Sourcebooks Casablanca Romance Authors

Please welcome fellow Sourcebooks fiction author Megan Mulry, whose latest in her Unruly Royal women’s fiction series, R is for Rebel , is now in stores! Hello and Goodbye Well, hello Casablanca Authors! Thanks so much for having my Landmark Author self over to your digs to celebrate the publication of R IS FOR REBEL! This is the fourth and final book in the Unruly Royals series and—as many of you know from having written a series (serieses?)—it can be a triumphant and bittersweet moment when the last book is released. I’ve loved getting to know my characters and seeing how screwed up I could make them—they’re so much more deserving of their HEA that way, don’t you think?—but now it’s time to say bon voyage to the last of my little chicks and let them leave the nest. My characters also have a tendency to run screaming from the building the first time they realize they’re falling in love (and Abigail in R IS FOR REBEL is no exception), so I thought it’d be fun to ...

Please give a warm welcome to New York Times , USA Today and RWA RITA Finalist Susanna Kearsley! Susanna’s latest North American release, The Shadowy Horses , has just hit stores this month. Hi, everyone! It’s so great to be back here with all of you to celebrate the re-issue of my book The Shadowy Horses , with a Scottish hero who’ll feel right at home with a few of the Highlanders here, although being from the Borders he speaks Scots, not Gaelic, and is more at home wielding a trowel than a broadsword. Archaeologist David Fortune is one of my favorite creations, and because he comes from the small east-coast fishing village of Eyemouth, where the Scots language is still spoken, my efforts to learn a few phrases and words for myself led to several fun scenes between Davy and heroine Verity Grey, who comes north to take part in a dig for a lost Roman legion, and finds a lot more than she bargained for. Here’s an excerpt from one of those scenes, in which Verity lea...

As a publicist, there are parts of the book process that I have no part in—acquisitions meetings, copyediting and proofreading, page corrections… but I’ll be honest, all of those things make my head spin. However, I’ve ALWAYS been interesting in the whole cover process. I love getting called into a cover meeting and give my opinion—“I like that color and that image, but it should be cropped”—like I’m secretly an art director or something. So when our senior managing editor asked me if I wanted to go on a photo shoot, I said yes without hesitation! One snowy Friday morning, I made my way to the studio of Izui Photography, Inc. , and met our great photographer, Dick Izui! I was surprised how professional everything was—no matter that people were half-naked and barely knew one another in passionate poses. A few of the models hadn’t done romance covers before, so it was a pretty cool learning experience for everyone. Between the photographer and his assistants, the models, the w...

By Deb Werksman Editorial Manager Sourcebooks Casablanca Post the first two paragraphs of your manuscript anytime today--up until midnight--and I will post my critique by next Friday. Here is what I need from you: Title Sub-Genre (Romance & Women's Fiction ONLY) One Sentence Pitch of Book First Two Paragraphs Looking forward to reading your openings!

Please give a warm Casa welcome to International Bestselling women’s fiction (and fellow Sourcebooks) author, Jill Mansell —who has something to gripe about… Hello, I'm going to go off-topic and have a grumble about the T word! Last week I was clearing out the spare room and came across a screenplay I'd written 15 years ago. Now, nothing ever came of it but I absolutely loved writing it at the time and thought the premise was the most interesting I'd ever come up with. Basically, when I'm working on a book I always think it's dreadful, but I thought my screenplay was by far the best thing I'd ever written. So when I found it again, I was thrilled. Surely all I had to do now was give it a few tweaks, make it even better, then I could start sending it out again! And, of course, start choosing my Oscars dress... So I sat down to read my magnificent screenplay and realised within the space of a few minutes that it was never going to happen, thanks to the thing I...

What a time of year! Not only did Fire Me come out this month, but two of my kids "came out" of college. That's right, two kids graduated at the same time. They're not twins. One entered college a year early and the other took five years to finish a challenging major (electrical engineering coupled with Air Force ROTC training). It's been a big month of changes in this household as these two chicks of mine launch themselves into the world (or try to -- my daughter is looking for a job in this bleak economy!). So it's only natural that my thoughts focus on changes and transitions, and the curves in the road that make it difficult to see what's up ahead. All writers have to grapple with unpredictability, though. This business is filled with tales of authors whose multiple-book careers trickle to a stop when the market shifts or publishers shutter their doors. I know several authors who are in the process of rethinking their writing direction because change...