Fortunate Harbor is now on sale at your favorite bookstore. Don't forget to print the $1.50 coupon to use during the first week of sale. Find it here: http://www.emilierichards.com/blog/?p=202
Authors in Motion, a three day, eight stop book tour with authors Rachel Vincent, Gena Showalter, Carla Neggers and Susan Mallery was a delight. Read about the "Glamorous Life of the Touring Author" on Emilie's blog.
Publisher's Weekly had a great review of Fortunate Harbor (July 2010):
"A juicy, sprawling beach read with a suspenseful twist, Richards's sunny sequel to Happiness Key reveals the next life step for Tracy Deloche and her tenant friends in Florida. . . Secrets, friendships, and the Florida gulf coast all come into play in Richards's engaging latest."
Happiness Key is now available in mass market paperback format. Fortunate Harbor debuts on June 29th in an easy to read trade edition.
Emilie and her husband traveled to New Zealand for ten days in February as guests of Polyphon and ZDF to see her novel Sweet Georgia Gal turned into a film for German television. For photos, see her Facebook page. For more details, check Southern Exposure, Emilie's blog. More movies to come, too.
Iron Lace and Rising Tides will be reissued in September and November with brand new covers.
A Stranger's Son, one of my most popular novellas, will be reissued with novellas by Linda Howard and Sherryl Woods in a Mother's Day anthology, A Mother's Touch, in May.
A Truth for a Truth, the fifth book in the Ministry is Murder series, will be out in October of 2010.
Emilie will be appearing at the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 20th. See the events list for details.
What a great signing in December at the Sanibel Island Bookshop in Sanibel, Florida. Happiness Key was a local bestseller for two weeks thanks to Hollie and her dedicated staff. Interested readers can contact this great independent store in January, too, to get a signed and personalized copy while Emilie's still in town.
Worried you won't find another novel on the shelves about Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and the town of Emerald Springs? Worry no more. Emilie's hard at work on book five. What's the obvious title after A Lie for A Lie? Easy. A Truth for a Truth. Stay tuned for pub date.
Visit my Quilt Studio Show and Tell to see photos from one of my favorite quilting readers and her family, inspired by the Shenandoah Album series.
Thanks to all my wonderful readers who turned out for the Buckeye Bookfair in Wooster, OH on Saturday, November 7. It was wonderful to see old friends and meet new ones. Buckeye is such a great event.
Join Emilie at Chautauqua Institution in Western NY for a Special Studies class on writing the mystery novel. The class runs from August 17-21, at 2:30-3:30 in the Alumni Hall ballroom. We'll discuss basic skills and the particular requirements of the traditional mystery.
Visit Emilie's Facebook page for up to date news and comments. You can even become her "fan."
Visit Emilie's Quilt Studio "Block of the Month" page for the new July stocking pattern from Sister's Choice. Join quilters all over the country and sew along with Emilie and pattern/fabric designer Pat Sloan.
Visit Emilie's blog to print a coupon for a $1.50 discount on your purchase of Happiness Key. Coupon valid until July 31st at the discretion of your favorite bookseller.
Visit www.freshfiction.com and enjoy their "Christmas in July" celebration. Emilie is one of the authors offering a gift giveaway for one lucky reader. Enter to win Emilie's J. Crew straw beach bag and a Bath and Body Works "Fun in the Sun" gift set, along with your autographed copy of Happiness Key.
Read all about Emilie's latest contests, including a fun new Facebook quiz to help you find out which Happiness Key character you're most like.
Emilie will be autographing at the Romance Writer's of America Reader's for Life Literacy Event on July 15th. Come meet your favorite authors and have Emilie sign Happiness Key.
Visit veoh.com to "see" a video excerpt of Endless Chain. It's a preview of the new audiobook from BBC Audiobooks America, and the reader is wonderful.
Sister's Choice, the fifth book of the Shenandoah Album series, is now available in mass market paperback at your favorite bookstore as well as in audio download. Details on the download at BBC Audiobooks America.
5.4 million people watched the debut of Sehnsuch nach Neuseeland on German television. Das Paradies am Ende der Welt debuts on May 10th.
Emilie and Pat Sloan, quilt designer, now have four patterns to enjoy in their Season of Grace block of the month quilt. It's not too late to join in and work on your own version. Visit Emilie's quilt studio and click on block of the month to get started. Anyone making the quilt and posting a photo on the Season of Grace Flickr page, is automatically entered in a grand prize giveaway.
Gumshoe Review has a great review of A Lie for a Lie in their May edition, including the quote: "Part of the joy of reading Richards comes from her quirky and fully rounded characters."
Sehnsuch nach Neuseeland, the German made for television movie based on Emilie's novel Smoke Screen debuts on German television on May 3rd.
May is the last month to enter and win the delightful Noah's Ark musical water globe on Emilie's contest website. Just answer one simple question about A Lie for a Lie. Then, beginning in June, watch for a brand new contest to celebrate Emilie's upcoming novel, Happiness Key, along with four mini-contests, leading up to publication.
Out of the Ashes, one of Emilie's Silhouette novels, is now being filmed in New Zealand for a German television movie which will be seen by millions there. A recent online newspaper tells the story. The star hopes to raise awareness in Germany for protection of the yellow-eyed penguin. Read all about it here.
A Lie for a Lie was number 6 on the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association bestseller list. Yay Aggie. Go get 'em girl.
Block of the Month patterns debut for your enjoyment. Emilie and Pat Sloan, quilt and fabric designer, are hard at work on free block of the month patterns for 2009. The first month debuted on Pat's website in February, and the second will be posted on Emilie's during the first week of March. Emilie and Pat are taking turns with the blocks on their websites. Stop by Emilie's quilt studio to see the fun in progress. The finished quilt is based on one in Emilie's novel, Sister's Choice, and suitable for even the newest quilter.
A Lie for a Lie from Berkley Prime Crime is at bookstores near you. Visit one to find your very own copy and discover what Aggie's up to now.
Emilie's new contest is up and running now. Enter to win an adorable Noah's ark musical water globe.
Mira will issue Emilie's next novel, Happiness Key in trade paperback in July 2009. So those of you who prefer to buy and read paperbacks won't have to wait a year. Mira will follow this with a mass market paperback version in 2010.
With Happiness Key still months from publication, Emilie has already agreed to write the sequel, tentatively titled The Treasure of Happiness Key. She's looking forward to a new adventure with the women who live there.
Emilie's novels From Glowing Embers and Smokescreen are being filmed for television by a German production company. The movies are set to debut in May.
Sister's Choice and Wedding Ring are both available from BBC Audio at your favorite library, so ask them to order if they haven't already. Find Sister's Choice at Audible.com, and Itunes, too, followed soon by Wedding Ring. Watch for the other Shenandoah Album books in 2009.
Mira Books has donated multiple copies of Sister’s Choice to cancer centers throughout the Shenandoah Valley after a reader pointed out how much she wished the book was available to breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Thanks, Mira, for so graciously stepping up to the plate.
