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"IF YOU LIKE MARY HIGGINS CLARK, YOU'LL LOVE WENDY CORSI STAUB!" -- #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Lisa Jackson
Wendy discusses her young adult series "Lily Dale" with the NYC Chapter of Romance Writers of America: Click here
Wendy discusses her writing process with the NYC Chapter of Romance Writers of America: Click here
Wendy discusses her upcoming 2008 releases with the NYC Chapter of Romance Writers of America: Click here
Listen to Wendy's BEA podcast interview about Lily Dale: Click here
The critically acclaimed award-winning author of over seventy books, Wendy Corsi Staub is a New York Times bestseller with the suspense novels she writes under her own name, and a USA Today bestseller with women's fiction she writes under her pseudonym Wendy Markham.
To schedule an interview or appearance, please contact publicist Nancy Berland at 800-308-3169 or nberlandpr@nancyberland.com.
Wendy’s latest adult thriller, DON'T SCREAM, spent five weeks on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists! Publisher's Weekly says: "Staub keeps things taut and unpredictable, changing perspective often and offering up a whole school of red herrings; capped with a gratifying conclusion, Staub's latest is a(n)...effective thriller."
LILY DALE, Wendy's new Young Adult paranormal series, on sale now. Get your copy here.
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Set the Tone for Autumn with
Wendy Corsi Staub’s
LILY DALE: AWAKENING contest!
What could be better on a crisp October night than a spooky page-turner—and some great music to read by? Wendy Corsi Staub will share music by some of her favorite artists with one lucky grand prize winner this month: U2's OCTOBER, George Winston’s AUTUMN and James Taylor’s OCTOBER ROAD. Along with the three CDs, the grand prize includes an autographed copy of LILY DALE: AWAKENING, the first title in Wendy’s YA paranormal suspense series. One runner-up will receive an autographed book from Wendy’s backlist. The drawing will take place October 31.
Click here to enter the contest.
LILY DALE: AWAKENING
She may be able to see the future, but she needsto know what happened to her past.
Calla thought that her boyfriend breaking up with her in a text message was the worst thing that could ever happen to her. But just two weeks later, her mother died in a freak accident, and life as she knew it was completely over. With her father heading to California for a new job, they decide that Calla should spend a few weeks with the grandmother she barely knows while he gets them set up on the west coast.
To Calla’s shock, her mother’s hometown of Lily Dale is almost entirely populated by spiritualists who can communicate with the dead—and her grandmother is one of them. Suddenly, the fact that her mother never talked about her past takes on more mysterious overtones. The longer she stays in town, the stranger things become, as Calla starts to experience unusual and unsettling events that lead her to wonder whether she has inherited her grandmother’s unique gift. Is it this gift that is making her suspect that her mother’s death was more than an accident, or is it just an overactive imagination? Staying in Lily Dale is the only way to uncover the truth. But will Calla be able to deal with what she learns about her mother's past and her own future?
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At long last, I’ve jumped into the social networking craze. My brilliant husband, Mark, and our pals and former ad agency colleagues Peter Meluso and Ed Dintrone over at Acquaint Interactive, have created a personal social networking site just for me. Please come on over to www.wendycorsistaubcommunity.com to visit my discussion forums, read my blog, see tour photos, and learn the story behind the story of DYING BREATH via my innovative read-along-with-Wendy event!
I’ve also set up a myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/wendytheauthor. Calla, the teenaged heroine of my Lily Dale Books, has a page there, too: www.myspace.com/lilydalebooks. You can read her blog and see photos of the real spiritualist town, Lily Dale, in upstate New York.
I was thrilled just to have been nominated for an RT Career Achievement in Suspense award this spring, alongside the venerable Andrea Kane, Karen Rose, and Karin Slaughter. Imagine my astonishment and joy when I won the category and was presented with the award itself at the RT Booklovers Convention in Pittsburgh this month! I’m grateful to the terrific folks at Romantic Times. You can read more about the convention here: www.romantictimes.com.
My Fifty-State book tour is continuing through 2008 and beyond. Last year, I added a dozen new states during a month-long visit to the Pacific Northwest. Now I'm working on a new tour schedule, so check my What's New page often to see if I'll be visiting your state this year!
I’m also venturing overseas, so if you're an aspiring writer who loves to travel, here's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you to join me this summer under the Tuscan sun! In cooperation with Il Chiostro, the renowned La Jolla Writers Conference is venturing overseas to Tuscany from June 28-July 5. I'll be there, along with noted literary publicist Antoinette Kuritz and agent Taryn Fagerness, to present a full week of lectures and workshops. Check out the courses and the stunning setting here: http://www.ilchiostro.com/San%20Fedele-Writing.htm.
April 29, 2008, marks a career milestone with the release of not one, but THREE books: two brand new suspense novels, as well as the trade paperback edition of my fall hardcover.
DYING BREATH (Zebra Books) features a stay-at-home-mom who is tormented by premonitions of children in danger-and terrified when she begins to have visions involving her own daughter. You can find out more about DYING BREATH on my WHAT'S NEW page, and read the prologue by clicking the Excerpts tab at left. It received a four-star review from RT Bookreviews Magazine: “Staub's books, filled with emotion and terrifying details, are impossible to put down.” Armchair Interviews also gave it a rave: “Wendy Corsi Staub has been compared to Mary Higgins Clark for good reason.”
LILY DALE: BELIEVING (Walker Books for Young Readers), is the second installment in my YA paranormal series for young adults. You can read the first chapter by clicking the Excerpt tab at left, and listen to a podcast interview by clicking HERE. If you missed the series debut title, now is the time to pick up LILY DALE: AWAKENING, new in paperback. The third title in the series, LILY DALE: CONNECTING, will be out in November.
July 1, 2008, marks a similar milestone, with TWO brand new Wendy Markham novels released that day as well:
Loyal readers who can't get enough of my chick lit heroine Tracey Spadolini can look for the next sequel, SLIGHTLY SUBURBAN, from Red Dress Ink. Now that she’s been SLIGHTLY SINGLE, SLIGHTLY SETTLED, SLIGHTLY ENGAGED, and SLIGHTLY MARRIED, she’s decided the grass is looking greener beyond New York City.
If you’ve met and fallen in love with the Chickalini family in my ongoing series from Warner (THE NINE MONTH PLAN, ONCE UPON A BLIND DATE, and BRIDE NEEDS GROOM)—here comes the latest installment! In THAT'S AMORE, kid brother Ralphie is the hero, trying to deal with the realization that he'll never see his late father again...or will he?! There’s a fun hint of supernatural in the mix, and a reappearance by Madame Tamar, the matchmaking gypsy fortune-teller. Here’s an early review from the esteemed Library Journal: “Markham doesn’t play this one predictably, adding a few twists and sweet turns until our lovers realize home is truly where your heart is.”
For an autographed copy of a current release or any of my in-print backlist titles, contact The Book Nook in Dunkirk, NY. It's my all-time favorite independent bookstore, and was the first important stepping stone on career path: I worked there throughout my college years. Call (716) 366-0685 or email booknook@netsync.net and my good friends, owners Rick and Patty Donovan, will be happy to help!
With five new titles and a reissued thriller out in 2008 from four different publishers under two different names, I’m busier than ever before. Be sure to pop in often and check for updates. Leave me a note on my guestbook, and remember, I can't respond unless you include your email address in the body of the note!
Listen to an interview with Wendy on Sign On Radio
Click here and select the January 17th segment.
 Wendy's Las Vegas Tour,
October 2005
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