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Thursday, October 27, 2005
First DEEP COVER review!
And it's a good one -- but hey, the book's a good one, so how could the review be any less? (No modesty here, huh? I worked way too hard to be modest now!)Anyway, read on for Harriet Klausner's take on Deep Cover:
She knew him as William Davis, a man who rescued her from rape in the back
streets of Ocho Rios in Jamaica. After he killed the man who tried to rape fourteen year old Selena McCaffrey, he took her back to the United States and introduced her as his “niece”. She later finds out that he is living a dual identity. In his other life as Henry Daniels he is the chief of police. Whenever he took a job as a chief of police Henry’s alter ego established himself as the area’s most powerful drug lord.
He sends Selena to Oklahoma to kill a police officer who is getting too close to unmasking his identity. Instead of killing him Selena falls in love with Tony and becomes a key witness for the FBI. They want her to take down William’s organization because he is brain dead although he is hooked up to monitors. They want her to work from the inside the organization and gather enough evidence to arrest the main players. If she refuses, they threaten her with jail time or deportation so she accepts their offer knowing in advance that people who want to control William’s empire will try to kill her. She has to hope the FBI and her own street smarts are enough to keep her alive so she can have a future with Tony.
In DEEP COVER, there are the obvious villains and the not so obvious ones. The latter make this action packed, dynamite thriller a winner because the heroine (and the reader) doesn’t know who to trust. Selena gets the answer to her heritage but the price is quite high and her lover Tony works overtime to protect her from enemies that seem to come out of the woodwork especially family she has never met or knew existed. Rachel Butler gives Janet Evanovich a turn for her money with this fantastic crime thriller in which double crosses are the norm.
How cool is that? Thanks a bunch, Ms. Klausner!!
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
I'm back!!!
I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted here. My life has been too busy the past couple months -- I really need a vacation!I worked on my chapter's unpublished contest through much of the summer -- Romance Writers Ink, best chapter in RWA! Where the Magic Begins, best contest in RWA! Years ago I used to enter contests without ever giving a thought to the people who run them. Now that I've helped run both published and unpublished contests, all I can say is WOW! This is one tough job. Due to circumstances beyond our control,
Practically everyone we dealt with, entrants and judges alike, was wonderful, though there was the occasional whiny entrant ("My judges' comments were worthless!" -- translates to "judges didn't like my entry, so they're obviously stupid.") And there was one really stinky judge -- an editor with a NY publishing house -- my lips are sealed as to her name, but she's definitely on our Never F*cking Again list.
And isn't this a hoot? After Liz and I knocked ourselves out getting this contest wrapped up in only about six weeks, we started hearing about all the other contests that take 4-6 months!! Slackers!
Then came our chapter's conference, for which I was chair. Cimarron Dreamin' -- best conference in RWA!! It was too much fun. My editor, Caitlin Alexander, was there. She's a doll, though far too young to be so talented. We had some great speakers and met some great people.
Now . . . I can breathe. Get my life back to normal. Write again. And blog again! How cool is that?
