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B.J. Daniels: 
 I love to listen to western music since I write suspense set in the west. Western songs are great. I used to get ideas for short stories from western songs when I wrote for Woman's World. The songs give me a feel for that lifestyle, you know, pickup trucks, faithful dogs and women who break men's hearts.

Delores Fossen:
The soundtrack or song will vary with each book because I like the music to fit the characters or the situation. For my October Intrigue, Covert Conception, the music I listened to most was Linkin Park because the hero, Rick, is a little rough around the edges, and the music reminded me of him.

Paula Graves:
Yes, I do.  I usually put together a compilation CD with songs that remind me either of my hero, my heroine, my villain, or the overall theme/mood of the story. For my next Intrigue, which hasn't yet been scheduled and still doesn't have a title, I'd say the song that evoked the mood best for me was Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street," off his SO album.  For my current work-in-progress, I'm listening over and over to Natalie Merchant's "My Skin" from her OPHELIA album because it reminds me of the heroine.

Mallory Kane: 
I'm currently infatuated with the new Rockstar (for SuperNova) Lukas Rossi, so my soundtrack includes the songs he sang each week that made him the only logical singer to front SuperNova, including Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve), All These Things That I Have Done (Killers), Rebel Yell (Billy Idol), Livin' on a Prayer (Bon Jovi), I'll Try to Fix You (Coldplay), Creep (Radiohead), and my favorite song of all You Make My Head Spin (Lukas Rossi.) All of these songs in one way or another represent my hero, Geoffrey Archer, from the book I'm working on now, scheduled for 2008, Silent Guardian.   

Susan Kearney:
When I wrote The Quest, my booktrailer music played in my head.  If you want to hear it, play the booktrailer at my website. 

Sylvie Kurtz:
I like music, but not when I'm writing.  When things are flowing, I wouldn't even hear it anyway.  The only time I'll listen to music while working is when I'm stuck.  Then I'll put something like Tingstad & Rumbel, which has no distracting lyrics and relaxes me enough to get past the internal critic.  In the book I just finished writing Spirit of a Hunter (Seekers, book 5, out in 2007), the heroine is an ex-deejay, so there's a lot of classic rock music.  Pull of the Moon (December 2006) has only the music of nature. 

Julie Miller:
In my current release, Baby Jane Doe, the soundtrack from the Broadway musical, WICKED, was my story anchor and emotional inspiration. I especially found the duet, "For Good" to be a real motivator. When Glinda (the Good Witch) and Elphaba (the future Wicked Witch of the West) sing about how they've influenced each other's lives, despite their differences, and made each other better people, it struck an echoing chord in how Commissioner Shauna Cartwright and Det. Eli Masterson's lives converge in my book. Shauna and Eli are both outcasts from the department, by virtue of her position and his lone-wolf reputation. Their attraction is forbidden by departmental rules, and, on the surface, it seems they have nothing in common. But Shauna and Eli bring out each other's strengths. The sexual and emotional tension between them sizzles, unspoken, beneath the surface until outside dangers force them together. Then, it is because they ARE different, and that they complement each other's strengths that they are able to stay alive and capture a group of killers. By the end of the book, their strengths--and their love--have changed each other "For Good."

Amanda Stevens:
For The Dollmaker, my first psychological thriller from MIRA Books, the soundtrack could only be the Mezzanine album by Massive Attack, a dark, moody production with menacing beats and haunting vocals that create a bleak, yet not altogether depressing atmosphere.  For the female protagonist who is desperately searching for her missing child, "Teardrop".  For the male protagonist who has lived the last seven years in an alcoholic fog, "Inertia Creeps".  And for the The Dollmaker, who is trying to create a perfect little world, "Angel". 

Rebecca York:
I think I'm an unusual writer.  I don't see my story in pictures.  I hear it in my head like a story.  In other words, I'm telling the story to myself.  I don't usually listen to music while I'm working.  If I do, it's classical music with no English words, so it doesn't interfere with my thinking as I'm writing.

Mallory Kane: Mallory's weekly online read on eHarlequin.com, tentatively titled Lone Star Lawman, is scheduled to begin on December 4, 2006. The story coincides with the release of Six-Gun Investigation in January of 2007, the first in a 3 book mini-series called The Silver Star of Texas.

Sue Kearney has just put a television interview about herself and her book, The Quest, on her web site. Just click on the home page and watch.

Sylvie Kurtz congratulates Nancy Dunn of Kansas. She was September's contest winner and will receive a signed copy of Personal Enemy and Ms. Longshot as well as a Bombshell-purple reading light.

Julie Miller: Julie's Intrigue, Baby Jane Doe, has been selected as the Harlequin website's host's pick for the October discussion book of the month. Look under "Harlequin Series" to join the host and other readers as they piece together clues, size up the hero's hunk quotient, and share thoughts on the book.

Pat White is thrilled to announce her 4.5 star review for Love on the Ropes from Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine.

• October 8
  • 2:00 pm- 4:30 pm
    • Julie Miller will be the guest speaker at the Burwell Library's autumn community meeting.  She'll be speaking on the writer's life, holding a Q&A session, signing books and assisting with the library's fundraising event. Burwell, Nebraska.

Lisa Childs will be giving away three copies of her Harlequin Intrigue, The Substitute Sister, in her website contest on October 14.

Sylvie Kurtz: Win a signed copy of A Rose at Midnight and a rose bookmark. Visit Sylvie's website for more details.

Pat White: Win a copy of Pat's first romantic comedy in the series, Got a Hold on You, and a $10 Starbucks Giftcard.  Contest ends October 31. Visit her website for more info. 

Rebecca York: Contest #39.  Rebecca will autograph and send a copy of The Secret Night to the winner of a drawing on November 5, 2006.  To be eligible for the drawing, send her an e-mail and please provide the following: (1) an address to send the book if you win and
(2) the title of the last Rebecca York book you read and where you got it (give name of store or library plus city and state where it is located)  Only one contest entry per person will be counted.  Contest runs until November 4.