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M.J. Rose, is the author of four novels, Lip Service, In Fidelity, Flesh Tones and Sheet Music. She also is a contributor to Writer's Digest, Poets and Writers, Oprah Magazine, The Readerville Journal and Pages.
Rose is also the co-author with Angela Adair Hoy of How to Publish and Promote Online, and with Doug Clegg of Buzz Your Book. Getting published has been an adventure for Rose who self-published Lip Service late in 1998 after several traditional publishers turned it down. Editors had loved it, but didn't know how to position it or market it since it didn't fit into any one genre.
Frustrated, but curious and convinced that there was a readership for her work, she set up a web site where readers could download her book for $9.95 and began to seriously market the novel on the Internet.
After selling over 2500 copies (in both electronic and trade paper format) Lip Service became the first e-book and the first self-published novel chosen by the LiteraryGuild/Doubleday Book Club as well as being the first e-book to go on to be published by a mainstream New York publishing house.
Rose has since been called the "poster girl" of e-publishing by Time magazine and has been profiled in Forbes, The New York Times, Business 2.0, Working Woman, Newsweek and New York Magazine.
Lip Service has been published in seven countries. In Fidelity is in its fourth printing and was chosen by Cosmopolitan Magazine as the July 2001 Book of the Month.
Rose has appeared on The Today Show, Fox News, The Jim Lehrer NewsHour, and features on her have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, including USAToday, Stern, L'Official, Poets and Writers and Publishers Weekly.
Rose graduated from Syracuse University and spent the '80s in advertising. She was the Creative Director of Rosenfeld Sirowitz and Lawson and she has a commercial in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
She lives in Connecticut with Doug Scofield, a composer, and their very spoiled dog, Winka. Her official website is http://www.mjrose.com
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Sheet Music
Grief-stricken Justine Pagett fled to Paris after her mother’s death, but scandal forces her back to the States to redeem her tarnished reputation as a journalist. Commissioned to write a piece on the eccentric classical composer Sophie DeLyon, Justine finds herself part of a mysterious deception. At Euphonia, the exclusive institution DeLyon created to nurture America’s most gifted music prodigies, a malevolent presence is composing a deadly work. Threatening cybermessages meant to intimidate convince a determined Justine that fascinating secrets await her. But when Sophie suddenly disappears, Justine’s assignment to mine the story behind the legend becomes an even greater challenge.
The disharmonious DeLyon family seems more interested in Sophie’s estate than in her artistic legacy, and a group of devoted fans is fiercely defending the name of the enigmatic genius. Wrestling with her own demons while searching for the truth, Justine is clear about one thing: Someone is orchestrating a deadly deceit . . . from which no one will emerge unscathed.
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M.J. Rose's Summer Reading List
The Probable Future
by Alice Hoffman
Hoffman is one of my favorite authors and this new one is getting great word of mouth already. Hoffman's brand of magic is so charming and dark at the same time I find it irresistible. Not only are her characters rich and rewarding, but her plots are so uniquely her own. I admire her as a writer for having such a clear vision of a certain kind of world and as a reader I'm grateful to her.
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
I read an expert of this book and Pow! Wham! Wow! Kaboom! I was hooked and immediately got it to take on vacation. Art, the Church, Paris - all favorite subjects of mine. Plus Browns' devilishly clever code work. Of course it's a bestseller. I've read all of Brown's books and he deserves every bit of attention he is finally getting.
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
Every summer I try to read at least one backlist book that I've been remiss about. This summer, it's Smith. I'm reading this for a book club I belong to.
The Confessor
by Daniel Silva
There is not a single Silva I've missed. His combination of suspense and a hero with an art background is right up my alley. Unlike the typical suspense author, Silva's characters leap off the page and ring so true to life. He's an author understands pacing better than anyone out there and you just rip through the pages. At least I do.
The Last Nazi
by Stan Pottinger
Pottinger kept me up for two night in a row with his breakthrough first bestseller, The Fourth Procedure. From what I've heard this book is not only fascinating and a great read, but one of those stories you thank God is only fiction and not fact.
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