1. What was the first concert you attended (without your parents) and do you still listen to
the band/artist today?

The first concert I attended without my parents (but with my best friend) was some type
of dance party in the middle of France’s biggest arena. You could see dozens of artists
and DJs in one single night and it used to be very popular. I went to that one specifically
to see one band: Take That. If you’re American, you might not have heard of them and
I apologize! I had a huge crush on Robbie Williams when I was a teenager. The crush
is still there, even though I’m married and he’s got a fiancée. I guess those things never
fade! I even named our cat Robbie (hey, it was the year of the R and it was the first name I
thought of!).
Anyhow, back to that concert, they only sang one song and it was frighteningly short, but I
remember very well the moment our eyes met. Robbie and I. It was fate. Or so my 14 year
old mind believed. It was a magical second!

2. What was the most recent show you watched on television?

On E4 (a British channel), they show reruns of Friends every evening, two or three
episodes in a row. I’ve therefore watched it all over again, from the first episode to the
last I’d never seen before. Some I remembered very well, some not at all. But it’s by re-
watching them that I really got it. That was a very good show! The dialogue, for one, is
amazing. I love looking at their clothes and crinkling my nose, asking myself ‘Did we really
wear these?!’ I read in a magazine that the channel has decided to stop the reruns from
September and that makes me sad. What a great way it was to go to bed after watching
Friends, a show that had no other goal but to make you smile?

3. Take out, What's for dinner?

Very good question! I think my daughter will want gnocchi. They’re cheese ones and I
make them with a cream sauce and shaved ham. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Enjoy!

4. Guilty movie pleasure, what is the one you re-watch?

When I’m sick and I have to stay home, I tend to re-watch Mr & Mrs. It’s not because it
has both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It isn’t even because they apparently fell in love
during the making of the movie. It’s just because well, I love it. I saw it the first time with
my husband when it was released. It was the last movie I saw in a long, long while as I
was pregnant with my daughter at the time (and newborns don’t let you go to the movies
often. As in never!). I remember going to the restaurant afterwards and talking about the
movie, giggling about the funny scenes (did you ever know Brad Pitt could be that funny?
). It holds some dear memories and whenever I watch it, it brings me back to that happy
place. Hence the perfect movie for when you’re ill!

5.  Favorite Hero in a book other then your own?

I love Ranger. I want more Ranger. I yearn for more Ranger scenes. Don’t know who
I’m talking about? Are you kidding me? (Go read the Stephanie Plum series by Janet
Evanovich). He’s the epitome cool guy. He’s sneaky and hot and he can make the heroine
burn with a single touch of his finger. He’s got his shortcomings, true, but I still love him.

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Join us June 5th at 1pm EST for the Pajama Chat Readers Online Book Club. We are discussing Wicked Becomes You by Meredith Duran. So Spread the word and comment to enter to win a copy of the book so you can be ready for the Book Club!

Wicked Becomes You
By Meredith Duran

Available Now!!
ISBN: 9781416593126 Price: $7.99 ($9.99 CAN)


Book Description

She’s been burned not once but twice by London’s so-call ed gentlemen . . .

Gwen Maudsley is pretty enough to be popular, and plenty wealthy, too. But what she’s best known and loved for is being so very, very nice. When a cad jilts her at the altar—again—the scandal has her outraged friends calling for blood. Only Gwen has a different plan. If nice no longer works for her, then it’s time to learn to be naughty. Happily, she knows the perfect tutor—Alexander Ramsey, her late brother’s best friend and a notorious rogue.

So why won’t a confirmed scoundrel let her be as bad as she wants to be?

Unbeknownst to Gwen, Alex’s aloof demeanor veils his deepest unspoken desire. He has no wish to see her change, nor to tempt himself with her presence when his own secrets make any future between them impossible. But on a wild romp from Paris to the Riviera, their friendship gives way to something hotter, darker, and altogether more dangerous. With Alex’s past and Gwen’s newly unleashed wildness on a collision course, Gwen must convince Alex that his wickedest intentions are exactly what she needs.

