Breaking NewsOct 10, 2012 - "Silver Bella" will be released as a stand alone eBook on Dec 4th, 2012. "Not Just the Greek's Wife" is on Nielson Bookscan again and Lucy Monroe is #36 on Amazon's list of 100 Top Selling Contemporary Romance Authors. Oct 5, 2012 - "Not Just the Greek's Wife" has already spent TWO weeks on Nielson Bookscan and has been in the Top 100 Nook sales and Top 100 Contemporary Romance sales for Nook and Amazon. Sept 8, 2012 - "Dragon's Moon" has been given a starred review by Publisher's Weekly and has received numerous glowing reviews as well as very positive reader reaction. Sept 3, 2012 - "Dragon's Moon" is on Amazon's Top 100 for 3-for-1 Romance novels. August 1, 2012 - "Heart of a Desert Warrior" has been selected as a Book of the Month for M&B Australia and is featured on Mills & Boon TV. July 31, 2012 - "Heart of a Desert Warrior" spent several weeks on Nielson's Bookscan national bestseller list. July 2, 2012 - "Heart of a Desert Warrior" is in Nook's Top 100 for Romance and Kindle's Top 100 for Contemporary Romance and 3 of Amazon's overall Top 15 Selling Harlequin Presents (including the #1 spot) are Lucy Monroe titles, with "Heart of a Desert Warrior" being one of them. July 1, 2012 - There is a new interview with Lucy up on The Reading Room. June 27, 2012 - "Heart of a Desert Warrior" is on Nielson Bookscan's Top 100 Selling Romances (nationwide). June 26, 2012 - Lucy Monroe's first ever Reader Fitness Challenge was a huge success, with 72 entrants, 9 author coaches and 1 coordinator (Lucy) in the challenge. 52 actively participated to lose a combined weight of 655 lbs! June 1, 2012 - Lucy has been invited to participate in a May 2013 anthology with 3 NYT Bestselling authors, Lora Leigh, Alyssa Day and Meljean Brook. "Ecstasy Under the Moon" is set in her Children of the Moon universe. Older News: Lucy celebrated the anniversary of her seventh year of publication with the release of her 50th title, Close Quarters, in September. Lucy is now a USA Today bestselling author, with both her titles The Shy Bride and The Greek’s Pregnant Lover hitting the list, as well as spending multiple weeks on Nielson Bookscan national bestseller list and the Border's Group national bestseller's list (peaking at #1). Close Quarters will be a featured alternate selection for Rhapsody and Doubleday book clubs. Advanced reviews are in for Moon Craving, and they are good (4 Stars from RT)! Lucy's doing more than the happy dance. :) Moon Craving was featured in B&N.com's monthly romance column by Eloisa James and Lucy was a Featured Author on B&N.com Feb 8-12. Lucy hired the fabulously talented up and coming hip-hop artist Image and multi-genre producer BBk to create a soundtrack for Watch Over Me. Go to the Contest & Fun Stuff page for links to download the music FREE. This is Lucy's gift to her readers in celebration of her 45th book! The Latin Lover was the #1 bestseller on eBooks and #3 bestseller for Harlequin.com as well as being #5 on the Borders Group Top 10 Romance and listed on Nielson Bookscan's national bestsellers lists. To celebrate its release, Lucy is giving away *5* prize packages on her blog this week. Watch Over Me is Lucy's 45th release and she's saying thank you to her readers with a special contest and extra giveaways on her blog. Valentinos's Love Child is Lucy's 20th full length Harlequin Presents and was the #1 Bestseller on the Borders Group National Bestseller's List. Housekeeper to the Millionaire was nominated by Romantic Times for Best Harlequin Presents of 2008. This is the third year in a row one of Lucy's books has been nominated by RT for their "Best Of" awards and she's pretty excited. Lucy has signed another contract with Kensington Brava for two more Goddard Project series books and is currenlty working on Moon Craving, the follow-on book to Moon Awakening. The Spy Who Wants Me is on the Nielson Bookscan bestsellers list and Amazon's Contemporary Romance bestsellers list! Meagan's Chance and the new Mercernary Trilogy book trailers are the #1 viewed trailers for COS Productions on two public video sites! Housekeeper to the Millionaire spent three weeks on Border's Group Top 10 Series Romance Bestsellers List, reaching #1 it's