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My First Sale by Liz Maverick

lizmaverick_110_200px.jpgBestselling, award-winning author Liz Maverick is a novelist, adventurer and odd jobs specialist whose contract assignments have taken her from driving trucks in Antarctica to working behind the scenes on reality TV shows in Hollywood. She holds a BS from UC Berkeley, a CPA, and an MBA from UCLA.

Liz is known for writing out-of-the-box romance novels with fast-paced, unique plots and lots of kick-butt action. Her previous works include Cosmopolitan Magazine Book Club Pick What a Girl Wants, PRISM/Daphne finalist The Shadow Runners, Golden Leaf/Quill winner Crimson Rogue, and Waldenbooks/B&N bestseller Crimson City, the first book in the multi-author continuity series she created for Dorchester Publishing. Her newest project is Wired, the launch title for Dorchester’s innovative new Shomi line.

Liz and her books have been featured on Fox’s Geraldo at Large and in USA Today, Cosmopolitan Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Toronto Star, and more.

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Wired (Shomi)The story of my first sale is full of madcap adventures, drunken brawls at publishing parties, and epic journeys across desert sands in search of a FedEx box five …

REVIEW: Wired by Liz Maverick

Dear Ms. Maverick:

Wired (Shomi)I was excited about reading this book as it was the first in Dorchester’s new speculative romance line, Shomi. The promise was that Shomi books would feature cutting edge speculative fiction within the romance construct and Wired delivered on that promise.

L. Roxanne Zaborovsky is on a mission to go to the 7-11 when her world is disrupted by two men: one from her past and one from her future. Mason Merrick and Leonardo Kaysar. both want something from Roxanne. She’s not sure what it is and she’s not sure who to trust. Mason has a wild story to tell her that involves time travel, computer code, and alternate realities, urging her to believe in him. Leonardo shows her that Mason will do or say anything to get Roxanne to do as Mason says. In the end, Roxanne must believe in herself, which has always been the problem.

Roxanne is forced to relive small segments of her life and each time, something different happens. Sometimes she’ll wake up and find something completely new, from her wardrobe to her living companion. And …