Author Tina Gerow/Cassie Ryan

Imaginarians,please help if you can, even it's just to repost this on your blogs, websites, etc. Tina/Cassie is a great, great person and I love her books.

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Please help:

Tina Gerow/Cassie Ryan has been taken suddenly and seriously ill. She has an affliction called Arteriovenous malformation or AVM in her brain which has led to multiple surgeries and an extended stay in ICU. No family is ever prepared for such a thing and Tina's is no exception. In times like this, every dollar helps and her friends in the writing community are banding together to ask you to open your hearts (and wallets) to help get Tina's family through this.

Tina is well known to readers and authors across the country who have embraced her books, most recently, (writing as Cassie Ryan) Seducing the Succubus (Berkley/October 2010) and coming in April 2011, The Demon and the Succubus.

Please send your prayers, positive energy and love out into the universe with Tina's name on it. Cards can be mailed to: Tina Gerow, c/o SBP PO BOX 42255, Phoenix, AZ 85080.
Any donations you would like to make to Tina Gerow/Cassie Ryan to help with the burden of mounting medical bills, can be given by visiting this site or by sending a check to Tina Gerow, c/o SBP PO BOX 42255, Phoenix, AZ 85080.

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Save the Contemporary: Hot Finish by Erin McCarthy

Since I am a writer and a huge reader of romance in all its forms, I love it when I come across anything that helps promote the genre as a whole as well as all the myriad sub-genres within. Smart Bitches, Trashy Books and Dear Author are two sites absolutely dedicated to promoting the romance genre. Sarah Wendell and Jane Little from these two sites have teamed up and created Save the Contemporary to try and bring more exposure to contemporary romances. The contemporary is a classic form of romance, an iconic subgenre that launched the romance industry we know and love today. My first romance ever was a contemporary and I want to do my part by helping get the word out about an extraordinary genre and some of the truly excellent authors who write these stories.

Hot Finish is a wicked cool tale by Erin McCarthy. Book 3 in the awesome Fast Track series, it centers on Ryder and Suzanne. They were married after a whirlwhind courtship and divorced soon after. For years they have struggled with the issues surrounding their breakup and now they have reached a crossroads, realizing they may not be so divorced after all. The talk is this book brings it all: humor, sex and a great story. I for one have put it on my reading list.

Since we are talking about contemporary romances, I thought I'd share some of my favorite authors in the genre.

Victoria Dahl: Start Me Up and Talk Me Down are simply spectacular.

Sloane Taylor: Sultry in Sweden and Finnish Fantasies are great stories I've read over and over

Julie James: Something About You and Practice Makes Perfect are two true gems.

Julie Ortolon: Don't Tempt Me and Lead Me On always put me in a good mood.

What about you all out there? Come on over and tell me about your favorite contemporary romance authors and stories.