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A HARLEQUIN CHRISTMAS CAROL & December Lady Jane's Salon

On Monday, December 6th, I'll be reading from Tomorrow's Destiny in A HARLEQUIN CHRISTMAS CAROL at Lady Jane's Salon. Joining me will be Jacquie D'Alessandro, also reading from A HARLEQUIN CHRISTMAS CAROL, and Lauren Willig.

Salon hours: 7-9 PM at Madame X. Admission is $5 or one gently used paperback romance novel, with proceeds to support an end-of-year donation to a NYC women's charity. Authors' books will be available for sale and signing on site.

For a sneak peak into the behind-the-scenes for A HARLEQUIN CHRISTMAS CAROL, check out my interview with Morgan Doremus of RT BOOK Reviews.

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Cooking Up the Love

Thanksgiving is mere calendar days away, perhaps not much of a revelation and yet amazing to me all the same. The day after, November 26th also known as Black Friday in the retail word, officially opens the winter holiday shopping season. The prospect of standing in long lines in overheated stores can bring out the "Bah! Humbug!" in even the most cheerful of hearts.
Enter the antidote. The Snap4Kids "Celebrity" Cookbook, The Heart of Cooking , offers holiday shoppers more than 170 recipes from 130 authors including Yours Truly compiled into an attractive keepsake cookbook at $12.50/each ordered online. Proceeds support Snap4Kids, a 501c(3) assisting families of children with special needs, especially the physically challenged, in helping their child reach his/her maximum potential through information, referral, education, and modest grants for medical and therapeutic equipment, not covered by health insurance or in the case of no health insurance, throughout the United States, from birth to age 22.
Good eats for a good cause. And my recipe contribution, reduced fat artichoke gift, is heart-healthy, too!
Happy Thanksgiving,
Hope

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Happy Release Day!

My Victorian Christmas novella, Tomorrow's Destiny in A Harlequin Christmas Carol officially releases today, November 9th! Though copies have been showing up in selected online retail stores and brick-and-mortar bookstores for the past week, I'm so happy to be able to officially announce the anthology in plenty of time for the winter holidays. And I have plenty of celebrating planned, so please visit my Media & Events page for information on my winter holiday Blog Tour–first whistle stop is RT BOOK Reviews Blog on 11-12–and in-person appearances. The latter include my December 6th reading and signing at Lady Jane's Salon.

Some readers got the  ball rolling even earlier by entering my monthly contest and reading the online excerpt from Tomorrow's Destiny. Congratulations to Theresa D of Monticello, NY, my current contest winner. Like many of you who entered, Theresa knew that in Tomorrow's Destiny, my heroine, Fiona's birthday is December 25th. Poor Fiona! It's hard to keep up the Scrooge act when you're a Christmas baby. Here at HopeTarr.com, even a whisper of "Bah! Humbug!" is strictly forbidden. In keeping with the holiday celebration theme, Theresa's prize is a signed copy of my Scottish Christmas historical, Twelve Nights.

Hope signing at last December's Lady Jane's Salon.

My new contest opens today and the prize will once again be Twelve Nights, so if you haven't yet read Alys and Callum's sexy Christmas love story, take two ticks and enter.

Wishing you a holiday season brimming with mistletoe moments,

Hope

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November 1st Lady Jane's Salon

Joining us as guests for tonight's Lady Jane's Salon are the following four fabo authors: Stella Price, Terence Taylor, Allie Boniface, and Sarah MacLean. Bonus: we'll be raffling off two copies of Lauren Willig's Christmas release, The Mischief of the Mistletoe.

The Salon meets at 7-9 PM chez Madame X. Admission is $5 or one gently used romance novels, net proceeds and books to support NYC women's charities. Cash bar.

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Contest Winner!

Okay, I'll admit it. Sometimes life…make that Life gets away from me, if not a lot than certainly more often than I'd like. September was one of those months. What with promoting my Beer Gardens NYC iPhone app, Lady Jane's Salon (October's Salon was awesome!) and prepping for the release of Tomorrow's Destiny in A HARLEQUIN CHRISTMAS CAROL a mere 30 days wasn't nearly enough.

Consider the above as the preamble to a confession. I forgot to pick a contest winner for September. My bad–literally!

In the spirit of "better late than never," belated but sincere congratulations to Marie E of Lathrop, CA, the winner of my September contest prize: a signed copy of my previous Christmas Scottish historical romance, Twelve Nights. As did many of you who entered, Marie correctly answered that in Tomorrow's Destiny/A Harlequin Christmas Carol, my heroine Fiona's eyes are green and blue.

For those who didn't win, I hope you'll take two two ticks to read the Sneak Peek of Tomorrow's Destiny/A HARLEQUIN CHRISTMAS CAROL (due out November 10th) and enter my current contest. But lest we rush the holidays, for now…

Happy Halloween Weekend!

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Tonight at Lady Jane's Salon…

Tonight, at the October 4th Lady Jane's…

Salon co-founder Leanna Renee Hieber will read from the next installment in her Strangely Beautiful saga, A Christmas Carroll, featured in A MIDWINTER FANTASY anthology.

We also welcome fabulous guest authors Janet Mullany, Donna Hill, and Sabrina Jeffries, as well as special guest Salon Emcee, Publishers Weekly's Barbara Vey.

7-9 PM chez Madame X (94 W Houston Street). Admission is $5 or one gently-used ppb romance novel, net proceeds to support NYC women's charities. Guest authors books available for sale and signing on site.

Read the rest of the story at the Lady Jane's Salon blog site.

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Beer Gardens NYC or How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Beer Gardens NYC, my first ever iPhone App, the fruit of my summer stay-cation, went live earlier this month at the iTunes App Store, and I am positively thrilled by the response.

The App is a collaboration with my real life Prince Charming, Raj Moorjani. For five consecutive summer weekends, Raj and I braved soaring summer temperatures and the boos and hisses of booze-soaked World Cup watchers to visit 50 beer gardens across the city's boroughs.

Selected venues received our soon-to-be...

September Lady Jane's Salon

The September Lady Jane's Salon will take place on our usual first Monday of the month which happens to be the 6th…Labor Day!

We're proud to host four great guest authors: Rebecca Rogers Maher, Cat Johnson, Cecilia Tan, and Michele Lang. Take two ticks, head over to the Lady Jane's web site, and read Michele's post on the thrills and chills of anticipating her Lady Jane's reading. And, if you can, join us live on Monday, September 6th, 7-9 PM, at Madame X (94 W Houston Street). We'll be...

Up Close and…In the Flesh

Hope reading at In the Flesh.

I may write the naughty bits, I do write them, but never ever do I read Those Parts aloud. Until last night, that is.

Last night I slipped on my stilettos and stepped out of my comfort zone to read at "In the Flesh," New York City's premiere monthly erotica reading series hosted by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Orgasmic, Fast Girls, Please, Sir).

Fittingly, the group meets at Happy Ending Lounge (302 Broome Street) in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The bar, housed in a...

East Hampton Library Authors Night

Hope signs THE TUTOR at the East Hampton Library Authors Night, August 14, 2010

On Saturday I participated in the East Hampton Library's fifth annual Authors Night, a fundraiser for the library and its programs.

The weather was sublime, more like early spring than late summer. Seated beneath a massive tent set on the library lawn with the more than 150 other participating authors, I sipped wine and nibbled on tuna roll and sesame chicken, and of course signed copies of The Tutor.

Throughout I...