Hello to all my readers out there! May you have a wonderful New Year filled with exploration, excitement, gratitude and peace. I think that covers all the bases!

You can read - and rate - an excerpt from a new mystery novel of mine, Marathon, at this web address right now through January 2nd:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977202009

You do have to register - just a first name and e mail address - to vote, and only "10's" count, although you can comment as well if you wish. It's pretty painless, and will give you a little taste of a type of fiction you haven't read from me before. I'd really appreciate it, too!

If you get a chance to do so, e mail me that you have at genie@geniedavis.com, and I'll send you a gift copy of The Girl and the Gun, my short published on Amazon to introduce you to a little bit more of my writing .

News on the romance/erotic romance book front coming soon....

Wishing you much good cheer -
Genie

Blogging not Jogging...


But always on the run, at least that how life feels these days. So much to do so little time and when one is writing, well, one just writes. It's really difficult to get out there and show your face, much less manage trips to the grocery store (s). Does any one shop at just one anymore? I mean there's Whole Foods for the dried fruit, Vons for the bottled water and store brand detergent, the farmers market for the fresh fruit...

Anyway - it's been awhile and time to say hello to anyone out there scanning the web, just waiting to see what I have to say next.

Norman Mailer is gone, Idiocracy looks like the film that most defines society these days, the WGAW (of which I am a member) is on strike, college applications are now huge time consuming morasses in which one must prove just how incredibly brilliant one is by positing answers to banal questions and showing all the wonderful activities one has somehow had time to participate in while getting straight A's, participating in sports programs, and doing the dishes. I've seen these applications alot recently on my daughter's desk, and wow. All this so that one can then not get residuals as a screenwriter.

Life has gotten tougher, hasn't it?

Were you all looking for something more than just a November Night rant n' rave?

Well, stay tuned to my website www.geniedavis.com and watch out for new releases, new travel reviews, new photos, and links to winning a million dollars. The last one may not ever appear on line, but you never know, you'll feel badly if you missed taking a look and missed that million dollars.

Genie Davis
Author of:

The Model Man
Five O'Clock Shadow === soon to be translated into Portugese
Rodeo Man (in The Cowboy anthology)

RESURFACING...

Where have I been lurking and such? Has that question been burning in your minds?

Well, Five O'Clock Shadow is out, being read and reviewed

Review of FIVE O'CLOCK SHADOW by Genie Davis
Five O'Clock Shadow by Genie Davis
Fresh Fiction: Five O'clock Shadow by Genie Davis Review
The Romance Studio - The romance genre today, books, love, romance novels, romance...

Very pleased to see 4 and a half stars from Romantic Times, and on the whole - exceptionally positive reviews, great fan mail, and - at least after I devote myself to handing out book marks at book fairs, decent numbers.

What else have I been doing -- I've been writing, finishing, partialing, submitting, searching for new representation whom I love and loves me. I've been entering contests, querying, questioning.

My novella from THE COWBOY finaled in the Passionate Plume (erotic romance); I had a book signing at the LA Times Book Fair and actually met people who had heard of me; I am writing some how-to articles and book reviews on Fresh Fiction, and of course there are new travel reviews up on

Wicked Escapes - Nikki's Hot Spots

And speaking of travel - I've been in New York meeting, greeting, and showing my kids wonderful sites I haven't seen myself since before they were born. Yes, Times Square IS real. The Village is NOT just the name of a bad M. Night Sham. movie. You really can still eat dinner at 1 am on a Tuesday. Central Park is big. The Staten Island Ferry runs on time and is still free. My friend at the Food Network took us to Tao, which is amazingly cool, hip, and the chef gave my kids baseball caps.

And I've been in Alabama offering a seminar on "From idea to completion..." how to pull that one off has sometimes been a personal challenge recently and it's kind of cool to be able to share how I've done it with others. I'd never been in the south before except New Orleans so long ago I don't even want to say how long. We had great bar b q at a place called Dreamland, which is close enough to the name of my first book that I HAD to eat there, and it wasn't disappointing. Oh and I discovered sweet iced tea. I should never ever live in the south, because I would just drink sweet iced tea all day and then eventually explode.

My personal advice to you this month of May - get yourself a glass or a gallon and go read a book!

