Author Deborah Coonts

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MOBILE WEBSITE ONLINE:

• Information and excerpts from all my books is available via a mobile website format here: www.deborahcoonts.com/mobile/ Please share this link (or this QR code with the mobile site link) with those you think would enjoy a taste of Lucky's adventures. Appreciate it!

Book Release News:

• LUCKY IN LOVE is a novella released as an e-book on January 17, 2012. This is the first of a series of novellas to be published in e-book format.

• SO DAMN LUCKY, Lucky O'Toole's third Las Vegas adventure, is scheduled to hit bookstores in hard cover on February 28, 2012.

• LUCKY SHORTS are a handful of short stories I wrote featuring Lucky and some of the characters you meet in my novels. I've uploaded them to this site (see title links below right)

• LUCKY STIFF was released in paperback on November 29, 2011.

• WANNA GET LUCKY? was released in paperback on February 1, 2011.

• LUCKY STIFF, Lucky O'Toole's second Las Vegas adventure, hit bookstores in hard cover on February 15, 2011.

Book Review News:

The reviews are coming in for LUCKY STIFF, and my second tale featuring Lucky O'Toole has pulled in starred reviews from both Booklist and the Library Journal. And Kirkus calls LUCKY STIFF "lively and endearingly wacky."

WGL?: NYT NOTABLE CRIME NOVEL OF 2010— WANNA GET LUCKY? was featured in New York Times Book Review columnist Marilyn Stasio's column of December 5, as one of the "notable crime novels of 2010."

GREAT PIECE ABOUT DEBORAH IN VEGAS SEVEN MAGAZINE— Titled "Making Her Own Luck," writer Richard Abowitz talks happy endings and more with Deborah. And what a great photo by Anthony Mair!

NICE INTERVIEW WITH DEBORAH IN THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL—Catching up with Deborah via cell phone while she was working the New York City Book Expo America event, writer John Przybys assembles an insightful piece on Deborah's journey to publication.

WANNA GET LUCKY? IS REVIEWED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, BY KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND BY BOOKLIST— Three hard nuts to crack...and Deborah's fun little story finds favor with all three.

RADIO INTEVIEW ON RADIO KKLZ IN LAS VEGAS— Listen to the audio file.

Book Award News:

RITA FINALIST— Sweet! WANNA GET LUCKY? is a finalist for two RITA awards (Romance Writers): best first novel and best novel with a strong romantic element.

INDIE NEXT LIST— Great news! WANNA GET LUCKY? was chosen as one of the May 2010 Indie Next List – “Great Reads from Booksellers You Trust!” How cool is that?! It will be included in a flyer in the April Red Box Mailing, which goes out to Indie Bound retailers. A listing will also appear in the April 1st issue of Bookselling This Week. You can see on the IndieBound website in May.

WANNA GET LUCKY DAY— May 11, 2010 has been proclaimed Wanna Get Lucky? Day by Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman! See the official proclamation...Vegas is soooo fun! Where else could this happen?

Book Tour Schedule:

Dates, times and places are posted here for my Promo Book Tours.
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	SO DAMN LUCKY Book Tour Event Dates and Places
FEB 28	Houston—Book launch at Murder by the Book. (6:30 pm)
FEB 29	Dallas—A Real Bookstore (Allen; Drinks at 6; Author talks at 7 pm)
MAR 5	Scottsdale—Poisoned Pen (7:00 pm) with author Lisa Lutz
MAR 10	Los Angeles—Mysteries to Die For (afternoon event)
MAR 11	Los Angeles—Mysterious Galaxy (Redondo Beach; 2:30 pm)
MAR 15	Denver—Tattered Cover (7:00 pm tentative)
MAR 18	Austin—Book People (4:00 pm) with Kira Piekoff
MAR 28 - APR 1	Sacramento—Left Coast Crime Conference (panelist)

GIFT A (personalized) BOOK

If you'd like to gift a personalized copy of one of my books, I'd be glad to do that! On the "Buy Deb's Books" page is a BUY NOW link and instructions for buying it directly from me.