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July Salon Recap and August at Lady Jane’s

Hope — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:39:33 +0000

The July 6th Lady Jane’s Salon saw a fabulous turn out despite the steamy temperatures and holiday weekend. In addition to co-hosting two great guest authors, Dianna Love and Colby Hodge, and our very special guest, PW book blogger Barbara Vey, I got to be a guest myself! Please check out my videotaped reading from The Tutor.

The August Salon welcomes three great guest authors: Anna DePalo, Erica Ridley, and Alaya Dawn Johnson.

Guest authors books will be available for purchase on site.

Lady Jane’s meets at Madame X (94 West Houston) on the first Monday of every month, 7-9 PM. Cash bar. Admission is $5 or one gently-used paperback romance novel with net proceeds supporting local women’s charities.

THE TUTOR and More July 5th Salon Goodness

Hope — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:33:06 +0000

Salon Co-Founder, Hope Tarr. Photo by BizUrban.com.

I’m so excited to be reading The Tutor, my latest Harlequin Blaze release at the July 5th Lady Jane’s Salon.

Set in Victorian Scotland–corsets and kilts, oh my!–The Tutor picks up where Untamed, the finale to my Men of Roxbury House trilogy, left off. Lady Bea Lindsey, Kate’s “bratty” baby sister, is all grown up, a “modern” young woman who knows her own mind. Alas, Bea has gotten herself engaged to a very nice but very dull gentleman. A dry run of the wedding night has shown that if she wants any pleasure in her marriage bed, she’s going to have to take the reins. But first she needs a tutor, someone sufficiently trustworthy, knowledgeable, and yes, sensual to instruct her in the loving arts.

Enter Ralph Sylvester, a former East London street rogue turned semi-respectable private secretary. Ralph and Bea have been friends for nine months but so far the sexual tension simmering between them has remained buried beneath the surface. Bea is an earl’s daughter as well as Ralph’s best friend’s sister-in-law. But when she shows up at his bedchamber door post-midnight wearing a red velvet cape and nothing beneath, Ralph knows that, lady or not, she means business. If he had any doubts, her bold request cinches it.

“I wish for you to tutor me in…sex.”

Having lusted after Bea for nine long months, no way is Ralph going to turn her down. Repeat: no way. Only instead of agreeing to tutor her for one paltry night, he insists on a full week of very private lessons. For seven sexy days and nights, no pleasure will be forbidden, no desire too shocking.

It’s every man’s fantasy…until the student surpasses the teacher.

The July 5th Lady Jane’s promises to be a jam-packed evening of fun. Along with Yours Truly, we have three great guest authors: Toni McGee Causey, Dianna Love (returning to the Salon), and Colby Hodge AKA Cindy Holby . Otherwise, same time, same place: 7-9 PM at Madame X. Admission is $5 or one gently-used paperback romance novel with net proceeds supporting an end-of-year donation to a New York City women’s charity.

As always, we’ll have the authors books available for purchase and signing on site, including Maya Rodale’s late June release, A Groom of One’s Own.

Happy Independence Day,

Hope

A Very Special Winter Holiday Salon

Hope — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:52:07 +0000

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.

Romance fiction reviewer, bookseller, and author, Stacey Agdern will get the holiday ball rolling by reading from her Hanukkah novella. Stacey’s reviews regularly appear in Romantic Times BOOKReviews Magazine and Barbara Vey’s “Beyond Her Book” Publisher’s Weekly blog and we’re honored and excited to have her debut her work at the Salon.

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.