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Roxanne St Claire
Roxanne St. Claire is a bestselling, RITA-Award winning author of seventeen novels for Pocket Books, Silhouette Desire and HQN. She currently writes a popular romantic suspense series called �The Bullet Catchers� that features a cadre of elite, fearless bodyguards and security professionals. In addition to the RITA, eleven of her books have won major industry awards, including the RITA, the Daphne du Maurier, the HOLT Medallion, the Maggie, Booksellers Best, Book Buyers Best, several Awards of Excellence, the Aspen Gold and the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence. In addition, one of her novels, The Sins of His Past, was recently selected by Borders Group buyers as the 2007 overall �Borders Top Pick� in the Book Buyers contest.Her titles have been selected by Doubleday and Rhapsody Book Clubs as featured selections, and routinely reside on the Waldenbooks Top Ten lists, including two weeks at number one. In 2008, readers can look forward to the first �Bullet Catcher Trilogy� featuring three connected stories titled First You Run, Then You Hide and Now You Die.
Prior to launching a full time career as a romance novelist with her first release from Pocket Books in 2003, Roxanne spent nearly two decades as a marketing executive and public relations consultant. She is a graduate of UCLA and counts among her many accomplishments a brief acting career that included appearances on two classic television shows, and hosting one talk show. She lives in Florida, with her husband and two children. Visit her web site at www.roxannestclaire.com
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The Midlist. You know where that is, don't you? Technically, the midlist is the well-stuffed section of a publisher's catalog full of books written by authors who are neither debut nor bestsellers. For new writers of commercial genre fiction, most especially in romance, this is a clear and well-defined destination. No longer a newbie, a midlister has a decent, if not magnificent, print run. A midlist writer probably has a good agent, a fairly attentive editor, and a growing audience. Life in the midlist is fine - not the fanciest house on the street, but, heck, it is in an exclusive neighborhood. The lure of 'lead' is out there, the next destination, the next move up.
Romantic suspense is one of the hottest subgenres in the market today and shows no sign of slowing. The subgenre is broad and encompasses a lot of different styles of writing, and one of the first questions that new writers ask is what exactly qualifies as ‘romantic suspense?’
Recently, the Florida lotto was $85 million dollars. Did I buy a ticket? Yep. Ten of ‘em. Did I win? Nope. But someone did - someone who bought the ticket in the same town where I bought mine. A quick pick, no less. So close, I could almost smell the leather interior of my brand new Porsche, see how sharp my Manolo Blahniks would look leaning on the accelerator, hear the engines of my private jet revving up for a trip to Cannes. Did I mention the gorgeous pilot? All right. You get the idea. Somebody won. In my tiny burg of 6,000. How do you get that lucky?I know this feeling of envy and awe. I’ve had it before.
Something sent me to my old file drawer today; I was looking for an address of an agent for a friend, and I knew I’d queried that agent in the past. In my files, I pulled out a dog-eared, overstuffed, tear-stained file folder.I remember creating that file, when I sent out my initial three agent queries for my first manuscript. I’m a fairly organized person, but for some reason I didn’t take the time to type out a label. This file folder bears one Sharpie-squiggled word on the tab: QUERIES.
And in it, I shoved a heck of a lot of heartbreak. But that’s not all that’s in that folder. There’s something else between those tattered edges. Something magical, something elusive, something that begs to be shared.
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