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June 12th 1pm EST
Stormwalker by Allyson James

Janet Begay is a Stormwalker--one who can channel the power of storms to work great magic. The desert town of Magellan is no stranger to the weird--vortexes that hold mystical energy lie just outside of town, and the residents are used to shape shifters, witches, shamans, and the occasional blood-sucking Nightwalker. Janet comes to Magellan to find a missing woman and confront her past, and she discovers secrets, lies, and hidden dangers. She'll need all the help she can get: from Mick, the mysterious fire-wielder who springs back into her life; from Coyote, a trickster god; from Jamison, her Changer friend; and from Nash, the Unbeliever sheriff who may be more powerful than all of them combined.

June 19th  2010
Risk No Secrets by Cindy Gerard

A RED-HOT ATTRACTION . . .
Twelve years of chasing bad guys didn’t erase beautiful Sophie Baylor from Wyatt Savage’s memory. If he had another chance, he’d never let her leave. So when she tracks him down from El Salvador and begs for help, he doesn’t ask questions—he just goes.
STARTS WITH A TERRIFYING THREAT . . .
Sophie is grateful her daughter survived a kidnapping attempt, but she won’t forgive herself until the girl who was mistakenly abducted is safe. Wyatt is the only man brave enough to take on the mysterious terrorists behind the crime—and the one irresistible man she wishes she had never let go.
. . . AND UNLEASHES AN UNFORGETTABLE ADVENTURE.
Sophie knows Central America’s steamy jungles and sticky politics better than anyone. Yet she refuses to hide in fear. Then she becomes the enemy’s number one target. Wyatt lost her once, and he won’t lose her again—even if he has to fight, kill, or die to save her.

June 26th
White Cat by Holly Black
BOOK ONE

White Cat

Cassel comes from a family of curse workers — people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail — he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.
Ever since, Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his façade starts crumbling when he starts sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He's noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. They are keeping secrets from him, caught up in a mysterious plot. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he also wonders what really happened to Lila. Could she still be alive? To find that out, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.
Holly Black has created a gripping tale of mobsters and dark magic where a single touch can bring love — or death — and your dreams might be more real than your memories.

DARK ORACLE Publisher's Blurb:

TARA SHERIDAN HAS A GIFT...
AND IT ALMOST KILLED HER.

As a criminal profiler, Tara used science and her intuitive skill at Tarot card divination to track down the dangerous and depraved, including the serial killer who left her scarred from head to toe. Since that savage attack, Tara has been a recluse. But now an ancient secret society known as Delphi's Daughters has asked for her help in locating missing scientist Lowell Magnusson. And Tara, armed with her Tarot deck, her .38, and a stack of misgivings, agrees to try.

Tara immediately senses there is far more at stake than one man's life. At his government lab in the New Mexico desert, Magnusson had developed groundbreaking technology with terrifying potential. Working alongside the brusque but charismatic agent Harry Li, Tara discovers that Magnusson's daughter, Cassie, has knowledge that makes her a target too. The more Tara sees into the future, the more there is to fear. She knows she has to protect Cassie. But there may be no way to protect herself--from the enemies circling around her, or from the long-buried powers stirring to life within....

Note to the Reader:

Tarot cards have always fascinated me. From the time that I purchased my first deck in high school, I was intrigued by the rich symbolism, the colors, and the stories told by the cards. If I was an artist, I'd have loved to create my own deck. Such a task is incredible daunting...especially for someone like me who has barely enough artistic talent to be able to paint a wall without courting disaster! 

Instead, I decided to write about the Tarot. Tara, the heroine of DARK ORACLE, is the embodiment of one of my favorite cards, the Queen of Swords. The Queen of Swords has always been a solitary figure, wounded by the sword of her own intellect. Its traditional meaning involves mourning and resolute action. Tara's much like that. She's a criminal profiler who uses Tarot cards to solve crimes, but she exiled herself from her work after she narrowly survived an attack by a serial killer. When Tara's forced to re-enter the world to work again, she must learn the lesson the Queen of Swords has to teach: the power of self-reliance. But she must move beyond that, to experience love and companionship again, become part of the world she's isolated herself from.

I hope that you enjoy exploring the cards with Tara.

-Alayna Williams

Website: www.alaynawilliams.com

Blog: www.delphisdaughters.blogspot.com