LOVE IS MURDER Loves Alexander & Lyons As Novelists Win Reader Awards

Authors Tasha Alexander and CJ Lyons walked away big winners recently at the prestigious LOVE IS MURDER Book Conference Readers Choice Awards.
Alexander‘s A FATAL WALTZ was voted “Best Historical” published in 2008. Readers selected Lyons’ best-selling LIFELINES as “Best First Novel” for 2008.
“Stunned doesn’t begin to describe h ow I felt,” said Alexander, who writes the highly acclaimed Lady Emily Ashton series set in Victorian England. A FATAL WALTZ is the third book in the series. “Love Is Murder is a sentimental favorite for me when it comes to conferences—because it was the first one I went to after my first book sold. And to win something voted on by readers feels amazing.” Alexander’s book has also been nominated for the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award.

Lyons, too, was excited to win her award.
“I’m so thrilled to receive the Reader’s Choice Award for Best First Novel from the Love is Murder attendees,” said Lyons. “It’s quite an=2 0honor, especially as LIFELINES is such a cross-genre novel, breaking new ground as a fast-paced medical thriller told from the point of view of the women of Pittsburgh’s Angels of Mercy’s ER. I can only hope that readers continue to enjoy the series.”

Lyons’ current book is WARNING SIGNS, the sequel to LIFELINES, both from Penguin Berkley. Alexander’s A FATAL WALTZ will be re-released in June in paperback by Harper/Morrow. Her next new release in the Lady Emily Ashton series—TEARS OF PEARL—will be published in September, her first under the St. Martin’s Minotaur imprint.

Alexander and Lyons are represented by veteran literary agent Anne Hawkins of the New York-based John Hawkins & Associates ..
“The chance to work with novelists Tasha Alexander and CJ Lyons are why I love my job,” said Hawkins. “Both are so talented, yet each applies her creativity in such a wildly different way: Tasha, in the aristocratic milieu of Victorian England and CJ in the gritty reality of a contemporary inner city hospital. Better still, these two women continue to learn and grow as professional writers, making each new book their best one yet, and that’s how successful careers are built. I’m just delighted to be part of the process.”