October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

Hope Tarr

24 comments posted.

Re: The Tutor (4:20pm July 23, 2010):

Congratulations to my blog contest winner, Mary Lynn. Mary Lynn, I'll be snail mailing your copy of VANQUISHED...anon, which is to say on Monday. ;)

To everyone who commented, thanks so very much for the lovely comments and all 'round generous support. Last but not least...

TGIF!

Re: The Tutor (6:10pm July 22, 2010):

Cool, Ivy, I hope you enjoy 'em. :)

Re: The Tutor (6:10pm July 22, 2010):

Hi Cecilia, Thanks for the nice blessing. I'll take it and gladly! Re entering, you're entering automatically when you post a comment, so you should be all set.

Re: The Tutor (2:32pm July 22, 2010):

Fortunately, Valerie, you don't have to choose. God be willing, you have decades and decades and decades (and more decades) to have seven sexy days and nights. Goodness, by the time you're my age, you'll be worn to a nub--a very happy nub, tho. Think Smiley Face. :)

Re: The Tutor (2:30pm July 22, 2010):

Hi Vickie! As they say, never say never. ((wink))

Re: The Tutor (2:28pm July 22, 2010):

Per Darci's comment, last week I saw some poor, resigned looking young man trolling the NYC streets wearing one of those advertorial sandwich boards in the midst of the 95 degrees plus heat. He was promoting a new wine shop that had just opened. The slogan:

"Sex is better with wine."

Of course sex without wine works too, but I thought it was great.

Re: The Tutor (2:26pm July 22, 2010):

LOL, Darci, doesn't *everything* go well with chocolate and wine? Note: not really a question.

Re: The Tutor (2:24pm July 22, 2010):

Julie, that's so sweet! I love it when married folk say stuffs like that.

Re: The Tutor (2:23pm July 22, 2010):

At the risk of coming off as coy, Patricia, you'll have to read the book and find out. ;)

Re: The Tutor (2:34am July 22, 2010):

Thanks, Gladys. Here's hoping. Honestly, I wouldn't want to be 21 again but as for those seven sexy days n' nights, well, they're not limited to any age. I'll take 'em. :)

Re: The Tutor (11:28pm July 21, 2010):

Good thinking, Pam. They don't call it "cross training" for nothing. ;)

That's the spirit, Teresa. Take one for the team.

Brenda, I say make like the Nike ads and "Just Do IT." ;)

Kai, the best of all compliments. Thank you!

Re: The Tutor (7:50pm July 21, 2010):

Sounds like a sound plan, Barbara. A bird in hand and all that. :)

Re: The Tutor (7:47pm July 21, 2010):

I heartily agree about the better to have loved and lost... I've always erred on the side of not regretting what I *didn't" do, and Bea's choice reflects that. Fortunately THE TUTOR is a romance novel, so without giving up any spoilers, it ends HAPPILY. :)

Re: The Tutor (3:38pm July 21, 2010):

Good luck, MJ.

Re: The Tutor (3:37pm July 21, 2010):

Thanks, Lise. What a lovely thing to say. I really love the Victorian period, particularly the latter part--1880's/90's when so much of the landscape of life was changing, not only technologically but socially.

Re: The Tutor (3:35pm July 21, 2010):

Well, Colleen, as they say, I tries. I've always written steamy but a few of my friends who've read THE TUTOR were a little shocked, so I'm not sure if it's so much a departure as it is an evolution. For sure I couldn't have gotten a romance publisher for it back in '99 when I first sold.

Re: The Tutor (3:33pm July 21, 2010):

"Wicked works wonders..." Sabine, I am totally stealing this. ;) Good last name, btw.

Re: The Tutor (3:32pm July 21, 2010):

Thanks, Tanya. I think sex breaks sound like a good idea for sure. I always loved TV shows like "Hart to Hart" where the husband and wife teamed up to solve mysteries and crimes or as spies. Keeps the sexual tension high.

Re: The Tutor (3:30pm July 21, 2010):

Too funny, Erin, and too true. I actually read, okay, skimmed, the text translated by Sir Richard Burton (not the late actor);). Some of it is pretty dry and there's a lot of advice that's not particularly sexual but more on how to live. And of course, it was written for men. But then those other parts...;)

Re: The Tutor (11:43am July 21, 2010):

Thanks, Joanne. I must admit, I had quite a good time writing THE TUTOR. I hope you enjoy it. It's meant to be a fun, sexy, fast read with enough Victoriana and Scottish stuffs to satisfy history buffs. :)

Re: The Tutor (11:41am July 21, 2010):

LOL, Pat. I believe I'd soldier on, too.

Re: The Tutor (11:40am July 21, 2010):

Oh, Mary Lynn! Sounds like you have the premise for a romantic comedy if nothing else. And hopefully the rest of the honeymoon made up for it. ;)

Re: The Tutor (11:39am July 21, 2010):

Yadira, that's genius. Sexy fortune cookies would be so cool. Usually I get ones that tell me I should work harder, be more patient blah blah blah. All of that's probably true, OK definitely true, but not nearly so much fun.

Re: The Tutor (11:37am July 21, 2010):

Good morning, everyone. Thanks so much for stopping by with such sweet cyber hellos. I'll be checking in throughout the day, so any questions about THE TUTOR, or my reissues with Carina Press, MY LORD JACK and A ROGUE'S PLEASURE, fire away! :)