Sunny

August e-Newsletter
August’s newsletter has some photos at the bottom of Sunny’s son during his film shoot. Click here to view.

Interview with Michelle Lauren
Click here to view.

Contest Win
What a kick! MONA LISA BLOSSOMING won the Passionate Plume Award for best paranormal!

Son Starring in Independant Movie
More great news, acting-wise. Sunny’s 10-year-old son landed a leading role in The Kids are Alright, an independant movie written and directed by Tse Chun. Click here for more details on film. Shooting will take place in July in New York and Boston.

Bank of America TV Commercial
Life is getting fun. Sunny and her family just shot a Bank of America TV commercial, playing Dodgers fans. Should be playing throughout this summer, likely on the west coast.

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK RE-ISSUES of the Mona Lisa series coming this fall.
~ October 7, 2008 - Mona Lisa Awakening
~ November 4, 2008 - Mona Lisa Blossoming
~ December 2008 - Mona Lisa Craving
~ January 2009 - Mona Lisa Darkening (new release)

Sunny is featured in RWR’s (Romance Writers Report) April 2008 “Writers on Writing” column. Here’s the link to article. Need to be a RWA member to view. Click here.

MONA LISA BLOSSOMING is a Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence finalist in erotic romance!

“Mona Lisa Three” novella in OVER THE MOON is a 2008 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence finalist!

ON THE PROWL is the 2007 PEARL award winner for best paranormal anthology!
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Sunny is featured in Simply Romance Reviews’ January Author Spotlight. Click here to view.

Available as eBooks. Here’s the list:
Mobipocket.com
- MONA LISA CRAVING
- OVER THE MOON
- SKIN ON SKIN
…and all 3 are bestsellers there, isn’t that sweet!

eReader.com
- MONA LISA CRAVING

Fictionwise.com
- ON THE PROWL
- OVER THE MOON
- SKIN ON SKIN

eBookMall.com
- THE HARD STUFF
- SKIN ON SKIN
- OVER THE MOON

October 29, 2007 Publishers Weekly. Read about the 2007 Quill Awards which Sunny attended with her husband, Da Chen, who was a finalist in the general fiction category. Held at Lincoln Center and televised October 27th on NBC.
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Publishers Weekly’s photos of the 3rd annual Quill Awards.
Click the thumbnails on the left for a larger view of PW’s 2 pages of photos of the event. Sunny & Da are on the 2nd page, bottom left.

Also, some personal photos from the Quills just posted.

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Another 2-book deal with Berkley for MONA LISA DARKENING , release date January ‘09, and LUCINDA, DEADLY, also out in ‘09.

ON THE PROWL is a USA Today bestseller and hit the New York Times extended list.
LUCINDA, DARKLY is a national bestseller. #3 on Borders’ romance trade paperback bestseller list, #5 at Barnes & Noble, and #7 on BookScan’s fantasy bestselling list.

LUCINDA, DARKLY got a 4-1/2 Star TOP PICK review from Romantic Times.

A DOUBLE FINALIST in the Desert Rose 2008 GOLDEN QUILL AWARDS
- MONA LISA BLOSSOMING in the Erotic category
- LUCINDA, DARKLY in the Fantasy, Sci Fi, Futuristic category

LUCINDA, DARKLY
is a 2007 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award nominee in Paranormal/Fantasy/Sci-Fi Erotic Romance.

MONA LISA AWAKENING
won the Award of Excellence, erotic romance category
won the Write Touch Readers’ Award, erotica/romantica category
won New Jersey Romance Writers’ Golden Leaf Award , best paranormal

MONA LISA AWAKENING
is a 2007 PRISM finalist, 2nd place winner
a National Readers’ Choice Award double finalist
& a Golden Quill Awards double finalist

MONA LISA BLOSSOMING is a
Romance Reviews Today Erotic La Grande Mort nominee for Best Book of the Year
in the catetory of paranormal romance

BROTHERS by Sunny’s husband Da Chen is a 2006 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by
Washington Post
San Francisco Chronicle
Publishers Weekly
Kirkus Reviews

