Noted romance fiction blogger Sarah Wendell will share the spotlight with Nora Roberts and Roberts' guests Mary Burton, Mary Kay McComas, Donna Kauffman, Mary Alice Baumgardner and Michael Douglas Jones at the Turn the Page (TTP) Bookstore’s 2012 Valentine’s book signing. The event will take place from 12:00 p.m. through 2:00 p.m. on Feb. 18 at the bookstore’s 18 North Main Street address in Boonsboro, Md.
Wendell, along with Candy Tan, co-founded the romance novel review site, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. In 2009 Wendell and Tan jointly authored the nonfiction work Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels, which carries on its cover Nora Roberts’ evaluation of the book as "funny, irreverent, insightful, and thorough."
Wendell is also the author of a more recent assessment of romance fiction. Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels was published in October 2011. The attached YouTube video contains a clip from Wendell’s discussion of this book on the Oct. 10, 2011 Gayle King Show.
Mary Burton, Mary Kay McComas and Donna Kauffman have all participated in past signings at Turn the Page. Burton’s latest work, Before She Dies, is due out in paperback on Feb. 1, 2012, as is Kauffman’s Sweet Stuff. McComas’s What Happened to Hannah will be released on Feb. 7.
Children’s book author and illustrator Mary Alice Baumgardner and historical fiction writer Michael Douglas Jones are two local authors who will be signing at the Feb. 18 event. Baumgardner’s latest work is Esther Oyster's Irritation: A Story About Turning Hurt into Beauty (2009); Jones’s is the Civil War novella Union: The Courier Journals 1861-1865.
Nora Roberts’ readers are already looking eagerly to February 2012 for Celebrity in Death. This 43rd title in the In Death series which Roberts writes under her J.D. Robb pseudonym won’t be officially released until Feb. 21; however, copies will be available at Turn the Page for the Feb. 18 signing.
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