Join us on Monday, June 3rd, 7-9 PM at Madame X when our guest authors will be Laura Kaye, Deanna Raybourn and Lisa Renee Jones, all making their Lady Jane’s Salon debut.
Admission: $5 or one gently-used romance novel. Net monies support an end-of-year donation to Women in Need.
Guest authors’ books available for sale onsite courtesy of Posman Books Grand Central.
Cash bar with $5 drink specials.
Join us on Monday, May 6th, 7-9 PM at Madame X when our guest authors will be: Jennifer Delamere, Jessica Verdi, and Elf Ahearn, all making their Lady Jane’s Salon debut.
Admission: $5 or one gently-used romance novel. Net monies support an end-of-year donation to Women in Need.
Guest authors’ books available for sale onsite courtesy of Posman Books Grand Central.
Cash bar with $5 drink specials.
From L to R: Salon founders Hope Tarr, Ron Hogan & Leanna Renee Hieber. Alyssa Montoya from WIN.
Monday’s celebration of Lady Jane’s Salon’s fourth anniversary was a magical night indeed. We began the festivities with a champagne toast courtesy of Entangled Publishing.
Guest author, Sarah MacLean.
Guest author, Ruth A. Casie.
Following the toast, founders Ron Hogan, Leanna Renee Hieber and Yours Truly (AKA Hope Tarr) each took a turn at the mic to express what the past four years have meant to us as well as our appreciation for: the staff of our beloved host venue, Madame X; the Salon night sponsors, Entangled Publishing and Three Olives Vodka; and last but never least our wonderful audience. Without your continued enthusiasm and support, Lady Jane’s could and would not exist.
The first half of the program featured readings by guest authors Ruth A. Casie and Sarah MacLean. Seen circulating in the crowd was Sarah’s fellow Avon/Harper Collins author, Eloisa James.
At the mid-session break, guests took the opportunity to purchase books on sale courtesy of our wonderful onsite bookseller, Posman Books.
But of course no birthday celebration would be complete without cake! Or libations! Guests noshed on miniature gourmet cupcakes, again courtesy of Entangled Publishing, while sipping on “The Lady Jane” and “The Scoundrel,” two chocolate and cinnamon-infused-vodka cocktails provided by Three Olives Vodka.
Then it was back to “business” with our annual donation presentation to our recipient charity, Women in Need. Alyssa Montoya took the stage to give a brief and poignant introduction to the good works that WIN accomplishes on behalf of formerly disadvantaged women and children in New York City.
Salon co-founder Hope Tarr–yes, me again–stayed on stage to read a snippet from Book #2 in her Suddenly Cinderella Series, tentatively titled PROJECT CINDERELLA, as well as to fill everyone in on the upcoming Lady Jane’s Salon she will be holding on Friday, March 1st at the Australian Romance Readers Conference (ARRC 2013) in Brisbane, Australia. Our first ever Salon off US soil will feature four fantastic guest authors: Cathy Maxwell, Keri Arthur, Amy Andrews, and Anna Campbell. Read more about that here.
Guest author, Jennifer Probst.
Jennifer Probst rounded out the readings with a scene from THE MARRIAGE BARGAIN. Think “Must Love Dogs” meets “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” — and yes, we know we are “dating” ourselves with the latter reference.
The evening concluded with a raffle of KNIGHT OF RUNES donated by Ruth A. Casie. As always at Lady Jane’s, those net monies will support our next year’s donation to Women in Need.
From L to R: Sarah MacLean, Ron Hogan, Jennifer Probst, Ruth A. Casie, Hope Tarr & Leanna Renee Hieber
2013 promises to be our best year yet. Please join us on Monday, March 4th at 7-9PM with guests Kate McMurray, Ashlyn MacNamara and Sara Humphreys.
LADY JANE’S SALON™ Celebrates Four Years in NYC
Join Lady Jane’s Salon™, New York City’s first—and still only—monthly romance fiction reading series in celebrating its fourth anniversary, now with four satellite salons nationwide!
