Girls gotta have fun!

Check out the good time I had joking around with Jill Monroe and Gena Showalter on their Author Talk show!

LIFELINES tour wrap-up

One book, eight weeks, thirteen cities….

Hey, I'm back! Home sweet home for three whole weeks, yeah! On the plane back home, I was reflecting on some of the stats from my LIFELINES book tour.

Number of:

Flights taken: 25
Pieces of luggage lost: 0
Miles driven: 1927

Trains: 8
Buses: 6
Boats: 1
Hospitals visited: 2
Speeches/panels/workshops given: 15
TV/video interviews: 5
Print interviews: 8
"Live" Signings: 16
"Drive-by" Signings: 12
Conference booksellers sold out of LIFELINES: 100%
Friends old and new met: too many to count!!!

Thanks to everyone who made my first ever tour and first ever book release such a huge success!!!
CJ

Virtual LIFELINES

Had a wonderful chat with the ladies of The Women of Mystery Bookclub the other night and they were kind enough to send this great picture:

The Women of Mystery Book Club in West Monroe, Louisiana
Pictured are Back Row left to right: Cynthia Malone, Laveda Clark, Linda Hill
Front row left to right: Beth Cornelison, Sheila Stracner, Jennelle Brulte

Mega-thanks to Beth Cornelison for inviting me and sending the pix!!!
CJ

More LIFELINES sightings...

Larissa Ione took LIFELINES camping with her and wrote:

I finished Lifelines, and loved it! Now I’m DYING for the next one...Excellent book, lady – totally AMAZING debut! Congrats!

As promised, I’m sending proof that I read Lifelines while camping! It
annoyed the hell out of my husband, who kept saying I needed to do things like hike. Pfft. I was just way to engrossed in the book!

And a sighting from Toni McGee Causey in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...


Finally, one more from the Brazilian rainforest, courtesy of Leighton Gage:


Feel free to send me your pictures of any sightings of LIFELINES!




Thanks for reading,
CJ

LIFELINES international!

Leighton Gage, a fantastically talented crime writer from Brazil and author of Blood of the Wicked, sent me these pictures of LIFELINES in Sao Paulo.




Pretty cool, eh?

Feel free to send me pictures of you and your copy of LIFELINES--I'll enter you into a special contest and post them here!
CJ

LIFELINES scores a perfect 10!

In addition to the accolades LIFELINES has received from Publisher's Weekly, The Baltimore Sun, and a Top Pick from Romantic Times, LIFELINES has scored a Perfect 10 from Romance Reviews Today!

The writing, storyline, descriptions, and characterizations are simply superb...a gritty, breathtaking, nail-chewing wild ride in and about Pittsburgh.

I found it difficult to put this book down. It is better than any medical story I have ever read and rivals the best in the movies and television. At the climax, readers will be hanging on by their fingertips. Emotions run high, and debut author C. J. Lyons blends everything and everyone seamlessly in this riveting drama. I award this must-read novel a Perfect 10.

~Vi Janaway, Romance Reviews Today

For the entire review, click here.

LIFELINES is available in stores everywhere now.

CJ on Live TV!

Check it out--is that really me?

Click here, scroll down click on Author CJ Lyons.

Go ahead and laugh, I know I did!

What fun to go on live TV--no preparation, just have a seat, here's your mic, and go!!! Good thing I enjoy improvising, lol!