Denver is hosting Left Coast Crime this year, and ITW Debut Authors and advisors are getting ready for "Murder onthe Rocks!"

CJ Lyons, already a star in the Centennial state from her keynote speaker gig at the Rocky Mountain Fiction

Writers' Conference, will be launching LIFELINES at LCC. CJ's signing schedule includes two events on March 5^th--a 5 PM signing at Denver's Murder by the Book, and a 7 PM launch at High Crimes in Boulder--and a March 6^th signing at the famous Tattered Cover bookstore in the historic LoDo section of Denver.

At the conference itself, CJ will be participating in a "Writers on Writing" segment with a class on how to write thrillers Thursday afternoon (12:30-1:15); moderating a hardboiled panel on Friday morning (8:30-9:15), and talking about the art of the thriller on Friday afternoon (3:45-4:30) with fellow ITW members Jeff Buick, Laura Caldwell, Linda Richards and Theresa Schwegel.

September 18 - 21, 2008
Meijer Book Tour 2008 - Five Cities in Michigan


Jordan Dane will be one of the featured authors for a book tour of Meijer Supercenters in Michigan hosted by Levy Entertainment. The tour will spotlight "lead title" authors for all the major publishing houses. The highly promoted event with its huge book signings will cover 9 stores and 5 cities--including Detroit, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and Lansing. The tour begins Thursday, September 18 and will end at the last store in Detroit on Sunday, September 21 at 6:00 pm. Stay tuned for more details, and be sure to check out Jordan's website for an updated schedule!

Karen Dionne was interviewed recently for an article in the February issue of Writer’s Digest Magazine on environmental thrillers.

“With topics like global warming headlining the nightly news,” WD editor Jordan Rosenfeld writes, “the eco-thriller is heating up, scaring readers with a dose of ‘what if’ reality. Thriller writers draw from plausible terrors, even if these are enhanced with fantastic leaps. So it makes sense to those in the publishing industry that, just as novels about Sept. 11 began to surge into the market a few years after, the eco-thriller is on the rise because so much attention is being paid to climatic change.”

Karen’s debut novel, FREEZING POINT, is set in the Antarctic, where extremists plot to stop an energy company from melting icebergs into drinking water, neither realizing that the water is contaminated with an unknown deadly disease.

“One of the things that makes eco-thrillers so compelling,” the article quotes her as saying, “is that the earth is our home. If the environment turns on us, there’s no safe place.”

You can read the entire article online at Writer’s Digest’s website.

A big congratulations is in order for ITW Debut Author liaison, CJ Lyons: she is featured as a New and Notableauthor on Celebwire this month!  She joins fellow ITW members Brett Battles and Heather Graham, who have all contributed short stories available for download.

Lyons' short story, TOXICITY, is a prequel to her debut medical suspense novel, LIFELINES (Berkley, March 2008), which has earned rave reviews (four an a half stars) and has been selected as a TOP PICK by Romantic Times:

"Pittsburgh's Angel of Mercy Hospital comes brilliantly alive in Lyons ' debut novel. This enthralling medical mystery offers an intimate view of the personal and professional lives of its characters. It's a winner."

To read TOXICITY, visit Celebwire. For more information on CJ Lyons, please visit her website. While you're web surfing, be sure to stop by the ITW Debut Program Page: The Thrill Begins, or say hello on Crimespace or MySpace.

Denver is hosting Left Coast Crime this year, and ITW Debut Authors and advisors are getting ready for "Murder onthe Rocks!"

CJ Lyons, already a star in the Centennial state from her keynote speaker gig at the Rocky Mountain Fiction

Writers' Conference, will be launching LIFELINES at LCC. CJ's signing schedule includes two events on March 5^th--a 5 PM signing at Denver's Murder by the Book, and a 7 PM launch at High Crimes in Boulder--and a March 6^th signing at the famous Tattered Cover bookstore in the historic LoDo section of Denver.

At the conference itself, CJ will be participating in a "Writers on Writing" segment with a class on how to write thrillers Thursday afternoon (12:30-1:15); moderating a hardboiled panel on Friday morning (8:30-9:15), and talking about the art of the thriller on Friday afternoon (3:45-4:30) with fellow ITW members Jeff Buick, Laura Caldwell, Linda Richards and Theresa Schwegel.

September 18 - 21, 2008
Meijer Book Tour 2008 - Five Cities in Michigan


Jordan Dane will be one of the featured authors for a book tour of Meijer Supercenters in Michigan hosted by Levy Entertainment. The tour will spotlight "lead title" authors for all the major publishing houses. The highly promoted event with its huge book signings will cover 9 stores and 5 cities--including Detroit, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and Lansing. The tour begins Thursday, September 18 and will end at the last store in Detroit on Sunday, September 21 at 6:00 pm. Stay tuned for more details, and be sure to check out Jordan's website for an updated schedule!

Karen Dionne was interviewed recently for an article in the February issue of Writer’s Digest Magazine on environmental thrillers.

“With topics like global warming headlining the nightly news,” WD editor Jordan Rosenfeld writes, “the eco-thriller is heating up, scaring readers with a dose of ‘what if’ reality. Thriller writers draw from plausible terrors, even if these are enhanced with fantastic leaps. So it makes sense to those in the publishing industry that, just as novels about Sept. 11 began to surge into the market a few years after, the eco-thriller is on the rise because so much attention is being paid to climatic change.”

Karen’s debut novel, FREEZING POINT, is set in the Antarctic, where extremists plot to stop an energy company from melting icebergs into drinking water, neither realizing that the water is contaminated with an unknown deadly disease.

“One of the things that makes eco-thrillers so compelling,” the article quotes her as saying, “is that the earth is our home. If the environment turns on us, there’s no safe place.”

You can read the entire article online at Writer’s Digest’s website.

A big congratulations is in order for ITW Debut Author liaison, CJ Lyons: she is featured as a New and Notableauthor on Celebwire this month!  She joins fellow ITW members Brett Battles and Heather Graham, who have all contributed short stories available for download.

Lyons' short story, TOXICITY, is a prequel to her debut medical suspense novel, LIFELINES (Berkley, March 2008), which has earned rave reviews (four an a half stars) and has been selected as a TOP PICK by Romantic Times:

"Pittsburgh's Angel of Mercy Hospital comes brilliantly alive in Lyons ' debut novel. This enthralling medical mystery offers an intimate view of the personal and professional lives of its characters. It's a winner."

To read TOXICITY, visit Celebwire. For more information on CJ Lyons, please visit her website. While you're web surfing, be sure to stop by the ITW Debut Program Page: The Thrill Begins, or say hello on Crimespace or MySpace.