Avon-books Romance Novels
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'Twas the Week Before Christmas...
By: Erika Tsang
And all through the office...no one was stirring, least of all me. And since it's so quiet here, let's have some fun! Last week on Twitter, I asked you to browse inside the first few chapters of [...]
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A Day in the Life of an Art Director
By: Erika Tsang
Avon Books has some of the best covers in the industry, and one of the people responsible is Gail Dubov, our associate art director. Gail has generously agreed to give us a glimpse into a day in her life... 6:43 am Have run off with a tall, handsome Duke to his manor house on the coast of Cornwall. Sun rising, wind blowing, muscular [...]
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A Day in the Life of an In-House Publicist
By: Erika Tsang
Pamela Spengler-Jaffee is Avon's publicist extraordinaire. It's not all about planning parties and drinks with the media ...as she'll share with you a day in her life... 5 a.m. Alarm sounds. Do I want to get up? Having middle-of-the-night agita about New York ComicCon booth [...]
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A Day in the Life of Kerrelyn Sparks
By: Erika Tsang
Kerrelyn Sparks, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Love at Stake series (which was a clue on Jeopardy! recently), has generously agreed to give us a glimpse into her day... 7:29 am-- I stumble into the bathroom and step on the scales. Hallelujah!! I’ve lost five po [...]
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A Good (Fiery) Man Isn’t Hard to Find
By: Mary Curran Hackett
Why are we here? Why do the people we love the most have to leave us? And where do we go after it happens? [...]
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A Report from BEA
By: CathyMaxwell
“Wear sensible shoes.” That was the advice my good friend, bookseller Kelly Justice of the Fountain Bookstore gave me when I asked about Book Expo America. Or BEA as those in “the know” refer to it. This is my first BEA. I followed Kelly’s shoe instructions and I’m glad I have. The gathering of booksellers, publishers, vendors, and writers is like a fifty ring circus on steroids. [...]
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A Second Helping by Author Beverly Jenkins
By: Shawn Nicholls
A SECOND HELPING is the latest installment in the series that began with BRING ON BLESSINGS. Who knew that there could be so much excitement in a small town on the plains of Kansas, or that this same town, founded in the 1880s by freed slaves would still be alive and kicking in the 21st century? Granted, the years in between took their toll, and the town fathers and mothers had to put the town up [...]
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A Wedding of Her Own...
By: Maya Rodale
Just once month until the wedding… I mean it this time. My wedding. Coming right up. Gah. Previously, I had only to worry about a certain fictional wedding in my latest, A GROOM OF ONE’S OWN. There was plenty to worry about there: Two weeks before [...]
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All the Flowers in Shanghai
By: Wendy Lee
If you're a fan of sweeping historical novels set in China, such as Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Shanghai Girls, or Dreams of Joy by Lisa See, you won't want to miss [...]
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Avon Authors and Editors at New York ComicCom 2010!
By: May Chen
I had the best time this weekend (October 8th-10th) hanging out with our Avon paranormal romance authors Jeaniene Frost, Marjorie M. Liu, Pamela Palmer and Juliana Stone at NYCC-- and I have the pictures to prove it! Eos authors Robin Becker, Jocel [...]
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Avon invites YOU to be the Writer #2
By: Amanda Bergeron
A quick refresher on how this works. Avon Invites YOU to be the Writer is a twice-monthly chance for you show off your writing chops and creative flair. Every couple weeks, we post our prompt and let you have at it in the comments below. Eve [...]
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Avon invites YOU to be the Writer #3
By: Amanda Bergeron
All right, I think by now you know the drill, but for any newcomers (welcome!) here's how this works: We post a prompt, and you write a short scene in the comments. Comment as much as you like, because at the end of two weeks (and only if we have hit 25 entries) a randomly selected [...]
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Be Careful What You Pray For
By: Wendy Lee
New York Times bestselling author Kimberla Lawson Roby is back with the latest installment in her extremely popular Reverend Curtis Black series, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR. The last time we saw the Reverend’s daughter Alicia Black, she had learned some v [...]
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Books to TV: What Could Be Better (or Worse)?
By: Esi Sogah
Recently, I've been texting everything I can find about HBO's GAME OF THRONES to my brother. He's a big fan of the books and mentioned to me in January that it was being made into an HBO series, a fact he found exciting for two reasons: 1) as I said, he's a big fan and 2) fantasy series are not always the first (or second, or third) chosen for ada [...]
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Books We Love
By: Wendy Lee
In honor of Valentine’s Day, which is just around the corner, this week on the Avon blog will be devoted to things we love—and things YOU loveFirst up, books we love…and to narrow it down, how about books that have “love” in the title? Fortunately, since we are talking about the world of romance, “love” is probably the most commonly used word on a cover (with the second mo [...]
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