USA Today bestselling author Kathryn Smith will be reading from her latest historical release, When Seducing A Duke.

Award-winning YA author Mari Mancusi will be showcasing her Blood Coven Series Rerelease (just in time for Halloween!).

The details:

WHEN: Monday, October 5^th , 7-9 PM; monthly meet-ups to follow on the first Monday of every month

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.

As always, signed books are for sale  and proceeds from the evening benefit Share The Love.

Delilah Marvelle, Anna DePalo, and Johnny Diaz. That’s right–a boy!

Best of all? This month, we are waiving admission. So re-read your old romances once more and spend five bucks on a drink at the bar. Come September, we’ll be back to collecting books and bucks for Share The Love.

WHEN: Monday, August 3, 7-9 PM; monthly meet-ups to follow on the first Monday of every month.

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.

Last night, I moseyed on down to Madame X for the July edition of Lady Jane’s Salon.  This reading series has quickly become a must-not miss event here in New York.  It’s hard to believe that no one came up with the idea of hosting a romance reading series in New York until this year! What were we thinking? No matter, thanks to founders Hope Tarr, Ron Hogan, Leanna Renee Hieber and Maya Rodale, Lady Jane’s is here to stay. The wonderful thing about the Lady Jane’s Salon reading series is not only is it a great way to catch up with friends, and also networking, but it also gives the readers a chance to give back by donating gently used books to Share the Love.

Ron Hogan was a delightful comprere for the evening’s festivities. This month’s event was very special because Susie Felber, the daughter of the author Edith Layton who passed away recently, gave a wonderfully funny and touching speech about her mother.  I didn’t think it was possible to laugh and cry at the same time! I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a run on Edith Layton on Amazon.com today after hearing Susie’s memorial to her mother last night.

The next reader was RWA NYC‘s own Dee Davis (who was our author of the year at last year’s Golden Apple Awards).  Dee read from her book A Match Made on Madison.  If you watch Millionaire Matchmaker on Bravo, or are a big fan of Sex and the City, you will love this book.  After a brief pause so that we could refresh our drinks (I’m a big fan of the Indecent Proposal), we had two authors whose work I was unfamilliar with, but I can’t wait to read their books, Anthea Lawson and Diana Love.

Again, another fantabulous evening at Lady Jane’s.  If you are in New York the first Monday of the month, you cannot miss this event.

Visit Elizabeth at www.scandalouswoman.blogspot.com or at the next Salon on Monday, August 3rd.

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.

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.

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.

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!