New Releases
1. Betting the Farm (April 7, 2012)
After her father's funeral, Elly has come back to the family farm to pack up the heirlooms and arrange for the sale of the property. What starts as a lonely night turns into something more when a thunderstorm brings a beautiful stranger to her door... (Buy it here.)2. "Wishful Thinking", a story in the Bandit Creek anthology FOOL'S GOLD. (April 1, 2012)
CeeCee tells Ruth about her past, but how truthful is she? (Buy it here.)3. Prohibited Passion: A Bandit Creek Historical (January 15, 2012)
During Prohibition, a pastor's daughter in a small town meets a taxi dancer from Chicago. She falls in love, but a woman like that is going to be trouble... (Buy it here.)
Upcoming Releases
1. "Vee", a story in the charity erotica anthology FELT TIPS. (12-12-12)
What I’m Working On
1. THE ORPHEUS
A novel set in 1920s Chicago.On Submission
1. THE PARIS GAME
A torch singer at a jazz club past its prime desperately needs to pay off a debt she owes to the club owner, a vicious gangster. She makes a wager with her ex, a wealthy art dealer and cynical businessman, who wants her back in his bed. The target of their wager is a young woman already in love with a bartender at the club. If her ex can’t succeed in seducing this young woman, he’s sworn to pay her debt, but if he succeeds, she’ll submit to his every desire.The Author’s Red Room Indie Publishing Services
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Harold Pinter: Various Voices (Harold Pinter)
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Simone de Beauvoir)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
La Batarde (Violette Leduc)What I’ve Read Recently
Kissed in Paris (Juliette Sobanet) Kissing Adrien (Siri Mitchell)
On Writing (Stephen King)
The Tattooed Duke (Maya Rodale)
Sin in the Second City (Karen Abbott)
Dark Soul, Vols. 1-5 (Aleksandr Voinov)
The Passion (Jeanette Winterson)
Unraveled (Courtney Milan)
The Price of Temptation (Lecia Cornwall)
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
Icebound (Julie Rowe)
The Lords of the North (Bernard Cornwell)
Stay the Night (Scarlett Parrish)
Ruth (Elizabeth Gaskell)
North & South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
Fair Game (Josh Lanyon)
Men of the Mean Streets (Bold Strokes Books anthology)
13 rue Therese (Elena Mauli Shapiro)
Too French and Too Deadly (Henry Kane)
Fatal Consequences (Marie Force)
A Pirate's Possession (Michelle Beattie)
In a Lonely Place (Dorothy B Hughes)
Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
Portrait of Seduction (Carrie Lofty)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Jussi Adler-Olsen)
The Mysterious Lady Law (Robert Appleton)
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter (Antonia Fraser)
The Witching Hour (Anne Rice)
Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger)What I’m Listening To
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The Crow (Original Soundtrack)
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
Anne Calvi
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Seigmen: Radiowaves
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Savoy: Lackluster Me
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The Unabashed Francophile Post, Part 6: Musée d’Orsay
I went to Paris to go to the Musée d’Orsay. Okay, so I went for a few other things as well (food, coffee, Shakespeare & Co. …), but the Musée d’Orsay was first on my list for museums. Though the … Continue reading
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Musings of a Writer and Unabashed Francophile, by Alyssa Linn Palmer 