Patricia’s newsletter Part 3

My newsletter last month suffered a few problems, so some of my writing friends were not introduced to you. Here they are for your reading enjoyment:

Kay Gregory’s lovely book ‘A Woman of Experience’ is a finalist in the single title category of the Wisconsin Romance Writers' Write Choice: Readers' Awards.
"Life, love and laughter in the 50's.”Look for it atwww.novelbooksinc.com in print and e formats.

Cassandra Blizzard announces her most recent book, titled ‘Broken.’ It is dedicated to all women who have been prey and to all children who have survived abusive homes. Cassandra has three books out, all of which can be viewed on her website at www.cdblizzard.com

Marsha Briscoe : www.marshabriscoe.com announces two books:
A STILL POINT IN TIME (2001 PEARL Award Finalist)
Single, childless, and forty-three, English Professor Laura Bouvoire becomes pregnant through invitro fertilization. But when she falls in love with her thirty-year old student, Dante Giovanni, her pregnancy nearly shatters their relationship. Dante considers "test-tube babies" morally repugnant. Haunted by dreams of 19th century lovers, Laura suspects a past life neither she nor Dante can escape.

A FAMILY MATTER
Scandal erupts in eastern Kentucky when an injured coal baron's estranged son comes home to tend his comatose father and falls in love with his father's young wife, Salina. Salina must choose between her professed vow of family vindication and her rapidly escalating attraction to her stepson.

Judy Bagshaw (http://writerlady.homestead.com/homepage.html) is pleased to announce the release of her latest romantic suspense novel featuring a plus-sized heroine, in print and ebook June 15, 2003 from Electric eBook Publishing http://www.electricebookpublishing.com
Here's a short excerpt from Lady Blue also:
Guy Latimer sat in the dark of the club, stunned by the sheer brilliance of the performance he was witnessing. Sabrina Blue was a genius! And he should know. He had made his reputation on knowing genius when he saw it.
His ability had first manifested itself with his discovery of the alternative rock band, Razor Sharp. They became an overnight sensation hitting almost instant gold and setting the trend in music for the next three years. Guy became known as the producer with the Midas touch. His next find had been Angelique Sand, a sexy young African-American woman with a voice like smooth dark chocolate. She was still sitting at the top of the charts and just signed a major movie deal. The future was Guy’s.
Guy’s production company, King Midas Inc., was now the biggest in the country. At 38, he had everything he had ever wanted in life. He was rich, successful, popular and in demand. If he perhaps felt a little lonely from time to time, he ignored it. He had married once and that was enough. He’d discovered that women craved his money and his fame, not him. His divorce had been an expensive lesson, as had his experience with tabloid journalists.
He turned his thoughts back to the singer on stage. Sabrina Blue. Catchy name, It would market well. He let himself get swept up in her voice again.
"…lover man, oh where can you be…"
She closed her eyes when she sang and held the mike close in both hands, almost caressing the metal. Her hair was a glorious black waterfall down her back and across her shoulders. It was so long. She must almost sit on it. Her lips were full and sensuous. Kissable lips. The beaded batwing dress that fell to the floor and was slit on one side to mid-thigh showed an enticing expanse of leg. The keyhole neckline teased with its seductive show of cleavage.
Guy shook his head. What was he doing fantasizing about a singer who was nowhere near his type? He liked tall, slim, leggy blondes. Sabrina Blue was tall, sure. But she was so big, so curvaceous. Granted, she was well proportioned, not unlike Marilyn Monroe had been, and elegant. Yes, elegant and majestic. There was grace in the way she swayed sensually to the music. Her skin looked so soft and smooth. It was pale contrasted against her dark hair. It would probably feel like silk.
Guy Latimer, you’re losing it! He endeavored to focus on the magical singing but kept being pulled back to the singer. What was it about her that was so compelling?
At last her set was finished and Guy moved purposefully to where she sat with a group of enthusiastic fans. He told himself it was a purely business move—the need to sign her before a competitor did. But a disturbing thought haunted him that perhaps another kind of need was at work."
copyright 2003; Judy Bagshaw

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