Since November 2009Author of the Week: Belinda Jones
Posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2009 by Leah
This weeks Author of the Week is Belinda Jones. Belinda is the author of 7 novels: Divas Las Vegas, I Love Capri, The California Club, The Paradise Room, Cafe Tropicana, The Love Academy and Out of the Blue. She is also the author of the non-fiction novel On The Road To Mr Right.
Belinda’s first job in journalism was on the Postman Pat comic. She went on to spend four years at “more!” magazine which included co-presenting the “Mr more! 94″ male model contest. After turning freelance she wrote for magazines including Elle, FHM, Cosmopolitan and For Women. In 1997 she moved to Los Angeles and in 2001 her first novel Divas Las Vegas was published to great success. She now lives in Las Vegas, but spends much of her time travelling to research her fabulous books (and to find men which you can read about in On The Road To Mr Right). (From fantasticfiction.co.uk)
My favourite Belinda Jones novel is Out of the Blue. My least favourite was The Love Academy and I didn’t even finish it, however I loved the cover for it. I haven’t read The Paradise Room or I Love Capri yet but I’ll be looking out for it. You can read my review for Out of the Blue here.
According to Belinda’s website she is currently working on/researching her eigth novel, apparently called Dancing Girls and is taking Cuban salsa lessons. Amazon.co.uk doesn’t have any information up yet but whenever it’s released I’ll be reading it.
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Veronica Henry, scriptwriter and author of Honeycote, Making Hay, Just A Family Affair, Wild Oats, An Eligible Bachelor and Love on the Rocks has a new novel out on 23rd July 2009 called Marriage and Other Games. The synopsis from amazon.co.uk reads:
Just when everything was going so well for Jenny and Mike, Roan Williams had to come back into their lives.
Thanks to my snooping around on authors sites I’ve come across Jessica Brody’s website and found the beautiful cover for her new novel, and the sequel to The Fidelity Files, Love Under Cover. It comes out in America in November however Amazon.co.uk has it coming out in the UK in October, October 1st to be precise. Amazon.co.uk also has it titled differently as The Good Girls Guide to Bad Men so the cover on the right could just be the American cover. Until Amazon.co.uk put up a British cover then this is the one I’ll use. If another - different - cover crops up, I’ll post it as soon as I see it. I like this cover, simple and efficient. The synopsis from Jessica Brody’s website reads:
I went to the book swop today and picked up three books. The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton by Catherine Alliott, Love The One You’re With by Emily Giffin and He Loves Me Not… He Loves Me by Claudia Carroll. I have loads - loads- of books in my to-read pile so I’ll get round to those new ones when I get around to them.
A book I missed in my April Releases post was Clare Dowling’s new novel Just The Three of Us. It came out on April 2nd in Hardcover and will be out in Paperback in November. The blurb from Amazon reads:
Bee Bearhorn had a number-one hit single in 1985 – and was never heard of again. Fifteen years later she is found dead in her flat and nobody seems to care … 