Genie

I was delighted to see Romantic Times gave FIVE O'CLOCK SHADOW four and a half stars...

Come on! buy the book! it's cheap - the cover's sexy - buy last year's The Model Man, too - it's even cheaper! get free bookmarks (someone is selling mine signed on e bay for $100. I bet they won't get that much, but you never know - buy my cheap, good books, enjoy them, and get signed stuff you can use to pay for your next vacation!!!)

ANYWAY ---

Here's the RT review:

A thoroughly engaging heroine whose witty, first-person voice and palpable love of music make this novel terrific. Davis gives all her characters strong dialogue, unique personality
traits and an amusing, offbeat plot to work their way through. But Jessie's narrative is especially delightful. The song references are great fun and in keeping with the heroine's point of view, while her relationship with the hero is steamy but with an underlying tenderness that makes their love scenes compelling.

Summary: Thirty-year-old indie-rock DJ Jessie Adams runs for city council in an attempt to help a friend, but she doesn't expect danger to strike on the campaign trail. She also doesn't
expect to fall for the hot-as-sin police detective on the case -- a man with whom she shares an
uncanny sexual chemistry and who's as different from her "type" as Louis Armstrong is from AC/DC.


While the self-assured Chuck Jackson can't and won't defend the inexplicable attraction between himself and Jessie, he's as puzzled as she is by their similar way of thinking (the "Vulcan
mind-meld," as he puts it), their mutual adoration for pizza and Star Trek, and the way he's openly rearranging his life to include this new woman. Can a love between opposites
work out long term, or will the sizzling passion between them burn out as quickly as it began? (ZEBRA, Feb., 320 pp., $4.99)
HOT

-Marilyn Weigel

I'm over on another blog today, Romance Reviews Today -

http://romrevtoday.blogspot.com/

Come by and check it out!

Genie

NEW BOOK COMING OUT!!! February 2007 it's time for -

FIVE O'CLOCK SHADOW

my new sexy romantic suspense with a lot of humor...

if you'd like a cover flat or book mark, please e mail me at genie@geniedavis.com

Here's a blurb:

Jessie Adams, indie-rock DJ, part-time musician, and full-time fool for long haired rockers
makes a run for local political office to help save her best friend's music club, and finds danger in a stranger's threats and an intense affair with Chuck, a cop with his own cause. When your life depends on surviving both love and a political campaign, winning is only half the battle.

Praise for Genie Davis' The Model Man - winner of The Road to Romance Reviewers Award! "...intelligent, tautly drawn...hard to put down..." Affaire de Coeur

Back at the Blog again...

It's been far too long, but there's been two weeks of vacation, plus attendance at this year's RWA writing conference last minute in Atlanta.

It seems that many publishers want erotic romance. I don't mind complying, and am happy to report that my new anthology in that line, The Cowboy, received a pretty cool review from Fallen Angel Reviews, among others "I'm dazed and feel as if I was on a raging bull barely able to hang on. This story really took me for a loop; pure erotica at its best. If that wasn't enough the intense underlying emotions of two people so in tune with each other's bodies was beautiful to imagine.This is the first story I've read from Nikki Alton but I will definitely place her on my must have list. She is a sure thing with a screaming orgasm on top."

In spite of the fact that I want to be known for other things that erotic romance, I still regret not writing this one under my own name instead of my psuedonym, Nikki Alton. For one thing its difficult to link the Amazon pages and plog. For another this seems to be selling better than romantic suspense. Or my literary fiction certainly.

Oh, Mrs. Giggles - and she's tough to please - gave a nice thumbs up to my rom/suspense The Model Man.

It's still there looking to be swept off the shelves and into your fall reading staff (rake it up before you hit the autumn leaves, okay?) I'll have a new romantic suspense, Five O'Clock Shadow coming in February 2007.

The gree means go buy it.

Meanwhile, on vacation I encountered millions of stars in a light pollution free Oregon coastal sky, a couple of ghosts (yes, really), seastacks and rain forests and ferrys and the sound of seagulls wheeling through a quiet little town late at night. Among other things. Great settings for future books I hope.

Anyway, hope y'all forgive a long absence, and enjoy The Cowboy.

Genie (also known as Nikki)