Happy holidays and happy birthday, Harlequin!
Lady Jane heralds the winter holiday season and celebrates the final month of Harlequin Enterprises 60th anniversary year with a very special salon event.
Salon co-founder and award-winning author, Hope Tarr will read from her Christmas Historical Blaze novel, Twelve Nights, which happens to be Hope’s twelfth published book. Twelve Nights is the sequel to Bound to Please, the novel that launched the super popular Historical Blaze Miniseries. The book will be available for purchase on-site, and Hope will be signing copies at the break and immediately thereafter.
We also welcome a very special guest, Senior Editor for Harlequin Blaze, Brenda Chin, who will be making the trip from HQ headquarters in Toronto to join us. Brenda has been with Harlequin for twenty years during which time she’s worked on several of Harlequin’s series, including Superromance, Romance & Presents, Temptation, and Regency Romance. Most recently, she was honored as Editor of the Year 2009 by the Romance Writers of America’s New York City chapter. We at Lady Jane’s can’t wait for her very special presentation recapping Harlequin’s 60th Anniversary year.
The Salon meets on Monday, December 7th from 7-9 PM at Madame X (94 West Houston) in Manhattan’s trend-setting Soho district. (Subsequent salon nights are the first Monday of each month). Admission is $5 or one gently used paperback romance novel to benefit Share-the-Love.
Greetings, dear readers and Lady Jane’s Salon devotees.
Your co-founder Leanna Renee Hieber here, and I am so very thrilled to tell you about September 7th. I’ll be hosting a very special event, a launch party for my debut novel, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, a ghostly, Gothic Victorian Fantasy novel, first in the Strangely Beautiful series with Dorchester Publishing.
You will find charming atmosphere, a mysterious Strangely Beautiful drink special at the incredible Madame X price of $5.00, there will be a raffle for a special prize, and your hostess will be in full 1880’s garb in honour of her book’s setting.
You’ll also have the opportunity not only to hear two selections from The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker but fellow award winning author Isabo Kelly, one of my dearest friends and inspirations in this business, will be reading a selection from her work as well. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
This is a very special night for me, as this is a very special book. I hope you’ll join me, Isabo Kelly, the Lady Jane’s co-founders, a host of my friends coming from far and wide and the lovely and wonderful people at Dorchester Publishing for an evening of strangely beautiful delights.
For more information about The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, please visit www.leannareneehieber.com. All the usual Lady Jane’s Salon particulars are in effect, see you at Madame X on September 7th at 7pm!
Blessings!
Leanna Renee Hieber
Guest Author Johnny Diaz is blogging about his experience reading at Lady Jane’s Salon on his blog:
I didn’t know what to expect when I got the invite to read at Lady Jane’s Salon but the reading group’s name, its focus on romance, and the setting, the Madame X lounge in SoHo, intrigued me. I had to make the 224 mile drive from Boston to NYC and meet the Lady Janes. Last Monday night, I arrived at the Madame X lounge, the most colorful setting I ever had a reading in…Read more.
Visit www.beantowncubanito.blogspot.com for the full post and video featuring Johnny chatting about why gay men and woman enjoy the same kind of books.
Lady Jane’s Salon returns on Monday, July 6th with more splendid romance authors!
Debut historical author ANTHEA LAWSON will from her RITA nominated work Passionate
Award-winning local author DEE DAVIS will read from A Match Made On Madison
New York Times bestseller DIANA LOVE will read from Whispered Lies
SUSIE FELBER will pay tribute to her her mother, romance novelist EDITH LAYTON.
You already know the details, but here they are again for your convenience:
WHEN: Monday, July 6th, 7-9 PM
WHERE: Madame X, 94 Houston Street (btw LaGuardia and Thompson Streets), New York, NY 10012, 212.539.0808. Nearest subways: F,V,B,D at Lafayette, N, R at Prince Street.
Admission is $5.00 or one gently used romance novel. Proceeds to benefit Share The Love a nonprofit organization that provides gently used romance novels to groups helping women in transition, such as homeless or domestic violence shelters. Why? Because everyone deserves the pleasure of a good story and a happy ending. Co-sponsors: Share The Love and Ron Hogan of Beatrice.com. Cash bar.
Last night’s edition of Lady Jane’s Salon was a smashing success! We had an amazing line up of authors: Diane Gaston, Amanda McCabe, Wendy Corsi Staub, and Marjorie M Liu. Reviews of the readings are written up all over the web! Check out posts at Romance Novel TV, Maya Rodale’s not-so-secret online diary, and Kwana Writes. If you blogged about Lady Jane’s, please post the link in a comments. The more the merrier!
Oh, and some pictures, of course!
Diane Gaston
Amanda McCabe
Wendy Corsi Staub
Marjorie M Liu
We have an outstanding line up of four fantastic authors for this month’s meeting of Lady Jane’s Salon! Mark your calendars for Monday June 1st, because you don’t want to miss this!
1. Wendy Corsi Staub
2. Marjorie M Liu
3. Diane Gaston
4. Amanda McCabe
It gets even better: there are five dollar drinks and signed books to be had 
The details:
WHEN: Monday, June 1st. 7:00 – 10:00 pm.
WHERE: Madame X, 94 Houston Street (btw LaGuardia and Thompson Streets), New York, NY 10012, 212.539.0808. Nearest subways: F,V,B,D at Lafayette, N, R at Prince Street.
ADMISSION is $5.00 or one gently used romance novel. Cash bar. Proceeds to benefit Share The Love a nonprofit organization that provides gently used romance novels to groups helping women in transition, such as homeless or domestic violence shelters. Why? Because everyone deserves the pleasure of a good story and a happy ending.
Sponsored by Share The Love and Beatrice.com.
Join us this Monday May 4th for a lovely evening of romance reading with some very special authors!
Local NYC author J.S. Hawley will be reading, along with the authors of Operation L.O.VE.: Anne Elizabeth, Tara Nina, and C.H. Admirand.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each book of OPERATION: L.O.V.E. is donated to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation whose mission statement is “The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations people who die in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations people and their families.” This book debuts the new military anthology line for Highland Press.
As always, admission is five bucks or a gently-used romance novel to benefit Share The Love (which will be splitting the proceeds with Operation L.O.V.E this month!).
WHEN: Monday, May 4th. 7:00-9:00 pm.
WHERE: Madame X, 94 Houston Street (btw LaGuardia and Thompson Streets), New York, NY 10012, 212.539.0808, www.madamex.com. Nearest subways: F,V,B,D at Lafayette, N, R at Prince Street.
Lady Jane has some super special guests at the next salon so mark your calendars for Monday April 6th! The featured readers will be….
Alisa Sheckley aka Alisa Kwitney, author of The Better To Hold You.
Maya Rodale, author of The Rogue And The Rival, will read with the funny guy from last month’s salon.
Rob from Romantic Times will provide a musical interlude and our special hostess for the evening will be…
Sarah Wendell of the popular blog Smart Bitches Trashy Books and the author of Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide To Romance Novels.
Truly, this is not one to be missed!
The details…
WHEN: Monday, April 6th. 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm
WHERE: Madame X. 94 Houston Street (btw LaGuardia and Thompson) NY, NY 10012. 212-539-0808.
Admission is five dollars or one gently used romance novel to benefit Share The Love, a non-profit organization that provides romance novels to groups helping women in transition, such as homeless or domestic violence shelters. Why? Because everyone deserves the pleasure of a good story and a happy ending. Sponsored by Beatrice.Com and Share The Love.
Your Salon founders–Hope Tarr, Leanna Renee Hieber, Ron Hogan and Maya Rodale–hope to see you there!
