July, 2006 News/Events

Did you know that Falling Roses was released one year ago on July 18, 2005? Happy Release Date Falling Roses!!

Do you want to know where I get the wallpaper from, where I get the animated graphics from? Check out my Link Page.

Do you want to link to my site? Would you like a banner to use on yours? Just right click and do a save as. Please write me at rosemariepiemonte@yahoo.com so that I know you're taking it and so that we can trade links. More banners will be released in the future on its own web page.

Are you someone in need of starting your own website? Do you need help with your website? Do you need a webmaster? Have you bought a package and now need help placing your web pages together? Email me.

That's right. Autographed copies of Falling Roses are now being carried on the Local Author shelf at Frugal Muse Books, 7511 Lemont Road, Darien, IL 60561

Autographed copies are also available through Back of the Room. Click on the Link Below.

Wood Grove Relay for Life Photos from photographer Kate Dougherty. Jim Durkin and I are around the 100th photo. Click Here

If you missed the live show, you can find it archived by clicking on the picture link. Or go straight Here. Right click to save to your computer.

Rose Piemonte pens an exciting romantic thriller with her first novel, Falling Roses.

A teenager gets hit by a car and spends two months in a coma. A rock star visits the hospital to visit sick children and becomes enamored with this comatose beauty. The fairytale comes true, albeit with some deadly twists and turns. Roses characters have depth, warmth, charm, and plenty of rock and roll. If it weren't for the doings of the evil Bernadette and her wacko half brother, Johnny and Gabrielle could live happily ever after. You'll have to read the book to find out more! Enjoy the journey...

The City of Chicago will air the show on Thursday, July 27 on Channel 25 @ 10 p.m. & Friday, July 28 on Channel 25 @ 9:30 p.m.

What happens when your mother dies and twelve years later, you find her at a psychiatric hospital?

What does Dad decide, after he closes the refrigerator door and finds his dead wife standing there?

“Having amnesia is worse than death,” Gabrielle Ravolie said. “Not knowing who you are, not having anything, no possessions, no…”

The mob chosen to carry out Bernadette Malone’s vengeance prepares to avenge her death. But this time, they’re going to try without Claycondine.

What will happen to the Ravolie and the Shedel family next? And whom will John seek out this time to keep the love of his life alive?

The sequel to FALLING ROSES (AuthorHouse, 2005), FALLING ROSES: THE YEARS BETWEEN will let you discover more romance, suspense, drama, a secret baby, and a few love triangles all wrapped into one.

It so happens that THE MONSTER’S MIND is a (46 Page) novella, in which my Editor Autumn Conley wrote. Excellent Book! Need I say more? THE MONSTER’S MIND is an easy read and can be finished in one sitting. To Pick up a copy of this book you can go to the publisher's website at

www.PublishAmerica.com This is the book that has also been turned into a movie!!

The human mind is a strange and wonderful thing--but sometimes no matter how hard we try, we cannot understand the thoughts the mind thinks, the reactions the mind takes, or the actions the mind commands. Some diseases can never be cured... no matter how hard we try, no matter how much we know, no matter how desperately we hope. The Monster's Mind is the story of a strange intrigue with the complex questions of the demented mind and motives of killer Joshua Dawson. It is a tale of the doctor who longs to help him to find the normalcy so many of us take for granted, and a terrifying realization that some minds simply cannot be reasoned into making sense at all, even if helping them becomes a futile obsession.

Part of series from “Do You Have the *BVDS?” from Hall’s Rx for Your Writings Ills

Be verbs tell instead of show:

Fiction writers, don’t tell your readers what someone or something is. Show them instead! Help them experience what your point of view character does (and make use of senses). Show other characters’ reactions by what they do and say.

Weak: “The afternoon was getting hotter, and Jim was miserable looking.”

Stronger: “Jim wiped sweat from his forehead and squinted at the afternoon sun.”

Weak: “Paul is proud his date is a pretty girl.”

Stronger: “Paul swells with pride at the admiring looks his date attracts.”

Weak: “The smell of Grandma’s pumpkin pie had been sweet and familiar, and

Meghan imagined she was instantly a little girl again.”

Stronger: “As soon as Meghan opened the car door, the familiar aroma of pumpkin

pie wafted to her. She wanted to run inside like a little girl and throw herself into

Grandma’s ample arms.”

Notice point of view: 1^st set - objective POV; 2^nd & 3^rd sets - each a single character’s POV

Do demons bedevil your writing? Similar, confusing words? Grammar, punctuation, or capitalization rules? “The Demystifier” will clear up the mystery (primary reference unless otherwise noted: Garner, Bryan A. Dictionary of Modern American Usage. N.Y.: Oxford University Press). Address questions and comments to freelance editor, Joan Upton Hall, PO Box 179, Hutto, TX 78634, or email: jmuHall@aol.com. More problems like the one above are demystified in the booklet, 50 Writers’ Tips. Find a few of them at “books, etc.” on website: www.JoanUptonHall.com.

I have asked Irene to do the cover of FALLING ROSES: THE YEARS BETWEEN and she has graciously accepted. Check out her website.

Click here to check out the pictures from Authorfest on the Gottawrite Network's Website.

Click on the link below for a segment of the "Building Blocks to a Great Romance" Panel.