WARNING SIGNS is here!

Hi everyone! My second book, WARNING SIGNS, is out in stores now!

Let me know if you spot it at your favorite bookstore--or better yet, what you think of it after you read it!

And, of course, tell your friends about both LIFELINES and WARNING SIGNS--remember, they'll be in the General Fiction and Literature section of the bookstore, right near Moby Dick, lol!

Thanks for helping to spread the word!
CJ

WARNING SIGNS book video

Coming January 27th, look for WARNING SIGNS in the general fiction/literature section of your favorite bookstore:

WARNING SIGNS, first review!

WARNING SIGNS
C.J. Lyons
Jove, Feb 2009, $7.99
ISBN: 9780515145830

This exhilarating medical thriller gets the blood pumping as readers will admire and root for courageous Amanda....This is a terrific thriller and fans of Michael Palmer will enjoy this fine tale of a brave but scared medical student in trouble.
—The Mystery Gazette, Dec. 15, 2008

WARNING SIGNS cover art is here!!!

And it's gorgeous!

Thank you, everyone in the art department at Berkley/Jove, you guys rock!

Mark your calenders, WARNING SIGNS will be out January 27, 2009. Or you can pre-order here.

Talk about Sex!

Thought that would get your attention, lol! Jordan Dane, Toni McGee Causey, Roxanne St. Clair, St. Martin's Publisher Matthew Shear and I did a panel at RWA National Conference called Sex and the Single Title.

It was in one of the larger rooms (I'm told there was seating for 75) but we had folks sitting on the floor, standing in the back, it was jam packed and one of the most talked about (and praised!) sessions of the conference....and now it's highlighted in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle:

Writing sex scenes

Meanwhile, behind the doors of a nearby conference workshop, a panel of best-selling authors gave tips on how to write sex scenes - explicit and otherwise. Among their observations:

-- "A sex scene is an action scene," said Toni McGee Causey. Her latest "white-trash romance" is "Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day."

-- "Younger romance readers have a higher tolerance for sex," according to editor Matthew Scheer of St. Martin's Press.

-- "It doesn't need to be a how-to guide," said Roxanne St. Claire, author of the Bullet Catchers trilogy. "A sex scene must be emotionally true to character - and it has to make the conflict worse."

Audience questions ran to the technical. This one busted up the room: "Do you practice your love scenes before you write them?" an aspiring author asked.

"Well, I don't recommend the spin cycle," Causey quipped.

Fellow panelist CJ Lyons, who writes medical-suspense, had a quick rejoinder. "I told you!" she said. "It's the dryer, on low."

Yes, probably the first and last time I'll ever get the last word in a conversation with Toni!!!

Read the entire article here and enjoy!
CJ

New CJ Lyons video!

My cup...er, to-be-read-pile, overfloweth

So, before I left for TFest, I took a week off and gave myself the ultimate treat: a reading binge!! (If I sound like a book junkie, well, yes, Hi, I'm CJ and I love books...)

Here are the ones I indulged in that week:









BUT....here are the ones I came home with and that now sit tempting me everyday:

Oh my, just a taste, please--but once I start a book, I know the perils, it's so hard to stop!

Anyone else with this problem?

Hmmm....maybe I could give up cleaning the house to find more time to fit in reading? Whoops, I already do that to find more time to write!