Comments on: My First Sale by Deirdre Martin

By: Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary » REVIEW: Power Play by Deirdre Martin

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:35:58 +0000

[...] Light had him on as a guest star and now he has a recurring role. Pretty funny. I saw in your first sale letter that you had wrote for Soap Opera digest and it shows. This story reeks of [...]

By: Brooke

Brooke — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:32:51 +0000

Love her! Her sports heroes were (i think) the first ones i read…and have since had me hooked. I seek them out. The sports Alpha male is a nice change from the military special op or the paranormal animal-man.

Her books are some of my keepers. Wish they would come out quicker *wink*!!!

By: Leeann Burke

Leeann Burke — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:23:53 +0000

Great story! I’ll have to pull out her books from my to be read pile and start reading her books.

By: Jill Sorenson

Jill Sorenson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:56:58 +0000

Cool! I love sports heroes!!! Kudos to you for not listening to those naysayers. I have a book coming out next year with a professional surfer hero, so I’m very encouraged by your story. Here’s to unconventional characters and doing it your own way!

Well played, Mz. Martin. The Blades series sounds great.

By: Patty L.

Patty L. — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:22:23 +0000

I love your books. I actually looked for your latest last weekend at Borders and was told that I had to wait till this weekend to pick it up.

Your first sale story is great and you have such and interesting past.

By: Diana Holquist

Diana Holquist — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:19:45 +0000

Love the story.

I just bought my copy of Power Play and can’t wait, although Body Check will always be my favorite Deirdre Martin no matter what. My copy of Body Check is dog-eared from re-reading and studying. No aspiring novelist could do better than read (and reread and reread) Body Check to see how contemporary romance is done right. Conflict is gorgeous, characters excellent. But what always, always gets me about a Deirdre Martin book is the pacing. It’s very sophisticated in a way that very few authors can achieve. Thank heavens for that agent (and Berkley) for taking that chance on an unknown….

By: Ellen Hartman

Ellen Hartman — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:55:32 +0000

Hee. I wrote a poem that created an analogy between my love for my high school crush and the love between Achilles and Patroclus. It’s a masterpiece.

Deirdre, thanks for sharing your first sale. As you know, I love the Blades series! I hope you abandoned the dinner and just had Ben and Jerry’s. That’s the way to celebrate!

By: Gennita Low

Gennita Low — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:29:19 +0000

I love the “plastic bag flapping in the wind” ;-). I went through that phase too, right after i wrote about me and Donny Osmond on a deserted island.

Good advice and sales story, Deirdre. We should always write the stories that call to us.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:36:36 +0000

I love the choice of celebratory ice cream. And the fact that you decided to switch from poetry to fiction!

By: Corrine

Corrine — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:29:15 +0000

That’s a great story. I’ve never actually read Deirdre Martin, but I will be receiving Body Check in the mail within the next few weeks, and this makes me even more excited to read it.