GenieDavis

2007-12-29T10:46:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-10T20:23:00.000-08:00

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)

2007-05-17T13:09:00.000-07:00

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

2007-01-11T19:35:00.000-08:00

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

2006-11-21T12:40:00.000-08:00

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

http://romrevtoday.blogspot.com/

Come by and check it out!

Genie

2006-11-14T20:03:00.000-08:00

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

2006-09-06T19:18:00.000-07:00

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)

2006-07-11T19:40:00.000-07:00

www.salvationmountain-site.com

Nothing to do with ME whatsoever. Here is a very talented artist's labor of love in the middle of the desert.

Ever feel like it's tough doing what YOU'RE doing?

We visited Mr. Knight, and let me tell you, he works hard.

Genie

2006-07-11T19:30:00.000-07:00

REVIEWERS CHOICE

I was very pleased to see that I was selected as one of the winners of the Road to Romance Reviewers Choice Awards -

"Please join me in congratulating the following authors on receiving The Road to Romance Reviewers Award! The Reviewers of The Road to Romance have the option of giving this award to several books a year that they consider outstanding."
June 2006

I trust Road to Romance won't mind me excerpting from the original review here -

"....It took me quite a while to write the review for this book. I read this book twice, before writing the review as I wanted to do it justice. Christy is anything but a typical romance heroine. It is a credit to the author's writing skill that she made me not only care about Christy, but actually identify with her.

The story is complex, and involved. The premise of a con artist falling in love with a police detective is unusual as well as humorous. There are several laugh-out-loud funny sections, as well as edge-of-your-seat suspense. The secondary characters are unique, and add a great deal to the story.

Genie Davis describes the Los Angeles setting in a vivid and striking fashion. The time frame is mid-December as Christmas is approaching and Los Angeles is in the midst of a Santa Ana. She shows the tawdriness under the glitz and glamour. The incongruous use of inflated snowmen, purple tinsel trees and sleds as decorations in eighty-degree weather and gusting winds is only one example of this. Ms. Davis' familiarity with the area shines through each description. I highly recommend this book, and look forward to reading more from this author.

Reviewed by Nancy Riggins-Hume for The Road to Romance

Genie Davis for THE MODEL MAN

PS -- THE COWBOY (writing as Nikki Alton here) is now available for pre-order on Amazon!

2006-06-12T19:39:00.000-07:00

Live, write, or die - and always promote...

by talking. Mostly it seems I promote by talking. I am not sure what it translates to, this verbal awareness program, in terms of sales, but -

I'll be talking about writing novels from idea to finish at the Muse conference on line in October.

I'll be talking June 21st at The Romance Studio chat room, 6 pm pacific.

I'll be talking June 25 at Joyfully Reviewed chat for Aphrodisia authors, time TBA

I'll be talking July 8 at Fallen Angel Reviews chat, 6 pm pacific.

I'll be talking July 26 at Novel Talk, 6 pm pacific, too.

Yes, talk, talk, talk.

So how much talk translates into action, as in sales action?

Guess we'll see...

Also accumulating some diverse reviews that have surprised me, not places I requested reviews and places that I am surprised and delighted to see my publisher contacted -

Her World - Asia One network magazine reviewed THE MODEL MAN and so did the Halifax, Canada Herald Tribune...both good reviews, too.

AND one more thing to talk about - check out my updated website at www.geniedavis.com and my alter ego, Nikki Alton's new site at www.nikkialton.com

Okay, I'll shut up now. For a time.

Genie

2006-05-26T12:47:00.000-07:00

Just a quick post to wish everyone a great Memorial Weekend and read some Aphro's at the beach!

Second, I have a radio chat/interview on Tuesday May 30th at 11 am PACIFIC (2 pm EASTERN) on Achieve Radio
www.achieveradio.com

Click on Fran Silverman's show to listen in!

Genie a.k.a. Nikki Alton
THE COWBOY (anthology) August 2006

2006-05-10T12:57:00.001-07:00

Live, write, or die has become my slogan over on my group blog, All The World's a Page, shared with some very talented authors and editors including Pauline Jones.

There I rant, rave, and interact about writing, PR, publishing, inspiring books I've read, horrors of the day in the news, and wait to see what comments my fellow blog mates may make -

and yet it seems that I am living without dying to write over here on my own individual blog -

I update my 'plog blog' on Amazon pretty frequently, but usually with basic info about signings, panels, things like that...

on Aphrodesia Authors, I make announcements pertinent to my alter-ego, Nikki Alton and her releases

but here I think I'd have to term this blog Mission Impossible 4 -

what can you find out here that you can't find out anywhere else?

I could try to jump off a couple of tall buildings based on the processing of nonsensical geometric formulas similar to (but wrong, she'd fail her class if she did the problem THAT way) those in my daughter's high school text book and stick my finger in a light socket, but wait, that was MI3, the pretty-watchable-MI-movie. Not this blog.