third week. It is also the No. 1 selling Harlequin Presents at Amazon.com and on Nielson Bookscan Bestsellers list. Meagan's Chance won the 2008 EPPIE for Best Inspirational Romance! The Rancher's Rules won a Reviewers Choice Award from CataRomance. Ready, Willing & and Able were released as mass market paperbacks! Moon Awakening has been nominated for a Reviewer's Choice Award by Romantic Times. The bundle including The Billionaire's Pregnant Mistress was #3 on Harlequin's Best eBooks of 2007 List. 3 Brides for 3 Bad Boys on Nielson Bookscan's National Bestsellers list. Meagan's Chance is a finalist in the Eppies. Deal With This hit #10 on Amazon's Contemporary Romance Bestseller's list and #32 on the Nielson Bookscan Romance National Bestseller's list. Deal With This has been selected as a Blue Ribbon Favorite by Romance Junkies book reviewers. Lucy is a Spotlight Author on Romantic Times' website right now. To read a glimpse of the behind the scenes of writing Deal With This and an excerpt you won't find anywhere else, click here. For the second week of its release, The Rancher's Rules is #2 on the Border's Group Top 10 National Bestseller's list for series romance, continues to be the #1 selling Harlequin Presents on Amazon right now and is up to #2 on their Bestsellers list for series romance. Harlequin Presents is having a writing contest. For info, click here. The Rancher's Rules was #5 on the Border's Group Top 10 National Bestseller's list for series romance, the #1 selling Harlequin Presents on Amazon and #6 on their Bestsellers list for series romance for the week of its release as well as being on the Nielson Bookscan Romance National Bestseller's list. And Deal With This was once again on the Nielson Bookscan Romance National Bestseller's list while continuing to be in Amazon's Top 50 Bestsellers for Contemporary Romance. Sheila "The Book Trailer Lady" did a video review of Deal With This for Amazon. If you have a minute, stop by and watch it. And if you find it helpful, don't forget to vote it that way. :) Blackmailed into Marriage is called a breakthrough book in an article about Harlequin Presents for Canada's popular news magazine (affiliated with CBS), Macleans. Read the article here. Lucy was interviewed along with Lori Foster by Phil Harris on his internet talk radio show, All Things that Matter. To listen to the interview, click here. Lucy has just been offered another two book contract from Kensington Brava. Look for her next two TGP stories in January and June of 2009. Lucy will be Guest Blogging November 27th, on Let's Talk Romance, LifetimeTV.com's Romance Channel blog. Between Your Sheets interviewed Lucy about what went on between the sheets of Annabelle's Courtship. Click here to read the interview. Harelquin Presents has grown in sales 14% in the past 12 months and is increasing the number of books published from 8 per month to 12 in January 2008.
(Lucy says, "Cool beans, huh?") Annabelle's Courtship spent 3 weeks on the Top 10 Bestsellers list for Samhain Publishing. (It will be releases as a tradesize paperback in Sept 08 and will be available at all major - and not so major - bookstores.) Debbie Macomber once told Lucy that she'd know her books were really getting popular when they showed up on Doubleday's flyers or ads for new members. Well, Deal With This will be an alternate selection for Doubleday and Rhapsody Book Clubs. So, she's feeling pretty great. LOL Lucy's two foreign exchange students have returned from Korea for their second year to stay with her family. Which makes that 5 teenagers in Lucy's house. (Well, six if you count her nephew currently living with her.) If you all were wondering why you don't see her online as often as you used to...that sort of explains it, no? The first book in The Goddard Project series, Satisfaction Guaranteed, spent three weeks on Nielson Bookscan's National Bestseller's List. Connected to Ready, Willing & And Able, it got some great reviews and neat reader reaction (thank you everyone who took the time to write or email). Lucy's hoping to have 5 to 7 books in this series. Book Trailer for Moon Awakening won the Cameo Award for Fantasy Trailer. 
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