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At 1:08pm on March 4, 2009, Chris Tusa said…: Hi,

My name is Chris Tusa, and I'm a writer from New Orleans. My debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com, and I am writing because I was hoping you might be willing to read it and post your thoughts on Amazon.com (or some of the other book review sites). If you're interested, I'd be more than willing to send you an e-book version by e-mail. Just let me know. I've included a summary of the novel below:

Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.

If you'd like to read the first chapter before you commit, feel free to visit my web site:

http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id=894

Thanks so much,
Chris

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Christopher Tusa
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Editor, Poetry Southeast
http://www.christophertusa.com
mail@christophertusa.com

At 10:43pm on February 21, 2008, Kira Chase said…: Just Stopping By To Say Hello!

Kira

At 7:54pm on July 29, 2007, Shawna Moore said…: Hi, Mary!

Love the slide show of pictures from your CO trip :) Thanks for letting me know you posted them. It's always great getting out from behind the keyboard and exploring gorgeous places, isn't it? Well deserved for you, and I'm proud to hear your writing's going well :)

Friends always,

Shawna

At 9:28pm on July 28, 2007, Jeff Sherratt said…: Hi Mary...Hey, what a concept, "romance with an erotic touch..." I like it.

Thanks for the invite!

At 7:48pm on July 28, 2007, Dorien Grey said…: Hi, Mary:

Thanks for asking me to join your Book Place Friends list. I enjoyed your profile and your website...some nice effects.

Having just had my latest book released ("The Dream Ender," Book #11 in my Dick Hardesty Mystery series) I've been running around madly trying to let potential readers know about it. Consider yourself one of them.

If you have a minute, I'd be pleased if you could stop by my website at http://www.doreingrey.net to look at the book trailer video. The first chapter is also there for anyone interested in reading it.

Anyway, I hope to learn more about you and your work here.

Best Regards,

Dorien

At 9:36pm on July 18, 2007, Shawna Moore said…: Hi, Mary!

Lots of positive vibes are flowing your way for finished manuscripts :) I know you'll write "The End" soon :)

Have a great time in CO. Soak up all the beautiful scenic details and add them to future stories ;) Enjoy yourselves to the max!

Friends always,

Shawna

At 12:27pm on July 17, 2007, Shawna Moore said…: Hi, Mary!

I'm really happy to hear your news and always glad to be a sounding board for my good friends :) There's nothing like celebrating publishing successes with fellow authors :)

My writing is going well. I'm working on three projects (plotting one, finishing another, and researching yet a third). The one I'm finishing is an erotic historical paranormal romance. Writing is definitely a passion.

Keep me posted on how things are going in your world. I'm cheering you across those cyber miles :)

Friends always,

Shawna

At 9:59am on July 9, 2007, Michelle Hasker said…: Hi Mary. I've been even worse about stopping by to say Hello. Kids are home/school is out. So many things to do ... so little time.

Have you been able to get much writing done?

At 12:10am on July 9, 2007, Michael Martin said…: Hi Mary! I'm very glad to hear from you. My 4th was dandy and I hope yours was too.

At 10:06am on July 6, 2007, Kathryne Kennedy said…: Thank you, Mary. Nice to meet you!

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Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?: Author, currently published with Whiskey Creek Press Torrid
Avid reader, as indicated by my overflowing bookshelves

Do You Have A Website?: Why yes, thank you for asking. It's...
romance with an erotic touch... www.marychapman.net or just click on the banner below:

Also visit me on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/authormary

About Me:: Since the day I learned to read, I've devoured everything in print, with fiction as my genre of choice. The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries, A Separate Peace, Romeo and Juliet... you name it, I read it. To this day, Jane Austen's Persuasion remains as one of my very favorite novels. I owe my love of writing to Sr. Sue Ann who assigned us something exciting and different for our creative writing exercise--write a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, but no more than twenty-five pages in length.

Was the woman mad? Of course, I exceeded the page limit (duh!), but from that day on, storylines or alternate endings or sequels have whirled in my imagination.

