Today my Israeli cousin asked me to pick up a copy of 50 Shades of Grey for her, and I told her there’s more to romantic erotica than red Audis and the red room of pain. Check out my new blog about the new erotic contemporary romance at heroes and heartbreakers.
I am very excited to be launching my new website. It was designed by my friends, Alex Tuller and Dean Temple at Drake Creative. Alex took the pictures of me with mini Hawkeye coming out of my head, as well as the exciting love triangle pics of Hawkeye, Dawn (a seventies mod version of Barbie) and Zera (from the original Planet of the Apes).
The whole action figure thing happened after Alex and I took what we thought was the real author shot – the one of me standing in the doorway. We just started fooling around toward the end (there had been a little wine involved, to loosen me up so I didn’t do rictus smile at camera) and started creating this whole torrid action figure drama (maybe I’ll get Alex to put up some of the other shots, so you can see the whole sequence).
I love the idea that the stuff we did when we thought we weren’t working became the center of the whole website design. In my career, it’s almost always turned out that the things I did for fun, without overthinking, turned out to be more successful than the projects I labored to create.
In any case, welcome to my new website! Hope you’ll come back to check out future blogs and post comments.
Fans of Science Fiction writer Robert Sheckley, rejoice! This Monday, April 7, at 6:30 pm, the New York Times Review of Science Fiction Readings is holding a tribute to the satirical, philosophical author who inspired Douglas Adams. The event is being held at the Soho Gallery for Digital Art, on 138 Sullivan Street in New York City.
Alisa Kwitney (Sheckley) will be reading the existential short story Warm, along with Nebula Award Winning author Michael Swanwick. A panel afterward will feature award winning SF editor Ellen Datlow, author and Temporary Culture publisher Henry Wessells, and psychotherapist and journalist Ziva Kwitney, who was married to Sheckley during his beatnik Greenwich Village phase and his first expat in Majorca phase.
The event is being organized by Jim Freund, host of the Pacifica Radio show Hour of the Wolf and curator of the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series. For more information click here»
Starting in Fall of 2014, Alisa will be teaching the Romance Writing Certificate Program at McDaniel College, following in the footsteps of NY Times Bestselling author Jennifer Crusie. The five-course, online program guides students through the process of creating a complete proposal package for an original, novel-length romance, and can be taken for credits that count toward a masters degree – or without credits, for professional development. You can check out the details here: http://www.mcdaniel.edu/graduate/your-plan/academic-programs/romantic-writing/
McDaniel also offers courses that focus on the literary and cultural aspects of the romance novel at the Nora Roberts Center for American Romance, taught by English professor Pamela Regis, author of A Natural History of the Romance Novel. Curious? Here’s the link. http://www.mcdaniel.edu/undergraduate/the-mcdaniel-plan/departments/english/the-nora-roberts-center-for-american-romance/
My new Avengers book should be on sale January 9, not January 1. Not sure why, but maybe the Marvel folks are helping out re the fiscal cliff.
Heroes and Heartbreakers is also featuring a sneak peek:
First Look: Alisa Kwitney’s New Avengers: Breakout Prose Novel …
Read Alisa’s latest blog on HeroesandHeartbreakers.com!
