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Featuring Lisa Jackson, #1 New York Times Best-selling Author, discussing ABSOLUTE FEAR, a pulse-pounding new novel of madness, deceit, and twisted revenge that will take readers into the heart of fear… ABSOLUTE FEAR is now available in paperback! Lisa Jackson’s talent for exploring the dark side of life has placed her among those elite authors who repeatedly top national bestsellers lists. Her novel Fatal Burn was a number one New York Times paperback bestseller in March 2006, and in April 2006, her first book to be published in hardcover, Shiver, was number four on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Jackson returns to New Orleans and the chill of Shiver’s Our Ladies of Virtue hospital in ABSOLUTE FEAR, just published in hardcover by Kensington Books. For the past three months, Eve Renner has struggled to remember the night she was nearly killed and her lover was tried for murder. She remembers getting the anxious call from a friend from her past: “Meet me at the cabin. I’ve got evidence.” She remembers seeing that friend lying in a pool of blood. And she remembers a horrifying glimpse of her lover Cole Dennis’s face as a gunshot plunged her into darkness. Now, her memory and emotions scarred, Eve has returned to New Orleans to forget the past. But the past will not be forgotten. Eve’s shattered memory has helped Cole walk on murder charges just as a new series of killings begins. Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

Featuring Lisa Jackson, #1 New York Times Best-selling Author, discussing her new latest novel LOST SOULS, her most harrowing novel yet… as a young woman’s determined hunt for a serial killer draws her into a twisted psychopath’s unspeakable crimes… LOST SOULS reunites Jackson with Detective Reuben Montoya and returns to the familiar backdrop of New Orleans. Jackson also re-introduces readers to now twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz, a woman who has nearly died twice at the hands of a serial killer, and lived to tell about it. Her dad—and Montoya’s partner—New Orleans detective, Rick Bentz wants Kristi to stay out of danger, but if anything, Kristi’s experiences have made her even more fascinated by the mind of a killer, and she’s determined to become a true crime writer. Kristi seems to find her perfect subject after discovering that four girls have disappeared at All Saints College in less than two years. All four were “lost souls,” troubled, vulnerable girls with no one to care about them, or come looking if they disappeared. The police think they’re runaways, but Kristi senses there’s something that links them, so Kristi decides to enroll, following their same steps. There are whispers of a dark cult on campus whose members wear vials of blood around their necks and meet in secret chambers, rituals to which only the elite have access. To find the truth, Kristi will need to become part of the cult’s inner circle, learn their secrets, and play the part of lost soul without losing herself in the process. And the deeper she goes the more Kristi begins to wonder if she is hunter or the prey. Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

Featuring NYT bestselling author Carl Weber discussing his scandalously spirited new novel SOMETHING ON THE SIDE. Weber introduces readers to the bodacious women of the Big Girls Book Club (BGBC) Tammy, Egypt, Isis, Nikki, Coco, and Tiny. There’s only one rule to be a member of this club, you must be at least a size 14 to join. At the center of the club is president, Tammy. She loves everything about her life— her family, her friends, but most of all she’d do anything for her husband Tim. So much so, that for his birthday, she’s convinced that involving her best friend Egypt in a threesome with them would be the perfect gift, now if she could just convince Egypt. Isis and her boyfriend, Tony, seem to have the perfect relationship — that is until a man from her past steps back into her life with only one goal in mind, to win back the woman he’s has never been able to forget. Single mom Nikki isn’t so lucky with men. After loving the father of her soon for so long, all she wants to do now is kill him, especially since he can’t seem to stop disappointing their son every chance he gets—and then making her look like the bad guy. Last but certainly not least, there’s hot-to-trot Coco Brown, who has a habit of messing around with married men. It doesn’t bother her, as long as they don’t try to deny it. IN STORES JANUARY 29, 2008! Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

Featuring Daaimah S. Poole, Essence Best-Selling Author, discussing her new latest novel ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING, the tale of a young woman with a hot voice and superstar dreams determined to reach stardom. Kendra Michelle Thomas has always dreamed of becoming an R&B singing sensation. With a winning voice, the looks and high school talent shows under her belt, everyone thought she’d be the next Mariah Carey. But between Kendra’s father abandoning her mother, her mother’s alcoholism, and a tragedy that lands Kendra and her siblings in temporary foster care, there’s not much opportunity for making dreams come true. Before Kendra knows it, she’s twenty-five years old, working as a bartender, and trapped in a relationship of convenience. Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

