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Edwards’ Novel: ‘a perfect 10’
According to a recent review by Romance Reviews Today, Louisa Edwards’ second Recipe for Love novel—On the Steamy Side—is: “a solid effort from an amazing storyteller and worthy of a Perfect 10.”
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
Louisa on Recipe4Romance
Louisa shares a family recipe and her views on what makes for a romantic dinner at Recipe4Romance—drop by to share your ideas of the perfect romantic dinner.
RT Booklovers Convention Bound?
Come Make Cocktails with Louisa Edwards
One of the highlights of the 2010 RT Booklovers Convention will be a day dedicated to women’s fiction, including a session on making sexy cocktails with culinary romance author Louisa Edwards.
Louisa will give a how-to on making the sizzling drinks featured in her acclaimed Recipe for Love series—including The Miranda Cocktail that launched Book 1—while also exploring the food-love connection that has made her novels so popular with romance lovers and foodies alike.
Attendees will also get the inside dish on her new Recipe for Love trilogy for St. Martin’s, while sipping on a Miranda Cocktail and pocketing some of Edwards’ renowned culinary swag.
You can attend the 2010 Women’s Fiction Day at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, May 1, for $95, which includes the RT Book Fair, the SOS Military Mixer and Louisa’s event, as well as “Sweet Tea with Sherryl Woods,” “Knight on Kindle with Deidre Knight” and “Regency Bingo with Jane Austen & Sabrina Jeffries.”
The day is free with conference registration (conference runs April 28-May 2), but you must have a ticket to attend individual Women’s Fiction events. Deadline for reserving tickets or registering is April 15 at (281) 471-1077.
Meet Louisa in NYC . . .
or Plano!
Louisa and her new Recipe for Love novel, On the Steamy Side, will be on the bill Monday, March 1, at Lady Jane’s Salon in Greenwich Village. The monthly romance reading series kicks off at 7 p.m. at Madame X, 94 W. Houston Street, New York City, NY. Regular admission is $5 (or one gently used romance novel).
Then on March 16, Louisa invites readers to Legacy books for an appearance-fit-for-a-foodie. Louisa will serve up a specialty drink from her series and sign copies of On the Steamy Side and Can’t Stand the Heat at 7p.m. in the bookstore café at 7300 Dallas Parkway, Plano, Texas.
Taking Off from “Spring Fever”: Free Read 2
My first Free Read, “Spring Fever,” was so well received, that it just seemed fitting with a new book out this week to send another little thank-you gift to all the readers of my Recipe for Love series. So let’s return to Market, where love is simmering between Violet the tough pastry chef and Jonathan the sexy organic farmer in my next Free Read installment, “Too Hot to Handle!”—you can even download the story in a darling pdf format at Borders.
Free Read 2
Rhapsody Book Club Taps Novel
Rhapsody Book Club has selected On the Steamy Side, Book 2 in Louisa’s Recipe for Love series, as a Featured Alternate Selection. The novel will be released March 2 by St. Martin’s Paperbacks.
Reviewer Warms to Miranda
JoyfullyReviewed.com had this to say about Louisa’s debut Recipe for Love novel: “With well written characters not afraid to be flawed, Louisa Edwards has penned an enjoyable contemporary romance with Can’t Stand the Heat.”
Reviewers Recognize Can’t Stand the Heat
Reviewers at Romance Junkies have tapped Can’t Stand the Heat as a Blue Ribbon Favorite for December 2009. The reviewers’ list of top reads for the month—including Louisa’s culinary romance—are posted at RomanceJunkies.com.
Fresh Fiction’s October Fresh Pick ...
Can’t Stand the Heat was chosen as the 2009 October Fresh Pick at the reader website FreshFiction.com.
Here’s My First: Free Read
To give you a taste of what the Recipe for Love series is all about, here’s a little amuse bouche to wake up your palate and introduce you to the fast-paced, vibrant, Manhattan culinary scene my characters inhabit. Explore the Union Square Greenmarket, soak up the sunshine, have a couple of fresh strawberries, and enjoy this scene between a jaded, cynical pastry chef and the organic farmer who thinks she’s sweeter than the first breath of spring. Click here to read the original short story, “Spring Fever.”
Free Read
Sue Grimshaw Weighs In
Borders romance expert Sue Grimshaw features Can’t Stand the Heat in her September Must Reads!
Read the Latest Review
The verdict on Can’t Stand the Heat is in from veteran Library Journal reviewer Kristin Ramsdell, and here’s what she had to say: “Exceptional culinary detail and page-singeing sexual chemistry combine with a fascinating group of characters to produce a sophisticated modern romance that ties into the current foodie craze.”
Recipe for Love #2 Due
Spring 2010
In Spring 2010, I’ll return to Adam Temple’s Market restaurant
and a cast of old and new characters in
On the Steamy Side.
The release month is: March.
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