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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Writing Contest!Break Up the Winter Doldrums With A Contest from the Casablanca Authors and our Acquiring
Editor Deb Werksman!
Deb
will make her monthly visit to the Casablanca Authors' blog http://casablancaau thors.blogspot. com/ on Thursday, January 29.
The Casa Authors invite you to submit a 50-word pitch for your book in the comment section of Deb's blog. If we like
yours the best, Deb will request your full manuscript and provide feedback. Two runners up will be asked to submit a synopsis
to Deb. As an added extra, several of the Casa Authors have offered critiques of a first chapter and synopsis (up to 50
pages) to selected runners-up!
What is Deb Looking For? Single title
romance (series/trilogies too!) in all sub-genres: *paranormal *historical
*contemporary *romantic suspense *erotic romance
minimum
90,000 words, please
*a
heroine the reader can identify with *a
hero she can fall in love with *a world
is created *a "hook" Deb can use
to sell the book in 2-3 sentences
Contest Rules --The contest will
run from 12:01 a.m. on January 29
and end at noon on January 30.
All pitches must be entered into the comments section of Deb's blog by noon on Jan. 30. http://casablancaau thors.blogspot. com/ No pitches may be emailed to the blog, to individual authors or to Deb. Emailed pitches will be automatically
disqualified. --Please enter pitches ONLY for
finished, polished manuscripts that are at least 90,000 words in length. No works in progress please. --Winners will be announced on Saturday, February 14 on the Casablanca Authors blog. No individual messages
will be sent to winners. The winner and runners up have until 5 p.m. on Monday, February 16 to send the full manuscript/and or requested synopsis to Deb's
assistant Lisa Acosta at lisa.acosta@ sourcebooks. com. If the winning MS is not received by the deadline, a runner up will be chosen. Deb will respond within three to
four weeks. Critique runners up will be notified as to how to proceed. --Decisions of the judges (Deb, our publicist Danielle, and the Casa Authors) are final.
--Winning this contest does not in any way constitute
a guarantee of publication or further consideration by Sourcebooks Casablanca.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Cruising for Love
11:22 pm est
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Cheryl Brooks is the author of The Cat Star Chronicles.
This series of erotic science fiction novels explores the lives of the last of a race of feline lovers captured
in war and sold into slavery. Discover how the men of Zetith could make an entire galaxy of men jealous enough to
destroy their race. . . .
Welcome!
If
you love erotic romance with a touch of sci-fi, then this is the place to be!
Within the pages of The Cat Star Chronicles you'll find action, adventure, love, romance, laughter
and tears--and sex beyond your wildest dreams . .
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The Cat Star Chronicles#7, Virgin! Coming Spring 2011!
The Cat Star Chronicles #6, Hero! Coming in August
2010!
The Cat Star Chronicles #5: Fugitive! Available
now!
The Cat Star Chronicles #4: Outcast! Available now!
The Cat Star Chronicles: Rogue
If you thought one Zetithian lover was hot, wait until
you find out what it's like to have two of them!
The Cat Star Chronicles: Warrior
This hot new erotic romance is now available in bookstores
and online!
Sourcebooks Casablanca presents:
The Cat Star Chronicles: Slave
Now Available!
Combining science fiction, adventure, laughter, and erotic romance, Slave
will leave you breathless. . . .
"I found him in the slave market
on
Orpheseus
Prime, and even on such a
god-forsaken planet as that one, their
treatment of him seemed extreme."
HE MAY BE
THE LAST OF HIS SPECIES . . .
whose
sexual talents were the envy of the galaxy.
Even filthy, chained and beaten,
his feline gene gives him a special aura.
JACINTH IS ON A RESCUE MISSION
. . .
and she needs a man she can
trust
with her life
. . .
Enmeshed in a tangle of deception,
lust and love, they must elude
a race of violent killers and
together forge a
bond stronger than any chains.
