THIS WEEK: Readers & 'ritas

November Events

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Mary Burton

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary Burton, whose romantic suspense novels include DYING SCREAM, DEAD RINGER and I’M WATCHING YOU, is a Virginia native whose family’s Richmond roots run as deep as the nation’s. A graduate of Virginia’s Hollins University, she pursued a career in marketing before deciding that the stories buzzing around her brain really did deserve her attention. She took up the gauntlet, left her job and began writing her first novel. That very first manuscript, an historical romance, was published in 2000.

Mary wrote 16 novels and novellas for Harlequin and Silhouette before she began exploring romance and relationships as part of the dark world of multiple murderers and their motives in her novels for Zebra Books. She even brought danger and the threat of murder to her novella Christmas Past, which appears in the 2008 New York Times best selling holiday anthology SILVER BELLS along with stories from Fern Michaels, Joann Ross and Judy Duarte. Previously, another of her stories, Snow Maiden, was featured in the USA Today bestselling anthology A HERO’S KISS.

Born and raised in Richmond, Mary Burton is an avid baker and an accomplished cook, and even volunteered as a kitchen assistant at a local culinary school to hone her skills. She’s discovered that the creativity of baking entwines with her professional routine in a way she hadn’t anticipated. For her the act of baking is soothing, the kitchen the place she turns to when her writing hits a rough spot or she simply needs distance from her work. Once there, she’s working out dialogue, untangling plot lines and figuring out how to outsmart killers before the oven even finishes preheating.

When not writing, researching or baking, Mary can be found practicing yoga, enjoying her family, playing with her miniature dachshunds Buddy and Bella, or at work at the University of Richmond’s Culinary Arts Program.

Mary Burton writes full time. Her next suspense novel will also be set in Alexandria.

http://www.maryburton.com/

Books:

Merciless, February 2011
Senseless, January 2011
Dying Scream, December 2009

Plano - Reyes
Plano, TX 75024
http://www.meetup.com/DFWTea/events/16812444/
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Thanksgiving menu with the fixings

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Join us at the Fresh Fiction Readers Conference with C.L. Wilson, Gena Showalter and more on November 11 - 13, 2011!

Readers conferences are more than "the rage," they are the place to meet readers who relish talking endlessly about favorite books, authors, series, characters, universes and so much more not understood by others! So come and "celebrate passionate literary obsessions" with a few new and old friends! And enjoy sharing meals with Ann Aguirre, Michele Bardsley, Marie Bostwick, Jillian Burns, Monica Burns, Dakota Cassidy, Nikki Duncan, Louisa Edwards, Jade Lee, Candace Havens, Missy Jane, Marianne Mancusi, Jill Monroe, Kristen Painter, Vicki Pettersson, Jane Porter, Melissa Bourbon, Gena Showalter, Roxanne St. Claire, Jeanne C. Stein, Tara Taylor Quinn, Jaye Wells, Lori Wilde, Lauren Willig, C.L. Wilson, and J.D. Tyler.

Regrets received from Julia Justiss, Alyssa Day. We will miss them and hope to see them at future Readers & 'ritas or other Dallas Fort Worth area events.

Opportunities will abound to share your opinion about current book trends (Hot & Spicy versus. Sweet & Mild), best book care practices to keep your collection in top notch condition (ABCs and 1-2-3s of books), where to buy and trade your books, what's the best e-reader for you YOUR reading habit, learn about books and authors you possibly missed, how to get a book club going in your neck of the woods and so much more. Plus meals are included as well as at least one margarita! After all, this is Texas and we practice margaRITA therapy!

Activities include:

SPACE IS LIMITED

Tickets Available

The next Readers & 'ritas Conference at the Hilton Garden Inn, Allen, Texas is Friday, November 11th to Saturday, November 12th for only $100 (stay for the additional Sunday brunch on November 13th). Stop by and sign up, Our hotel block -- rooms only $79 per night -- ends on October 11th! And tell your friends... they won't want to miss this sure-to-be talked about event!

Readers-n-ritas.org ... celebrate passionate literary obsessions

Readers 'n 'ritas is an annual event held on the second weekend in November for readers and authors to mingle in both formal and informal discussions. It's the perfect gathering for people who love to read and want to share their addiction. Readers-n-ritas.org

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Photos from past events