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Today best-selling author Hailey North describes herself as a “free
spirit and a believer in happy endings.” She’s been penning
stories set in her adopted hometown of New Orleans and the fictional
town of Doolittle, Arkansas, since the mid 90’s. Bedroom
Eyes,
her first release, was hailed by the Detroit Free Press as “one
of 1998’s top ten romances” and Love: Undercover,
her June 2004 romantic comedy, is “just the book to give your spirits
a lift,” according to Romantic Times.
A former “game-show
lawyer”, Hailey loves to write stories that make people smile.
If you’ve had a hard day and want to settle down with a book guaranteed
to put a grin on your face, look for any one of Hailey’s romantic
comedies: Love: Undercover, Opposites Attract, Tangled
Up in Love, Dear
Love Doctor, Perfect Match, Pillow
Talk, and Bedroom Eyes.
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Dear
Readers,
Thanks to all of you who have written to ask when my next book will
be out. The wait is almost at an end! Not
the Marrying Kind hits
the shelves October 30th.
This
book is a very special one. As most of you know, it's
the first book I've written since the devastating losses of
Hurricane Katrina. Returning to Doolittle, the setting of Tangled
Up In Love and Love: Undercover, for this book proved to be a healing
process for me.
And for Harriet P. Smith and Jake Porter, returning to Doolittle,
a town neither one of them ever wanted to visit again, proved to
be just what the love doctor ordered.
Harriet is the nerd who turned into a beauty; Jake is the popular
guy who never settled down, never looked back. Despite the gulf between
them in high school, they shared one magical night together.
A magical
night that forever changed Harriet's life, especially
when she realized that Jake had left town with no forwarding address.
I'm
going to let Harriet and Jake tell their own story. As you can
see in
this excerpt, Harriet has
a secret she truly needs to share with Jake.
Don't
miss my new contest.
Enter for a chance to win a marvelous Don't Ever Forget New Orleans basket.
My
publisher is launching an amazing
new website featuring your favorite
Avon
Authors. Please visit often, as the site is
constantly updated. I've posted some of my favorite photos
there as well as some fun facts you might like to drop into conversation
with your friends. They'll wonder just how you know my guilty
secret!
Sincerely,
Hailey
North
p.s.
Thanks again to everyone who wrote following Hurricane
Katrina.
The region still struggles in the rebuilding process. My family
is doing much, much better. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers.
My favorite photo from this period is of my husband
and me taking a moment to share a kiss while mucking
out our
flooded house. What a hero!
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Hailey's Photo Gallery
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My cats, Mocha (right)
and Stanley, enjoying a Charlie Ward bayou scene. Charlie
is a New Orleans French Quarter artist. |
Bishop Lamy's Chapel on the grounds
of Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fe, where I said a special prayer
for friend and author Linda West/Dixie Kane who passed away
March 1st, 2004. |
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Photos of some of my author friends at
the beautiful and
relaxing
Bishop's
Lodge in Santa Fe, during Novelist Inc.'s March 2004
retreat. It was the perfect spot for renewing our creative
selves and our friendships. Pictured above left:
Erica Spindler (l) and Karen Young;
Center: Hailey North (l) and Karen Young;
Right: Hailey North (l) and Erica Spindler.
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I
had the pleasure of entertaining Rosemary of Rosemary’s
Romance Books, of Brisbane, Australia, in February
2004 during New Orleans’ extravaganza of Mardi Gras.
(Rosemary is pictured, left, wearing the yellow tunic. That's
me in my
bookworm outfit!) Our seasons may be different,
but our love of romance is universal! |
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Read an exclusive Eclectics.com interview
with Hailey here.
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