Last night a group of romance writers, readers and industry professionals gathered at Madame X in downtown NYC for Lady Jane’s Salon. Founded by romance authors Maya Rodale, Hope Tarr, Leanna Renee Hieber and blogger Ron Hogan, Lady Jane’s Salon is Manhattan’s first romance reading series.
This month, Lady Jane’s featured Kathryn Smith and Mari Mancusi. Unfortunately, Kathryn Smith was unable to attend, but one of Lady Jane’s co-founders, Leanna Renee Hieber, author of The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, performed an engaging (to say the least, I think many of us were howling with laughter!) reading from Kathryn Smith’s latest, When Seducing a Duke. She read from Chapter 3. I highly recommend purchasing a copy and then you shall see why we could not stop laughing. And, as an added bonus, we also learned a new vocabulary word! Again you must buy the book to learn more.
Next up was Mari Mancusi, author of The Blood Coven Vampires series. If you enjoy a great vampire read (and who doesn’t these days?), add the recently re-released Boys That Bite, the first in the series, to your TBR pile. The selection Mari read offered humor and numerous twists, making her vampire world truly unique and quite fun.
I hope to see more NYC writers and readers at the next Lady Jane’s event on November 2nd! The admission fee of one gently used romance novel or $5.00 benefits a great cause, Share the Love. Co-founded by Lady Jane’s Maya Rodale, Share the Love donates romance novels to non-profit, non-denominational organizations devoted to helping women live independent, self-sufficient lives.
I recently volunteered some of my time and energy to help Maya find additional organizations in the Hudson Valley to receive donations and to drop off books at locations around the city. I saw first hand how much these shelters, domestic violence safe houses, and community outreach centers appreciate the donations. If you know of an organization in your New York neighborhood that provides assistance to women in transitional periods of their lives and might benefit from Share The Love, please contact Maya at info@share-the-love.org or email me at sarah@sarahtormey.com.
Oh, I’m so sad we had to miss it! But thankfully this is my last week at work!! So, I plan to be at all of them going forward…except maybe January…I’m not sure Madam X is equipped for baby deliveries
Wonderful post, Sarah! Both those books have peeked my interest, so I’ll definitely be picking them up. It’s the perfect time for a vampire read…just as soon as I finish with Miss Percy Parker
Hope to see you soon!
Jerrica
I saw you from across the room waved but didn’t get over. So sorry. It was such a good time once again. I was thrilled to be out.
You are so good to get involved.