Talk About My Favorite Authors: Meeting Diana Holquist!

Today I went to Central Park today for the New York Book Festival. I went with my aunt and mother because Diana Holquist annouced that her book Sexiest Man Alive won the New York Book Festival Romance Award and she would be coming to NYC. She did a reading in Central Park at 2:30 on Saturday, June 28th, followed by a book signing. The event was being held in front of the Naumburg Bandshell, which is located near the Bethesda Fountain. Enter the park at 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue and keep veering left. The site is about a half-mile in to the park and there were face painting and lots o' vendors. I was so excited yet very shy because I was meeting one of my favorite authors in person but I loved that I got to meet Diana and her beautiful daughter who I also met. I took a couple of pictures of us together and Diana signed both her books that I brought with me in the hopes of getting her to sign them. My aunt was awesome enough to get a couple of videos of Diana Holquist reading parts of her second book Sexiest Man Alive which won the award.

The first two books in her One True Love Trilogy series are really good reads that everyone should pick up. I loved reading them and I couldn't put them down until I was finished with them. I also found out that her next book in the series Hungry for More is coming out in September and I can't wait to read the conclusion for this series. Here is the description of the books from the back cover and pictures:

MAKE ME A MATCH $ 6.50 (Book 1)(353 Pages)

Cecelia Burns’s To-Do List:

1. Pick out wedding dress and ignore psychic sister who says I’m marrying the wrong guy.

2. Really ignore her when she says the right guy is some stranger named Finn Concord, who’s dying, and this is my last chance to experience my One True Love of a lifetime. Ever.

3. Okay, fine. Find this Finn guy, tell him he’s dying, and split. Quick.

4. Stop staring at him…even though he does look pretty good for a guy who’s on his last legs. Oh god, those unforgettable eyes…those strong arms. And those kissable lips…

5. Take a deep breath and remember that psychics lie too, just like everyone else.

Then again, maybe there is something to this One True Love business after all. There’s only one way to find out…

SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $ 6.99 (Book 2)(336 Pages)

Shy No More Worksheet
Name: Jasmine Burns

Imagine the person who intimidates you. Naked.

I’m intimidated by Josh Toby, the world’s biggest movie star. Who has to imagine him naked? I’ve seen it on a forty-foot screen.

Breathe deep.

As Josh’s costume designer, I’m supposed to dress him. And undress him. Oh, and my psychic sister Amy, who has never been wrong, named him my One True Love. Breathing is completely out of the question.

Ask for what you want.

What I want is for him to stop being so…irresistible! I want not to fall in love with a man who’s stalked by the paparazzi and whose washboard abs that could cut glass.

Believe you can do what needs to be done. Then do it.

So, all I have to do is believe I can resist Josh Toby. Resist those deep violet eyes, those strong, muscular arms, and the way he makes me feel like the only woman on earth. Couldn’t be easier. Yeah right…

3 comments:

Diana CastillejaSunday, June 29, 2008 at 12:22:00 PM EDT
Diana H. is a lovely lady! I've met her, albeit briefly at RWA. It looks like you had a great time!
Phoebe JordanSunday, June 29, 2008 at 12:24:00 PM EDT
I had a great time Diana!
Diana HolquistSunday, June 29, 2008 at 11:38:00 PM EDT
Wow, lots of Diana's hanging out here!

Thanks so much for posting this blog. You're too nice. And you didn't tell me you write! Shame on you.

I hope we'll meet again so we can talk some more.

--Diana

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