Featuring Mary Monroe, the NYT bestselling author, discussing her new latest novel DELIVER ME FROM EVIL. We can only wonder what incidents or people inspired the complex characters that inhabit DELIVER ME FROM EVIL... One such character is the protagonist, Christine Thurman, a woman from the wrong side of the tracks who made good by marrying Jesse Ray Thurman and helping him to build a business worth millions. Now, twelve years later, J.R. has become obsessed with his video store empire, and Christine feels trapped and alone in a dead-end marriage. Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

In Mary Monroe's latest novel DELIVER ME FROM EVIL, we can only wonder what incidents or people inspired the complex characters. One such character is the protagonist, Christine Thurman, a woman from the wrong side of the tracks who made good by marrying Jesse Ray Thurman and helping him to build a business worth millions. Now, twelve years later, J.R. has become obsessed with his video store empire, and Christine feels trapped and alone in a dead-end marriage. EXCLUSIVE VIDEO POD-EXCERPT! Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

Mary B. Morrison's sensuous novels expertly blend fiction with reality. Morrison is celebrated by readers again and again for her engaging characters and her erotic twists. Now, Morrison introduces a new cast of steamy characters in SWEETER THAN HONEY, including Lace St. Thomas - a woman who risks everything to reinvent herself. Lace operates Immaculate Perception, a wildly successful Las Vegas firm that pairs wealthy male clients with the sexiest female escorts. While it's the smoothest operation in town, business nonetheless turns deadly dangerous when one of her most popular escorts is murdered, and Immaculate Perception boss, Valentino James, clearly wants Lace to keep her mouth shut... EXCLUSIVE VIDEO POD-EXCERPT! Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

Gwynne Forster, Essence and Nationally Best Selling author of GETTING SOME OF HER OWN tells the engaging tale of Susan Pettiford. After an absence of sixteen years, she has come home to North Carolina, this time for good. Thanks to an inheritance, she can start her own interior design business. But it’s not quite the life Susan hoped for. Single at thirty-four, she now faces a challenge that forces her to accept one of her dreams will never come true. Battling sadness, Susan decides to engage in a fling… EXCLUSIVE VIDEO POD-EXCERPT! Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

Featuring Mary B. Morrison, the NYT bestselling author, discussing her new sensuous novel SWEETER THAN HONEY, in which she introduces a new cast of steamy characters, bringing her readers the drama, the thrills, and the danger of life lived on the edge. Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

In Kathy J. Marsh's AURA OF LOVE an introduction made…a new love born…society, families, and friends against it... A new power appears…a secret told…a culprit revealed... Will love survive? Will they survive?... As Remy struggles to come to grips with her feelings for Jace, an Auralite of a different coven, she has no idea that “one of their own kind” is revealing their existence, in a succession of dreams, to a world-renowned journalist. The hunt is on to find the culprit once the journalist reveals the dreams as a series of fictional accounts in a national magazine. Just as Remy starts to accept Jace, the guilty party is revealed to be someone they both know and love. They are now compelled to find the journalist before their ruling body, The Council, does…or the results will be disastrous. Does the hunt strengthen them, hurt them, or rip them apart? EXCLUSIVE VIDEO POD-EXCERPT! Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

Featuring Marguerite O’Connor the co-author of Griefstruck: When a Death Changes Your Life, a Funeral Director focusing on Advance Funeral Planning, and the founder of Grieforum, LLC. When a person experiences a significant loss, their world can be turned upside down... Nothing feels right or seems normal... In Griefstruck , the authors blend their extraordinary experiences in counseling, bereavement education and funeral service to coach readers as they heal and transform their grief. With practical tips, thought-provoking journaling and inspirational stories, the help the reader explore critical relationships to loss, self, family and others. In the midst of mourning, there is an opportunity for growth and self-discovery... Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

