2009 CAPA Award finalist
MONA LISA DARKENING is a finalist in The Romance Studio’s 2009 CAPA Awards for Fantasy Erotic Romance.

Romantic Times 2009 Reviewers’ Choice Award finalist
MONA LISA DARKENING is a Romantic Times 2009 best Erotic Fiction nominee!

PRISM Award Winner
MONA LISA CRAVING is the 2009 PRISM Award winner in Dark Paranormal!

INTERVIEW with Amberkatze’s Book Blog - WIN a free copy of MONA LISA DARKENING
Berkley is giving away 2 free copies of MONA LISA DARKENING, to U.S. residents only.
Click here to post a comment and enter the contest.

2 ACTING AWARDS for Son
Sunny’s 11-year-old son, Michael Chen, has garnered 2 acting awards
- Special Jury Prize for New Talent to Watch in Acting/2009 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
- Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting/2009 Nashville Film Festival
Link to HOLLYWOOD REPORTER article.

Official Movie Trailer
Click here to view the official movie trailor for the film Michael Chen (Sunny’s son) stars in. Children of Invention, a Sundance Film, and Special Jury Award winner of the SFIAA Film Festival.

2009 Sundance Film Festival
Sunny’s husband and son just returned from Sundance, which they say was fun and fabulous. Below is the Sundance Channel Studio’s interview with the cast and director of Children of Invention, which is a 2009 Sundance Film Festival official selection in the Spectrum category. Includes two short scenes from the movie.

Son’s film
More info in Sunny’s son, Michael, and the feature film he is starring in. Film title has been changed to “Children of Invention.” Click here to view website. Click here to view more photos of the film shoot (near bottom of page) .

New release date for LUCINDA, DANGEROUSLY
Pushed to October 2009.

PRISM Winner in 3 categories
I am so amazed to learn that I am a PRISM Award winner. Not just in one but three categories!
MONA LISA BLOSSOMING won first place for best Erotica/Romantica.
OVER THE MOON won first place for best novella.
And LUCINDA, DARKLY won 2nd place in fantasy.

Interview with Michelle Lauren
Click here to view.

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 AWAKENING
- MONA LISA CRAVING
- MONA LISA DARKENING
- LUCINDA, DARKLY
- OVER THE MOON
- SKIN ON SKIN

eReader.com
- MONA LISA AWAKENING
- MONA LISA BLOSSOMING
- MONA LISA CRAVING
- LUCINDA, DARKLY

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, DANGEROUSLY, out in October ‘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 received 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

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

“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
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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.
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Woodstock Times
“Erotic Awakening: Doctor wife of author Da Chen tosses hat in the literary ring with steamy dark fantasy.”
View Article

Guest blogger at Michelle Lauren’s Blog

Bitten by Books Interview
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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
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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