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Excerpt: Holding Mercy by Lori Armstrong (Love is Murder blog tour)

Excerpt: Holding Mercy by Lori Armstrong (Love is Murder blog tour)

If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting! Love is Murder'is a soon-to-be-released romantic suspense anthology edited by'New York Times'bestselling author Sandra Brown. This collection features 30 of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing...

Excerpt: Backfire by Catherine Coulter, Thrillerfest VII attendee

Excerpt: Backfire by Catherine Coulter, Thrillerfest VII attendee

In honour of the upcoming Thrillerfest VII, to be held in New York from'July 11-14, RIASS is lucky enough to have snagged an exclusive excerpt from Catherine Coulters latest novel Backfire. Catherine is the author of 68 novels, including 60'New York Times'bestsellers, and has written in both the romance and suspense thriller genres. Read on for a sneak...

Guest post and excerpt: An American Family by Peter Lefcourt

Guest post and excerpt: An American Family by Peter Lefcourt

I was recently sent a copy of Peter Lefcourts An American Family to review, and was lucky enough to be asked to be a part of Peters blog tour to promote the book. My review will follow later today, but in the meantime, you can learn a little more about the book from the excerpt and guest post below. 'Excerpt from An American Family After working...

Guest Post: Linda Lael Miller on her favourite character from her new romance series

Guest Post: Linda Lael Miller on her favourite character from her new romance series

Linda Lael Miller needs little introduction: shes a'New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than a hundred novels under her beltand many of them involving two of my guilty pleasures: Texas and cowboys. RIASS is lucky enough to be participating in a blog tour for Linda Lael Millers forthcoming books'Big Sky Country'and...

Guest Post: Carole Wilkinson on writing outside ones culture

Guest Post: Carole Wilkinson on writing outside one's culture

Carole Wilkinson is an award-winning author of books for children, and is perhaps best known for her acclaimed Dragonkeeper series. The fourth book in the series, Blood Brothers, has recently been released by Walker Books, and as part of her blog tour to promote the book, Carole was kind enough to visit RIASS to share her thoughts on writing about a foreign...

Excerpt and Guest Post: Diane Chamberlain, author of The Good Father

Excerpt and Guest Post: Diane Chamberlain, author of The Good Father

With more than twenty novels under her belt, Diane Chamberlain seems as though shes spent her entire working life as an author. However, this isnt actually the case: for many years Dianes focus was on social work, completing her postgraduate studies in the field and going on to work as a hospital social worker before beginning a private...