So, here's some one of a kind in one place info and updates and links and stuff:

I'll be holding signings for my romantic suspense THE MODEL MAN at these locations in the coming months:

Westchester, CA Borders May 20
Passadena, CA Borders May 27
South Coast Plaza Costa MesaCA Borders July 15
Oxnard, CA Borders July 22
Santa Barbara, CA Borders July 23

And here's some current blurbs (out just this month!) on that book -

"Genie Davis writes pretty damn well...the book is so sharply observed...and dark edged enough to firmly cross the line into noir." Mark McDermott, Easy Reader

"THE MODEL MAN is ...wacky, witty... romantic, and satisfying..." Nanette, Joyfully Reviewed

"Davis's sharp, snappy writing style is wonderfully entertaining," John Charles, Reader To Reader Reviews

"THE MODEL MAN is a fast paced, made for Hollywood, must read caper... This one is going straight to my keeper shelf." Rosie Bindra, Romance Junkies

AND MEANWHILE....

THE COWBOY anthology containing my Rodeo Man novella written as Nikki Alton

is now available for pre-order on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0758215282/sr=1-2/qid=1147287632/ref=sr_1_2/002-3489 879-2076022?%5Fencoding=UTF8

If you're not in a buying mood and/or erotic romance isn't for you, you can read my for all-ages travel memoirs -- just in time for your summer vacation planning - for FREE (yes, free) at

Travel articles
http://www.synergise.com/tales/tale1043-north-america-usa-idaho-montana-wyoming.php
http://www.synergise.com/tales/tale1049-north-america-sierra-nevada.php

You can probably guess that article #1 takes place in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming - it chronicles a road trip from last summer and may take you on a couple of drives you'll not hear a word about anywhere else (that obscure, yeah)

Article #2 is about Gold Country in Northern California.

Okay, that's a lot of news in one place. That's a lot of writing, too, probably enough to keep you reading until the next time I remember THIS IS MY BLOG TOO.

And welcome to it.

Oh and just to make sure you're paying attention, does E = mc2 x D + yz (axis) ~~ $#^ or not?
Make sure you know the answer before you jump off the next roof, okay?

Best,

Genie

www.geniedavis.com
Author of:
The Model Man - Kensington - 2006
The Girl and the Gun - Amazon Shorts - 2006
The Cowboy (anthology as Nikki Alton) Kensington Aphrodisia - 2006
Five O'Clock Shadow - Kensington - 2007

(and Dreamtown - TFW - 2001, still in print)

2006-03-13T15:30:00.000-08:00

For those of you in Southern California, here are some of the appearances I'll be making the next two months - I'm especially excited to be included in the Suspense Panel at the Palm Springs Book Fair, April 22nd.

March

Sunday, March 12, at 2pm-4 Borders West Hollywood
330 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Phone:310.659.4045

Sunday, March 26, at 2pm-4 Borders Rolling Hills
550 Deep Valley Drive
Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274
Phone:310.544.4678

April

Saturday April 22 Palm Springs Book Fair
1:30-3:30 Suspense Panel - speaker and Q& A
Signing follows panel

Saturday April 29 at 2 pm-4 Borders Long Beach at The Pike
101 S. Pine Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90802
New store: no phone yet

April 30, 3 pm Barnes and Noble Torrance
Del Amo Fashion Center
21500 Hawthorne Blvd
Torrance, CA 90503
310-370-5552

Sunday May 20
2 pm-4 Borders Westchester
6081 Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Phone:310.215.3720

May 27 2-4 Borders Pasadena
475 South Lake Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101
Phone:626.304.9773

May 6 TIME TBA Barnes and Noble Marina
13400 Maxella
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
310-306-3213

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE - or in Northern California in June!

Best, Genie

2006-01-26T18:50:00.000-08:00

Hello whoever is out there reading - I'm new to blogging, but I'm told by other authors it's a good way to promote interest in a book and get to know some readers. So that's why I'm here.

I do have a new book out THE MODEL MAN Kensington/Zebra - over on Amazon one reader compared me to Elmore Leonard...Booklist liked me... it's fun, sexy, tons of twists and turns - an edgy romantic suspense... and you can check out more about it and me at my home page

www.geniedavis.com

It's a Zebra Debut book which means it a reading bargain, so - give it a read. Tell me if you like it or don't like it. I mean come on, you're gonna spend more on an iced decaf non-fat mocha tall or grande or whatever. I cannot bring myself to learn those sizes. What's wrong with small, medium or large? But anyway - a little Hershey's syrup in a cup of instant and an ice cube FOR ONE DAY at home and you can have my book to read while you drink it.

Then there's freebies:

over at gather.com --- Gather | New Year's Eve

a short story - still romantic, but with a little edge...

and soon a romance with a lot of edge, a noir that will be a part of the brand new and very exciting Amazon Shorts program - really pleased to be one of the start up authors here -

The Girl and the Gun will be linked to both The Model Man and a small-press title of mine, Dreamtown.

I also have a travel article up (or will as of the 31st of this month, and a second the end of February) at www. Synergise.com - A Road trip through the American West.

Hey, I'm open to talking about my books, characters, writing, my other incarnations as screen and TV writer (reality, daytime dramas, indie movie making), places to travel, to drive, favorite vacations, day trips, books, you know - everything. I'm pretty eclectic.

And of course, like any writer, I'm ready to gossip. Got any to start things rolling?