Listen to our newest Radio Show for your chance to win a paperback copy of The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter! Gena was a really good sport. You can hear her take on her new series Lords of the Underworld and learn some of the deep secrets we managed to pry from her. :goteam:

To hear the interview and learn how you can enter the contest for a chance to win go to:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ravenradio and click May 14, 2008’s show. Or, go to the direct link here!

Shows will also be archived later this week and sent to our subscribers at: http://ravenpodcasts.podomatic.com/

ONE WINNER WILL BE DRAWN AT RANDOM AND ANNOUNCED ON NEXT WEEK’S RADIO SHOW. TO ENTER, EMAIL YOU ANSWER TO OUR ON AIR QUESTION TO: ravenradio@ravenhappyhour.com

And, afterwards, check out Author Talk, a hilarious interview series by Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe. I highly recommend the Kresley Cole Interview. To give you a hint, Gena does interpretive dance.

Check out Sensual!I’m helping to spread the word about the newly redesigned website Sensual. If you like your romance novels on the steamy side, you’ll love this site. It’s full of reviews, interviews, excerpts, information on the newest print and ebooks and lots more. You can even win books and other goodies. So check it out. http://sensual.ecataromance.com
Authors, you can spread the word too! If you’d like a chance to win one of 20 Cover Ads and get a shot at a fabulous grand prize (a 3 Pack of their huge billboard ads - a $100 value!) just repost this blurb on your blog or website. Then stop by Sensual and leave a link to your post. All authors are eligible to enter and win so why in the world wouldn’t you? See their site for more information and official rules: sensual.ecataromance.com/?p=688I’ll see you at Sensual!

WANTED – Places to guest blog in next couple of months (interviews, newsletters, articles, ect)

Mandy and I are looking to guest blog, interview, newsletters, articles, ect… in June to promote Raven Radio (mentioned in RT magazine—yeah!!! lol, sorry, still get giddy about it) moving to its evening schedule and some upcoming releases. If you have guest blog spots open in the next couple of months either as a joint blog or separate ones or both, please email me at michelle_pillow AT yahoo.com with what you’d like from us—length, topic, guidelines, ect.

Also looking to trade book mentions—we post your blurb, you post ours type of thing.

For those of you looking to guest blog with us, check out our blogs (everyone welcome):
www.ravenhappyhour.com/ravenblog - paranormal topics
www.michellepillow.com/blog - any topic
www.mandyroth.com/blog - marketing topics

 

BANNER EXCHANGE –
We’re looking for anyone wanting to do banner or link trades.. If we’re not already exchanging links, email us.
michelle_pillow AT yahoo.com – for michellepillow.com
mandy AT mandyroth.com – for mandyroth.com

 

RAVEN CONTESTS –
If you have extra print books that you’d like to donate to Raven Radio Contests along with some bookmarks, we’ll take them. (BTW, if you’d rather snail mail your print books out directly, we can do that too) The books will be mentioned on the radio, the blogs, ect. Contests normally go for 1-2 weeks and we just pick books at random out of the pile. At this time we’re only looking for print books. Not because we don’t love ebook donations, but because we’ll put calls for ebooks as needed and authors tend to email them out directly to the winners.  ravenradio AT ravenhappyhour.com

WANT OUR PROMO ITEMS?
Email michelle_pillow AT yahoo.com your address, when you need them and how many you’d like and what they’re for (just so we don’t repeat events). I’ll be happy to mail you Mandy and my bookmarks/business cards, along with any other authors I have on hand.

I think that’s everything. We’re always looking for new promo op, so if you got ideas, email me. We’ll be happy to trade the advertising.

Thanks!
Michelle & Mandy

Michelle M Pillow
www.michellepillow.com

Mandy M Roth
www.mandyroth.com

Beverly Rae
Beverly’s witty, sexy, romantic, action-packed stories leave readers experiencing a whole range of emotions. As a multi-published author, Beverly is always working on her next book, taking the “usual” and twisting it into the “unusual.”

TOUCH ME
When Sloan Janson’s best friend suddenly gets married after being matched by Cally, he is convinced his friend is the victim of a con and determined to expose her as a fraud. Yet the minute he meets her, he wants to expose her but in a totally different way! Cally is tempted, but terrified─she’s always known matchmakers can’t have love without losing their gift. Her worst fears come true when her ability deserts her. If she cuts Sloan out of her life, she’s sure it will return. But is that a choice she can bear to make? Read more

Paranormal authors Mandy M Roth and Michelle M Pillow talk books, industry, paranormal, and take reader calls.

