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Join our wild, chatty days filled with great book talk and prizes.
We hope you'll find a 'new to you' author's work to enjoy. With
over 2000 members in this book club, almost anything can happen
- so don't miss it! Get to know the books and the Authors. We
talk about ALL Romance, so be prepared for high volume messages
at times, including surprise contests that will make you smile.
(Warning: Language is pg13 within the group, but the books we
discuss range from inspirational to erotic).
Join us here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RomanceJunkiesReaders/
Check Back here for more Book Talk Wild Themes coming up this
year!
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Staff Pick Jessica Andersen joins us June
11-13, 2008
Romance Junkies reviewers and the RJR Book Club volunteer staff
choose a few books each year as Staff Picks. Staff Picks are
books that have captivated more than one staff member and we're
quite excited to share Nightkeepers by Jessica Andersen with
you. We've invited her to spend three days with us so you can
get to know her better.
In addition to the Yahoo group chat, we're also having a 'live'
chat on June 11th in RJ's chat room, so there's something for
everyone! Jessica has donated some terrific prizes to be won,
so mark your calendar to be here June 11th -13th!
Take part in the discussion and enter the contests for a chance
to win a prize. Visit Jessica Andersen's site to find out more
about this exciting series, grab your own copy of Nightkeepers,
and get ready to rock this place for three days!
Nightkeepers by Jessica Andersen
Website: http://www.jessicaandersen.com/
Releasing from Signet Eclipse on June 3, 2008
ISBN-10: 045122437X
ISBN-13: 978-0451224378
Buy from Amazon or your favorite book store!
The ancient Mayan Long Count calendar ends on December 21, 2012.
On that day, the sun, moon and earth will align at the galactic
center, in a conjunction that some scientists predict could
trigger cataclysmic upheavals (sun spots, magnetic reversals,
etc.). The NOVELS OF THE FINAL PROPHECY tell of the ancient
Mayan myths that come to life in the last four years before
12/21/2012, and their opposition by the Nightkeepers, descendants
of an ancient magic-wielding race sworn to protect mankind from
the apocalypse.
In NIGHTKEEPERS, the last king of the magi is forced to team
up with a Miami-Dade narcotics detective in order to reunite
his scattered warriors and fight the gods of the Mayan underworld.
Wielding ancestral magic based on bloodletting and sex, the
king will have to choose between his duty and his love for the
human woman who is the gods' destined sacrifice.
Read an excerpt:
http://www.jessicaandersen.com/extras/nightkeepers-exerpt/
"Ms. Andersen possesses true brilliance because in her
world building, I forgot mine for the twelve hours it took for
me to finish NIGHTKEEPERS." Natasha Smith ~ Romance Junkies
~Read the full review HERE
More about Jessica Andersen...
I was born and raised in eastern Mass (go, Sox!), and have lived
my whole life in New England. I did the public school thing,
surviving the 80s with no lasting scars aside from a few photos
of me with spiked hair and a rat tail (and no, I'm so not posting
those). During the 90s, I did a double stint at Tufts University
for an undergraduate biology degree and a PhD in genetics, with
a year-long break in between that can best be described as:
"I don't know what I want to be when I grow up; I think
I'll do some landscaping"... followed by "um, okay;
I think I'll go back to school now."
During grad school and for a year after, I worked at the New
England Eye Center, helping search for the genetic changes responsible
for certain types of glaucoma. It was very cool work, but the
writing aspect of science suited me far better than the labwork.
It wasn't until the committee head complimented my doctoral
thesis by saying it "read like a mystery novel" that
I admitted I was... um... writing a romantic suspense novel
in my free time. A year later, I left the lab and spent the
next while freelancing as a scientific editor and riding instructor
while I worked on getting my writing career off the ground.
Released in October of '03, my first Harlequin Intrigue, Dr.
Bodyguard, was an RT Top Pick and kicked off a long string of
largely science-themed romantic intrigues that have hit the
category bestseller lists and been nominated for Reviewers'
Choice and RITA awards. While writing the Intrigues, I kept
honing my craft and submitting new ideas, hoping to make the
jump from category to single title success.
I love learning about new things and rediscovering old interests-
that's the researcher in me, I suppose. So one day while I was
working on a story idea, I came across a reference to pre-Columbian
serpent worship, had an ‘ooh, shiny!' moment, and followed
where the information flow led me... straight to a mention of
the Mayan Long Count calendar, and how it's slated to end on
December 21, 2012... close to a thousand years after the fall
of the Mayan Empire.
The Maya have always been a particular interest of mine, and
I'd been to most of the major Yucatan sites as a kid... let's
just say the pyramid at Chichen Itza made a huge impression.
How could it not? And the more I looked into the 2012 doomsday
prophecy, the more the Nightkeepers' story started clicking
in my brain- less like I was crafting it, and more like it had
been there all along, waiting for me to discover the Nightkeepers
and how important they're going to become over the next few
years as the Long Count draws to a close and the Mayan calendar
reaches the zero date... at which point there will be no more
time to count. Game Over.
Or is it?? Stick around, and we'll find out together as the
stories unfold.
HAPPY READING AND DISCUSSION!
Dorine - RJ Book Club Co-Coordinator
http://www.romancejunkies.com/