NYT best-selling author Lalita Tademy weaves together history and the story of her own family to bring us an epic work of fiction, the dramatic, intertwining story of two families struggling to make a place for themselves in an America deeply divided after the Civil War. A unique accomplishment, this is the history never before told, brought to life through the unforgettable lives of three generations of African American husbands and wives, parents and children. A saga of violence, courage, and most of all, dreams broken, repaired and strengthened over time, Red River explores issues that resonate to this day....as it illuminates the sometimes heartbreaking choices we all must make to claim the legacy that is ours. Tademy's first novel, CANE RIVER, was chosen as an Oprah's Bookclub(r) Pick. Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket (tm)...http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO POD-EXCERPT!--#1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner with FOREVER A HUSTLER'S WIFE -- In A Hustler’s Wife, Yarni worked for more than a decade to get Des’ life sentence overturned after he was incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. Now that he’s free, Des struggles with his promise to Yarni to give up his drug dealing lifestyle for her and their newborn daughter. Soon Des finds an even greater hustle – one that would allow him to possess the three things that all major players desire: money, power, and respect. He becomes a preacher. Yarni reluctantly stands by as her man as he trades in his triple beam scale for a bible and a Bentley, making his church a welcoming place for all sinners. As word of his church spreads, people come from all over to be a part of Des’ congregation. When Des’ success goes to his head and Yarni now finds both her loyalty to her man and her faith tested. With FOREVER A HUSTLER’S WIFE... Turner, known as the "Queen of Hip Hop Fiction", delivers another treat filled with hot romance and a shocking new hustle. Check it out! http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket(tm)!!!

VIDEO POD-EXCERPT!--#1 NYT author Lisa Jackson with ABSOLUTE FEAR -- Lisa Jackson’s talent for exploring the dark side of life has placed her among those elite authors who repeatedly top national bestsellers lists. Her novel Fatal Burn was a number one New York Times paperback bestseller in March 2006, and in April 2006, her first book to be published in hardcover, Shiver, was number four on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Jackson returns to New Orleans and the chill of Shiver’s Our Ladies of Virtue hospital in ABSOLUTE FEAR, a pulse-pounding new novel of madness, deceit, and twisted revenge that will take readers into the heart of fear.. For the past three months, Eve Renner has struggled to remember the night she was nearly killed and her lover was tried for murder. She remembers getting the anxious call from a friend from her past: “Meet me at the cabin. I’ve got evidence.” She remembers seeing that friend lying in a pool of blood. And she remembers a horrifying glimpse of her lover Cole Dennis’s face as a gunshot plunged her into darkness. Now, her memory and emotions scarred, Eve has returned to New Orleans to forget the past. But the past will not be forgotten. Eve’s shattered memory has helped Cole walk on murder charges just as a new series of killings begins. Lisa Jackson’s work has taken her to the seamier sides of New Orleans, Savannah, San Francisco and her home territory, the Pacific Northwest—all in the company of killers. In addition to Fatal Burn and Shiver, her other recent national bestsellers include Twice Kissed, Final Scream, Deep Freeze and The Morning After. Most recently, she co-authored the bestseller MOST LIKELY TO DIE with Beverly Barton and Wendy Corsi Staub. Check it out! http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket(tm)!!!

VIDEO POD-EXCERPT!--Urban Christian author Monica P. Carter with SACRIFICE THE ONE -- A faith-themed family drama set against the backdrop of rejection, rebellion and redemption. When an adored and treasured woman risks and loses her life to have the child she always dreamed of, a wave of repercussions follows. Rose is the treasured wife of Robert Armstrong. Rose, always headstrong, knows having a baby could be risky after having already miscarried. But she wants nothing more than to hold in her arms the little girl she has always wanted. She bargains with God, if he’ll just give her a baby, she won’t ask for anything else. She gets the baby, but at the stake of her own life. Robert could leave or take becoming a father. All he’s ever wanted was to spend his life with Rose. Everything he does is because of her, for she is the woman who wiped away so many years of loneliness and became the center of his world. When he loses her as a result of childbirth, he can’t take it. He wants to be angry at someone; he wants to be angry with his beloved Rose. But it’s too much weight to carry being angry with the woman he loved more than his own life, so he turns to the next person: the child of that union, Seta. Check it out! http://www.authorsinyourpocket.com Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In Your Pocket(tm)!!!