07 to 2/4/07, also available on her website. You can check out the starred Publisher's weekly review, if you need convincing! Then check in to the lodge that was the inspiration for her novel--a wonderfully writer and reader friendly place to be.

There are some great bundles of eBook bundles, some delicious and sizzling ones from Susan Mallery!

Seth Godin talked about how cool MJ Rose's initiative for THRILLER--a collection of stories from fabulous thriller writers--is on his highly popular blog...how cool is that? He talks about her initiative: "MJ Rose points us to http://www.150thrillers.com/ and talks about the power of writers pooling their resources.

• For those who don't bother to click:"There are some real insights here. The first is that having 'competitors' band together to gain attention is really smart and really rare...By using the Net to coordinate their audiences, they all win.

• The second brilliancy is that the only people who want to win the prize are the people who'd like to get the newsletter... Instead, what they've done is created an easy way for one thriller reader to introduce the newsletter to another... "hey, I know you like Stuart Woods, check this out...

• Wanna bet that newsletter subscribers end up buying more books?"

• MJ is highly websavvy--check out her blog Buzz, Balls and Hype. I think she occasionally offers courses.

Linda Lael Miller's first in the exciting new McKettrick series, MCKETTRICK'S LUCK is out right now with a great PW review!

• PW has starred review of MCKETTRICK'S PRIDE by Linda Lael Miller. HQN Books, coming out in March, 2007.

February launch of Everlasting Love, two books a month: check out DANCING ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS by Linda Cardillo and FALL FROM GRACE by Kristi Gold.

In February, Harlequin Romance will combine the best of both the Harlequin and Silhouette Romance stories in a six title a month line.