“Chinatown” in THE HARD STUFF
won New Jersey Romance Writers’ 2006 Golden Leaf Award for best novella

“ROMANCE & NAUGHTY NOVELS”
“Sunny, coauthor of THE HARD STUFF, is part of the fastest growing niche in female fiction?erotic romance.”
Geraldo At Large

On The Money “HARDCORE” segment about erotic romance novels going mainstream
featuring Romantic Times Magazine CEO/founder Kathryn Falk, Kensington editor Audrey LaFehr, and Sunny
CNBC

“NAUGHTY NOVELS”
“Sunny…is a stay at home mother of two. But when she writes, her alter ego takes over.”
View Transcript
Boston Channel 7 News, NBC

Sunny and her husband Da Chen interviewed by host Joe Donahue
NPR’s WAMC Round Table

July 2007 issue of Romantic Times. Kathryn Falk’s To Booklovers P. 4 pictures of Sunny with Kathryn.
View the Article (PDF, opens in a new window)

“Celebrating the Written Word”
Authors Sunny and Da Chen at CMF Readers and Writers Series
- Catskill Mountain Region GUIDE
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“Write of Passage” for Sunny & Da Chen
- Daily Freeman
View the Article (Picture opens in a new window)
Read the Article online

Feature in the November issue of Hudson Valley Magazine
A Couple of Best-Sellers
His poignant memoirs have captivated the world. Her racy romances keep readers up late at night. Da Chen and his wife, Sunny of Highland, tell us about their rapid rise up the literary ladder.
By Olivia J. Abel

“Shaping History” - Sun Valley Writers’ Conference
by The Wood River Journal
View Article

Channel 7 News, Boston, NBC
“Sunny…is a stay at home mother of two. But when she writes, her alter ego takes over.”
View Transcript

To Booklovers…
From Kathryn Falk, Lady of Barrow
Sunny & Da’s Book Party

…While in New York recently, I attended the book party of book parties in Greenwich Village—in celebration of Sunny’s Mona Lisa Awakening (Berkley) and her husband Da Chen’s book, Brothers (Crown), both October releases. The party was hosted by Da’s former boss and family friend, Robert S Pirie, the previous president and CEO of the investment banking firm Rothchilds Inc. and the scion of Chicago’s Carson Scott Pirie department stores fortune. Imagine drinking
champagne and nibbling Asian fusion hors d’oeuvres in a beautiful 1870 Manhattan townhouse while standing in front of original art by Toulouse-Lautrec, Thomas Eakins and Degas.

Toute le publishing was there. Guests at the lovely party for this special couple included Hilary Sares, Sunny’s Kensington editor; Cindy Hwang, her Berkley editor; Jenny Frost, president of Crown Publishing Group; Sara Nelson, Publishers Weekly editor-in-chief; and Jill Lamar, Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers director. Da’s editor, Laura Geringer of Laura Geringer Books (HarperCollins), and his publisher, Shaye Areheart, also attended.

Rounding out the publishing crowd were Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden; Chloe Breyer, the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; and author and candidate for New York state governor Malachy McCourt. Kenneth and I had a grand time. The evening proved that books and book people do inspire romantic times.

Romantic Times BOOKreviews December 2006 issue, page 4

Chronogram “Signature Pieces”
Segment on Page 3. Sunny and her husband Da Chen’s brush calligraphy signature on Page 1.
View chronogram

Woodstock Times
“Erotic Awakening: Doctor wife of author Da Chen tosses hat in the literary ring with steamy dark fantasy.”
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Interview with Michelle Lauren
Click here to view.

Guest blogger at Shiloh Walker’s VAMP AND SCAMPS BLOG.

PNR’s feature interview with Sunny. To view, click here.

Sunny talks about her journey from Physician to Writer, guest blogging at Fresh Fiction.
View Blog

Interview on author and Fresh Fiction columnist Marta Acosta’s blog.
View Interview

Guest blogger at Romance Readers at Heart
View Blog

Being good and bad on Shiloh Walker’s Blog, Vamp & Scamps. Interview - Part 1
Being naughty, naughty in Interview - Part 2

Howling at the moon with Howler’s
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Romping with Candace Havens on her livejournal blog