Los Angeles Romance Authors (LARA) provides educational and motivational support for published and aspiring romance writers. LARA is affiliated with the Romance Writers of America®. Both the LARA Chapter and RWA are Nonprofit Organizations.

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Member News

Leap of Faith by Kate Willoughby is coming out October 26 from Liquid Silver Books. It’s a story for anyone who ever fantasized about a man decked out in a loincloth.

Dawn Halliday’s hot Highlander novella Winter Heat will be released by Penguin/NAL on November 3 as part of the A Highlander Christmas Anthology.

The Seeking Kiss by Eden Bradley, an erotic /vampire/urban fantasy/menage novella from Samhain, the first book in her new Midnight Playground series, will be out on October 20.

Also, Eden’s latest erotic novel from Bantam/Delta, The Beauty of Surrender, will be out October 27. This is a two-part erotic novel with a Shibari rope bondage theme.

Milestones

Charity Hammond submitted her erotica short story The Sunset Hour to Harlequin Spice Briefs. She also entered the Dorchester/Textnovel contest.

Krista Johnson finished her novel—an 85,000-word single title contemporary romance with comic elements. She also entered it in the NYC Love and Laughter Contest.

Rochelle Staab received a request for the first fifty pages of her first novel from agent Betsy Amster.

Scholastic Books has asked Carol Hughes to develop two Middle Grade series for them based upon a 2 chapter critique for the first series.

Lynne Marshall sold her ninth Medical Romance to Harlequin Mills and Boon on October 1st. It will be out in August, 2010.

Suzanne Lazear received a partial request for Stakes & Corsets from Scott Egan at Greyhaus Literary Agency. Harlequin Teen rejected her YA Interfluit.

Suzanne also finished her urban fantasy manuscript Renegade: After the brutal murder of her fiancé, Bonnie Petrova returns to Stornholdt after seven years’ freedom in the human world. But Bonnie’s no longer sure she wants to lead the life she left behind, and her sworn enemy is not going to leave her alone until he gets his own revenge.

Carol Ericson finished her manuscript and sent it to her editor at Harlequin.

Donna Beltz w/a D.B. Reynolds took first place in the published category of the RWA Utah Heart of the West contest, and the final judge, Miriam Kriss of the Irene Goodman Agency, requested her full manuscript.

Eden Bradley contracted a four-story erotic romance series with Samhain-The Celestial Seductions Series, which will be four short novellas, will be released over the next year.

Georgie Lee sold a contemporary romance titled Labor Relations to Avalon.

Jenna Ives' sexy novella The Initiation Of Isabella was released by Samhain on September 29 and made the bestseller list at My Bookstore And More two days later!

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Our Next Meeting - February 21, 2010

Guest Speaker(s): Maggie Jessup
Success Blueprint

Success Blueprint is a how-to guide to creating a "success blueprint" for people in any profession to quickly make it to the top of their field.



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  • completed a manuscript
  • received a rejection or revisions letter
  • received a request for your MS
  • finaled in or won a contest
  • made a submission to any publisher or agent
  • made a sale
  • signed with an agent

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