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| INTO THE STORM, Ballantine, on sale October 31, 2006 |
| BREAKING POINT, Ballantine, July 12, 2005 |
| HOT TARGET, Ballantine, December 28, 2004 |
| FLASHPOINT, Ballantine, March 2004 |
| GONE TOO FAR, Ballantine, July 2003 |
| INTO THE NIGHT, Ballantine, December 2002 |
| OUT OF CONTROL, Ballantine, March 2002 |
| OVER THE EDGE, Ivy, September 2001 |
| THE DEFIANT HERO, Ivy, March 2001 (reissued June 2003) |
| THE UNSUNG HERO, Ivy, June 2000 (reissued June 2003) |
| BODYGUARD, Fawcett, December 1999 |
| HEART THROB, Fawcett, March 1999 |
In March, 1999, Suz’s first mainstream title was released on Ballantine’s Fawcett imprint. HEART THROB was the story of a former A-list movie star who was trying to make a comeback while staying clean and sober. HEART THROB was reissued in February 2004 with a special $3.99 cover price!
Suz’s books have been met with as much public and critical acclaim as her award-winning series romances.
Her second
title, a romantic
adventure/suspense called BODYGUARD went into a second printing mere weeks after
its release in December, 1999. It went on to win RWA's Rita Award for Best
Contemporary Single Title Romance of the Year! BODYGUARD was reissued in February 2004 with a special $3.99 cover price!
Her third book for Ballantine, THE UNSUNG HERO, released on the Ivy imprint, was given a Gold Medal Review from Romantic Times Magazine as well as being voted RWA's Number One Favorite Book of 2000. THE UNSUNG HERO is the first in a number of books that will tell the ongoing story of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs.
THE DEFIANT HERO, the sequel to THE UNSUNG HERO, came out in March 2001, also from Ivy, followed by OVER THE EDGE, in September 2001. (OVER THE EDGE was voted RWA's Number One Favorite Book of 2001, and THE DEFIANT HERO was voted the Number Two Book of 2001!)
OUT OF CONTROL has recently won the Golden Leaf Award for Best Single Title Romance of 2002, and was named RWA's Number One Favorite Book of 2002.
INTO THE NIGHT was recently named the winner of the 2002 Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence from the Reviewers International Organization (RIO) for Best Romantic Suspense.
Note from Suz:
So what’s the difference between
writing series and mainstream romances?
Obviously, mainstreams are longer. But they’re really not that much longer than the books I write for Silhouette Intimate Moments. In fact, I fooled myself with HEART THROB. My outline for that book included about five different subplots. There was a subplot involving one of the owners of the local grill with the town mayor. There was a subplot about the local preacher. And so on.
A third of the way through the book, I realized that unless I wanted to end up with a 1200 page novel, I’d better cut my subplots back to the bare minimum. And I axed most of my colorful local inhabitants of the small southern town where the cast and crew of "The Promise" were filming on location. Oh, I didn’t kill them completely. Those characters are back there. I just keep them out of the spotlight!
Truth is, there’s not a whole heck of a lot of difference between my IMs and my mainstreams.
Well, yes, okay. Language. As in bad language. Yes, in a mainstream I can use what I call more realistic language. I still can’t get away with that in my series books. And there are some subtle differences in descriptions and in the amount of character introspection.
The similarities between my mainstreams and series books are far easier to name: I love writing them both.
I hope you can tell!
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