Michelle M Pillow and Mandy M Roth talk with author Gena Showalter about books and the paranormal.

Wed May 14, 2008
11am –12pm EST

Listener dial-in number during LIVE shows
(646) 595-3998 (New York number, long distance charges apply)

There is also a LIVE chat during the shows. Follow the link below and look for CHAT LIVE buttons! You can type your questions or comments in there during the chat and we’ll ask/answer them on air!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ravenradio

Wed, May 14th, Bestselling author Gena Showalter joins on Raven Radio, LIVE to talk about her Lords of the Underworld series. Listen LIVE 11AM-12PMListener dial-in number during LIVE shows
(646) 595-3998 (New York number, long distance charges apply)

There is also a LIVE chat during the shows. Follow the link below and look for CHAT LIVE buttons! You can type your questions or comments in there during the chat and we’ll ask/answer them on air!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ravenradio

Gena Showalter sold her first book at the age of 27 and now, four years later, is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thirteen books, with eleven more on the way in a thrilling blend of genres: breathtaking paranormal and contemporary romances, cutting edge young adult novels, and stunning urban fantasy.

Her novels have appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine, MTV, Seventeen Magazine, and have been translated in French, Italian and Korean.

~~~~ CONTEST~~~~~

Call in to talk to Gena LIVE or show up in the LIVE chat to talk with her (ask questions, give a shout out to her) and be entered to win a paperback copy of The Darkest Night! Raven Radio will send one lucky winner a copy!

My two upcoming Virgin Books/Random House releases are now on sale at Amazon.com. You can pre-order them at a discount.

Recipe for Disaster

Coming in Trade Paperback, June 10, 2008!

Aspiring chef, Zoe Matthews has lost her job and all hopes of a satisfying future. If that wasn’t bad enough, she’s just publicly shot down her one and only chance at culinary redemption. Restaurant mogul, Jackson Levy is determined to teach the rude city-slicker a lesson in manners. What she thinks will be a head chef position at one of his fancy restaurants turns out to be a small town diner. Can this city girl and a country boy find common ground? Or is this just a recipe for disaster?

PREORDER RECIPE FOR DISASTER

Degrees of Passion

Coming in Trade Paperback, November 25, 2008!

The second college student Sasha Matthews spotted Trevor Kingston she knew it was fate. He’s everything a girl could want—handsome, charming, rich. With student loans piling up and no clear idea what she wants to do with her future, he’s the best thing she has going. But, Mr Perfect’s façade begins to crumble when she sees him photographed with another woman in the newspaper’s society pages.

Breaking up with her high society boyfriend, a distraught Sasha finds comfort in the arms of moody, hard working Kevin Merchant whose cuteness is overshadowed by his know-it-all attitude. One drunken night of passion is hardly the start of a relationship and when Trevor wants her back the choice seems clear.

In order to graduate Sasha must participate in an important internship. But, she’s paired with the very guy she’s swore never to see again. Forced to work alongside Kevin, long hours in the lab turn into tempting nights of seduction. Should she deny what’s between them and await the return of her ideal boyfriend,or will life teach her lessons this professional student never expected to learn?

PREORDER DEGREES OF PASSION

As promised, here’s a pic of the new bullies. Two girls and a boy. They’re so cute. I’ll try to get more pictures of them up soon!

I’m so excited! They’re coming out with a new Indiana Jones movie!!!

I love historical novels and recently read an author that debuted this year with Avon, Anna Campbell. I really enjoyed the darker twist to her regency romance, Claiming the Courtesan.

Blurb:

He would marry her, and possess her in every way possible.

The Duke of Kylemore knows her as Soraya, London’s most celebrated courtesan. Men fight duels to spend an hour in her company. And only he comes close to taming her. Flying in the face of society, he decides to make her his bride; then, she vanishes, seemingly into thin air.

Dire circumstances have forced Verity Ashton to barter her innocence and change her name for the sake of her family. But Kylemore destroys her plans for a respectable life when he discovers her safe haven. He kidnaps her, sweeping her away to his isolated hunting lodge in Scotland, where he vows to bend her to his will.

There he seduces her anew. Verity spends night after night in his bed… and though she still plans her escape, she knows she can never flee the unexpected, unwelcome love for the proud, powerful lover who claims her both body and soul.