SSG in the Wild

Release Day was splendid. I met some friends and former coworkers for lunch at Ben’s Chili Bowl (a D.C. landmark) dropped by the National Zoo to enjoy the sunshine, the flowers, and the adorable baby animals, received a great review for Under the Rose from Booklist (details to come), and went to see my book on the shelves.

I think the people at my local bookstore have stopped giving me funny looks when I snap pictures of their shelves.

Here’s Secret Society Girl at the front table of my local Borders:
Two books to the left is Curtis Sittenfeld’s most recent title, Man of My Dreams, which sports a very different cover from the hardback. I think I like the new cover much better. The colors and the pile of men’s shirts seem much more inviting to me than the frog prince.

Speaking of frog princes, I had my eye out for Shanna Swendson’s new release, Damsel Under Stress, as well as Jennifer Estep’s debut Karma Girl, but I couldn’t find either of them. The computer said they were in transit, so I’ll check back tomorrow (though they also said my book was in transit).

However, I did see some other great new books:

That’s Deidre Knight’s newest “Midnight Warrior (aka Parallel series) book, Parallel Seduction face out in the romance section. I swear, Deidre is blessed by the cover gods; they just keep getting yummier and yummier. I haven’t read this book yet, but it features Scott, the hybrid alien warrior with a chip on his shoulder and Hope, the half-blind linguist who captured his heart (and ours) in Parallel Heat.

Over here we have my friend Roxanne St. Claire’s newest Bullet Catcher title, Take Me Tonight. (I might as well have titled these pictures: book on Diana’s TBR pile, since I have both of them!) I have to say that the premise of this novel scares me to death. It’s about an investigation website where you can order a “fantasy kidnapping” with disastrous results. This is definitely a book I’m not going to read late at night or when Sailor Boy is not around to protect me. then again, she does delicious heroes, too…

And, just for fun, I found Secrets, volume 9, and pulled it face out to show SB:

Who’s that sassy minx and why does she want that poor man’s tie? 😉

And what happened to his shirt? Questions, questions…

finally, I haven’t seen this yet, but I can’t be the only one wild to get my hands on a copy of Evil Genius, by Catherine Jinks. I’ve been salivating about this book since I first heard the blurb for it on Publisher’s Marketplace. It’s about a young supervillain at an evil genius school who is trying to figure out a way to become a good guy. Her article on Backstory this week was fascinating, and if that’s not enough, the special website for the “World Domination” school her main character is sent to is the icing on the (evil) cake. How awesome is that?