Feature - Wendy Corsi Staub's Live to Tell (& a giveaway)

Author Wendy Corsi Staub is one busy gal! Last year, every single time I emailed her, she was either on her way to some event, or coming back from one. I honestly don't know how she can write so prolifically as she does! Even this guest post today (see below) was written while on a flight back to JFK from a Caribbean vacation. Now that's dedication! And that's one of the reasons why she's so wide read as she is.

If you're new to this author, then I must tell you that 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. Whether killing off suspects or romancing a bad boy, Wendy is equally adept at making the readers care and become so engrossed in her plots as to make them feel they're actually there, experiencing it all.

2010 is shaping up to be an exciting year for her, with the launch of a brand new thriller trilogy from Harper's AVON BOOKS imprint. The first title, Live to Tell, is a March release (it released on Feb 23rd, according to Amazon- so buy your copy today!), to be followed later in the year by SCARED TO DEATH and, in 2011, HELL TO PAY.

This the award-winning author of more than seventy novels lives in the New York City suburbs with her husband of seventeen years and their two children.

February 20, 2010

I’m writing this on board a Cayman Airways flight home to JFK, having just spent a  largely tech-free week on—well, not a desert island, and not a deserted island, but an island just the same—inherently isolated, as islands tend to be, and filled with decadent distractions that don’t involve chargers or remotes. 

Thanks to my Caribbean exile, I honestly have no idea whether Brad and Angelina have split, as was the rumor before I flew away, though I suspect it won’t be long after landing before I find out. 

Funny, in this Facebook/Twitter-frenzied era, how easy it is to get swept, even unwillingly, into the media-trumpeted details of total strangers’ lives—and how blessedly easy it is to forget about them when you’re unplugged. Brangelina, Michael Jackson’s doctor, John Mayer, Snooki and the Situation…

Who cares? Not me. Not when I’m with my family, and there’s a sunlit turquoise sea at my doorstep and a good book in my beach bag.

But one afternoon while wandering through the resort lobby, I heard that a plane had hit a building back in America. Being from New York, I experienced a fleeting, familiar wave of worry and made it my business to swiftly uncover the who-what-when-where-why.

While getting the update, I was also treated to a laughably dire weather forecast from back home—impending doom; I mean, more snow—in FEBRUARY, in the northeast, no less. Imagine.  And, just before I unplugged, I was privy to even more urgent breaking news: Tiger Woods was going to be speaking publically within the next 24 hours, expected to apologize for having sex with a women who weren’t his wife.

Because I also am not his wife, I really don’t think he owes me an apology. In fact, I pretty much don’t care what Tiger Woods does, or with whom.

I just hope I’ll keep that perspective in mind once I get back to the “real world,” where I’ll once again be bombarded by television and tabloid and radio and internet news every waking hour—and the next thing I know, there will be breaking news crawls running across my dreams. 

~ Wendy Corsi Staub
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I know - just turn off the TV and the computer for a couple of days and it's like time slows down immeasurably! I love it... and hate it, at the same time. Luckily, books also have the magic of making time fly by, like Wendy's latest Live to Tell. Here's the snynopsis :

Staub (Dead Before Dark) follows an innocuous stuffed animal into a widening spiral of intrigue in this absorbing series launch. Newly single mom Lauren Walsh asks her ex, Nick, to look for their daughter's toy rabbit in the lost and found at Grand Central Station. In the heart of Manhattan, Congressman Garvey Quinn is riding a popularity wave that could carry him to the White House-but only if he can keep a certain dark secret from bubbling into public view. And in a small Connecticut town, Elsa and Brett Cavalon are still grieving 14 years after their son was kidnapped from their backyard. The connections among these troubled families are slow to reveal themselves, but once Staub's brilliant characterizations and top-notch narrative skills grab hold, they don't let go.

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