My foray into actual writing was a result of a snit. After reading a romance novel by a famous author who shall remain nameless, I threw the book down and declared, "I can write a better story than that piece of garbage!" So, I sat down at my computer and pounded out a 125K story.

And it was a bigger piece of garbage than the book I'd just read. But I was bit by the bug, and kept writing and writing and writing. It paid off because within the year I had two contracts for short stories under my belt.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

Favorite Books:: There's way too many to name. But here are just a few...

Persuasion by Jane Austen
Possession by A. S. Byatt
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Passion by Lisa Valdez
Time After Time by my friend Sue Haasler
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Too Much Temptation and Never Too Much by Lori Foster
The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn

Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace: Very rarely do I purchase a book online. It's vital that I feel the cover, flip through the pages, catch a whiff of fresh pages. Sorry, but you can't do that online.
And while Barnes & Noble is a nice place, I confess to being a Borders addict. Perhaps it's the relaxed atmosphere, but I feel at home there. Nothing can compare to walking into a Borders and being surrounded by table after table and rack after rack of beautiful, new books and pristine magazines.
Sorry... I think I need a moment.... ;)

It's Halloween, but is shy Rose ready to drop her mask and come out to play? The stranger watching from across the room is more than willing to find out. Read more in "Unmasked," available from Whiskey Creek Press Torrid's Fall Fires, an anthology of erotic short stories guaranteed to warm your chilly autumn nights!

Six years later, and Olivia still can't forget James. Not the how perfectly they danced together, not his sexual magnetism, and certainly not how deeply she once loved him. But she also can't forget when he left her brokenhearted... "Dance With Me," now available in e-book format in Torrid Teasers Volume 12 and in print and e-book in The Best of Torrid Teasers Volume 1, a collection of the ten best Teasers published in 2006 - both from Whiskey Creek Press Torrid.

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The Rockies from horseback

I'm on vacation in Colorado right now, and I dread going back to the same-old, same-old in just a few days. Of course I'm in vacation mode -- not stressing about schedules or deadlines, not worrying about what things need to be done tomorrow or the next day. Yes, I know those things are in the offing, but for now, I'm enjoying the tranquility that's settled over my family.

So, I spent the morning on horseback today, picking my way through the
sagebrush and lodgepole pines and Indian pai… Continue

Posted on July 26, 2007 at 11:20pm — 1 Comment

Great time at Coffee Time Romance!

June is bustin' out all over, all over the meadow and the hills!

Well, we didn't burst out into that song from Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel!, but June was definitely a great time!

Thanks to an invite from Karenne and Co., a number of us authors popped in and out of the Coffee Time Romance board, where we got to visit and chat with readers and fellow authors. We started threads about everything… Continue

Posted on July 2, 2007 at 10:07pm —

Please vote for me!!!

Please please please with whipped cream and toys on top--help me out, here.

I'm entered in Opal Carew's erotic romance contest, which will be judged over the next couple weeks. Please check out the first chapter of my paranormal Hotter Than Hades on Opal Carew's website and let the judges know what you think of Hotter Than Hades. The top three finalists will have their chapters read by Ro… Continue

Posted on May 31, 2007 at 11:16pm —

Free Read: First Kiss

I have no recollection of life before Jake.

When we were children, he made me squeal as he chased after me with lizards and toads, shortly before we perched side-by-side on the bank of the
creek, eagerly hunting for crawdads.

When we were adolescents, we pretended that we found each other gross because boys had cooties and girls didn't, even t

… Continue

Posted on May 23, 2007 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Welcome, Friends!

First off, let me apologize. Despite what you may have seen on MySpace, I'm really not that much of a blogger.

Truly, I'm not. I have to force myself to sit down and write down something oh-so-amusing or really really out there when what I'd rather be doing is working on my latest story. I will, however, occasionally pop in and post a blog with a free read or an interesting tidbit.

Be warned: don't expect many announcements about contracts or new releases. I'm much too slow a… Continue

Posted on May 22, 2007 at 10:28pm —

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Slides, Anyone?

I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.

Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?

A Christmas Tree Already

On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.

Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.

With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.

While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?

Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life

I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.

For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.

PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!

CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter

One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.

Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.

I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.

What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?