Jade Lee | FRESH FICTION PUBLISHING!!!! Or maybe not...

Has Sara Reyes started a book publishing wing of Fresh Fiction?

A. Absolutely. It’s been going on behind the scenes for years.

B. Who told you that? It’s supposed to be a secret!

C. Never, ever, ever. Fresh Fiction is a community that loves books but doesn’t want to write them. Or publish them. Or fight with amazon.com. ::shudder::

D. Only in fiction does Sara Reyes become the queen of book publishing!

Answer: C. As far as I’m aware, Fresh Fiction has no intention of ever becoming a book publisher. However, when I needed the name of a spunky, up and coming book publisher, I grabbed for their name because I love Fresh Fiction. I didn’t go so far as to name the head of my fictional publisher Sara because my character is older, tired, and desperate to retire. Thankfully, Sara is none of those things. She’s young and vital and will never ever leave her computer because I’ve chained her to it!

What the hell am I talking about?

A. A book I wrote as Kathy Lyons.

B. A weird thing I pictured when thinking about writing something sometime about publishing.

C. It’s a Kathy Lyons thing. Jade Lee (who is writing this blog) has no freaking idea what is going on and she likes it that way.

D. It’s a novella that is part of a continuity.

Answer: D Entangled Publishing is doing a continuity about a publishing conference in Vegas. It’s a series of novellas written by different authors all set at an event very much like the Romantic Times Book Review convention. In fact, in Gina Maxwell’s series launch book TEMPTING HER BEST FRIEND, she has a character Trent who mirrors the real life Trent who works on the RT convention and gave her permission to use his name.

I wrote book two–THE MAKEOVER MISTAKE–about a hot hero who has to go undercover as a Vegas lounge act except he can’t sing or dance or play an instrument. Hilarity ensues as he tries to investigate a crime against our heroine, play a magic piano, and fight his burning attraction to Thea, editor extraordinaire at Fresh Fiction Publishing. (It’s not really a magic piano. It’s just rigged.)

So now it’s your turn. Tell me what wild and wacky things you’d like see Fresh Fiction do in the fictional future. Or just say hi and that you could totally see Sara singing “Born to be Wild” in front of everyone who’s anyone in publishing.

And I should be spanked for not casting her as the heroine.

Giveaway

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About THE MAKEOVER MISTAKE

In Vegas, nothing is what it seems...

After losing a bet, successful publisher Michael Chang is "pretending" to play the piano in a Vegas lounge in order to spy on his less-than-trustworthy employee. His espionage is quickly derailed after meeting Thea Danelle, an editor who's been wronged by Michael's company. She's smart and unpredictable…and clearly hiding a naughty side that tempts Michael to distraction.

Thea has gone from frumpy librarian to the young, wild thing she used to be--all thanks to the promise of sensuous delight in the piano player's eyes. And frankly, after losing yet another author to the competition, Thea is ready to forget her professional problems and explore those sexy promises thoroughly. With Michael, she can finally be herself...until the moment Thea learns who he really is.