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News and Coming Events

Avon, Harlequin, Kensington & Virgin Books’

New Erotic Romance Lines One Year Later:

What They Want &
How To Get It To Them

New lines are always exciting. Being in the right place at the right time with the right book can get you sold, as is what happened to Sunny. Even more exciting is having three major publishers releasing similar new erotic romance lines all at the same time—a huge opportunity for aspiring authors. Come hear from the acquiring editors themselves. Learn what worked and what didn’t for their new erotic romance lines, what they want now, and how to get it to them.

Come hear from the acquiring editors themselves. Learn what worked and what didn’t for their new erotic romance lines, what they want now, and how to get it to them.

Kensington Aphrodisia author, Sunny, will discuss how selling a novella to Kensington’s new line launched her writing career, led to a fabulous 4-book 2-series deal with Berkley, garnered appearances on Geraldo At Large and CNBC, and won an award for her.

We will discuss crucial and specific submission guidelines, the names of acquiring editors of each house, whether they accept novellas or not, and give vital Do’s and Do Not Even Go There’s. Come learn how to write for these erotic lines, the difference between these new lines—Avon’s Romantica vs. more hard-core erotic fiction with Kensington’s Aphrodisia and Harlequin’s Spice lines—and how to write the best book for each.

*Date:*	*Saturday, July 14, 2007*
*Time:*	*2:00 - 3:00 pm*
*Place:*	*TBA*

Panelists

	Sunny, Author Sunny is the national bestselling author of MONA LISA BLOSSOMING, and the wife of literary novelist Da Chen. A Vassar graduate and former family practice physician, Sunny has found writing passionate love stories to be much more fun. She has been featured on Fox News Channel’s Geraldo At Large, CNBC, and Boston’s Channel 7 News. MONA LISA AWAKENING, her first dark erotic paranormal, was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “sizzling debut.” She launches a second spin-off series with Berkley, the DEMON PRINCESS CHRONICLES, with the release of LUCINDA, DARKLY this August. For excerpts, please visit www.sunnyauthor.com.
	Anne Elizabeth, Author Anne Elizabeth has a Bachelor¹s in Business and a Master¹s in Communications with specialties in marketing, PR and writing. She was last year¹s moderator and now is an author in the Atria/Simon & Schuster collection CARAMEL FLAVA edited by Zane. Her spicy story SUGAR AND BUTTER POURED OVER MUSCLE was featured in a layout in ROMANTIC TIMES, and her sweet romance A HEART¹S HUNGER is in the Highland Press collection, RECIPE FOR LOVE. From sexy and sizzling to intriguing and paranormal, Anne Elizabeth is involved in many projects, including a cameo in Laurell K. Hamilton¹s Issue #7 of the Anita Blake comic book series. Catch her in her trademark little corset this August at WIZARD WORLD - Chicago, or ask her about CoLoNY, the Southern Connecticut and Lower New York Chapter of RWA, where she is President. See the latest news of events and happenings for her, and her chapter members at romance-writers-colony.org .
	Hilary Sares, Editor Hilary Sares has been a Kensington editor for nine years, acquiring contemporaries and historicals for Zebra and Brava, and erotic romance for the new Aphrodisia line. The daughter of a magazine and mystery writer, and the granddaughter of an AP reporter, Hilary grew up in Manhattan and now lives across the river in that state everyone makes fun of. Two daughters, one dachshund.
	Susan Pezzack Swinwood, Editor Susan Pezzack Swinwood is a born-and-bred Torontonian who grew up mere minutes from the Harlequin offices where she works as Editor for MIRA Books and Spice Books. She earned her Honours B.A. from the University of Toronto, and a degree in Publishing from Ryerson University with a focus on editing. Susan joined Harlequin’s Marketing department in 1999, and soon moved to Editorial where she spent three years working on the series side of the business. Susan switched to the MIRA single title team in 2002, and now works with a number of contemporary fiction and women’s fiction authors. In addition to her MIRA authors, Susan is also the acquiring editor for Spice, Harlequin’s erotic fiction single title imprint.
	Adam Nevill, Editor Adam lives in London and has a BA (Hons) in English Literature and a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews. He began writing professionally for magazines and newspapers in 1995, before switching exclusively to fiction. He is the author of nine erotic novels under the name Lindsay Gordon, published by the Nexus imprint at Virgin Books, and of the occult thriller Banquet for the Damned under his own name. His short supernatural fiction will be featured in the 2005 Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies in both the UK and US. He began editing Nexus in January 2005 and became Erotica Editor of all fiction imprints and erotic memoirs for Virgin Books in June 2005. He currently commissions and edits around seventy books a year with his assistant editor Donna Condon.
	May Chen, Editor May Chen is an editor with Morrow/Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. She works primarily in women’s fiction. In addition to enjoying well-written, lush historical romances, she also loves diving into sexy eroticas, commercial non-fiction, "chick-lit" with a unique angle and strong women's fiction with edgy, take-no-guff heroines! She is actively acquiring for Avon's new erotica line, Avon Red.
	Renee Bernard, Panel Moderator Renee Bernard is a freelance writer and a contributor to Romantic Times Bookclub magazine. A Lady’s Pleasure (Pocket Books, November 2006) is her first novel and just won an award from RT for “Best First Historical Romance of 2006”. She also wrote a story for the School of Heiresses anthology (Pocket Books, January 2007), which made the USA Today bestseller list. Her next novel, Madame’s Deception, is due out this September. Renee currently lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California. For more information, please visit her website at www.reneebernardauthor.com