Monday, February 4th, 7:00-9:00 PM at Madame X (Top Bar). 94 West Houston St., New York, NY 10012-2529.
Guest authors: Salon Co-founder, Hope Tarr (Project Cinderella, Suddenly Cinderella Series Book #2), Ruth A. Casie (Knight of Runes), Sarah MacLean (One Good Earl Deserves a Lover) and Jennifer Probst (The Marriage Mistake, Book #2, Marriage to a Billionaire Series). Program will include an annual donation to our recipient charity, Women-in-Need.org.
Admission: $5 dollars or one gently-used romance novel. Net proceeds support W-I-N. Cash bar.
Guest authors’ print books will be available for sale and signing on site courtesy of Posman Books, Grand Central.
Sponsors: Champagne toast and cupcakes courtesy of Entangled Publishing; complimentary cocktails courtesy of Three Olives® Vodka.
Last year's 3rd anniversary bash. L-R: Guests Sarah Wendell, Eloisa James & Lauren Willig & Salon founders Ron Hogan, Leanna Renee Hieber & Hope Tarr. Photo by Morgan Doremus of RT BOOK Reviews.
Join us on Monday, January 7th, 7-9 PM at Madame X as we ring in a New Year, our fourth on the NYC reading series scene.
Guest readers will be Salon Co-founders Ron Hogan and Leanna Renee Hieber and, new to the Lady Jane’s stage, Jamie Brenner celebrating the paperback release of THE GIN LOVERS.
Cash bar. Guest authors print books will be available for onsite signing and sale courtesy of Posman Books.
Admission is $5 or one gently-used paperback romance novel. Net cash proceeds support an end-of-year donation to Women-in-Need.
SAVE THE DATE: Happy Fourth Birthday, Lady Jane! Monday, February 4th, 7-9PM. Salon sponsored by Entangled Publishing. Guest authors: Salon Co-founder, Hope Tarr, Ruth A. Casie, and Jennifer Probst! Annual donation presentation to Women-in-Need.org. Champers, cake and all ’round revelry guaranteed!
Welcome the winter holidays Lady Jane’s Salon style!
Join us on Monday, December 3rd, 7-9PM at Madame X. Our guest authors will be: Jerri Smith-Ready, Michael Boccacino, Alma Katsu and, returning to the Salon stage, the marvelous Miranda Neville!
Cash bar. Guest authors print books will be available for onsite signing and sale courtesy of Posman Books.
Admission is $5 or one gently-used paperback romance novel. Net cash proceeds support an end-of-year donation to Women-in-Need.
Join us on Labor Day Monday, September 3rd, 7-9PM as we welcome Diana Cosby and Erica Ridley reading from their Scottish vampire anthology, BORN TO BITE (with bestseller Hannah Howell).
WHERE: Madame X (Top Bar). 94 West Houston Street. New York, NY 10012-2529. (212) 539-0808. Subway: 6 at Spring Street, F at Broadway/Lafayette.
Admission is $5 dollars or one gently-used romance novel. Net proceeds support an end-of-year donation to a New York City women’s charity.
Cash bar.
Guest authors’ print books will be available for sale and signing on site courtesy of Posman Books, Grand Central location.
Sponsor: Beatrice.com
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(L to R) Adrienne Giordano & Tracey Devlyn (Founders, LJS Naperville), Ron Hogan, Leanna Renee Hieber & Hope Tarr (Founders LJS NYC), Aug 6, 2012
Photo by Ron Hogan.
Join us on Monday, August 6th, 7:00-9:00 PM as we welcome five great guest authors. Debuting at the Salon are Tracey Devlyn and Adrienne Giordano, Co-founders of the Lady Jane’s Satellite Salon in Naperville, IL. Also reading: Co-founder and current principal of Lady Jane’s Salon™, Hope Tarr along with Marissa Doyle.
[NOTE: Nisha Sharma W/A Tess Quinn will be rescheduled].
WHERE: Madame X (Top Bar). 94 West Houston Street. New York, NY 10012-2529. (212) 539-0808. Subway: 6 at Spring Street, F at Broadway/Lafayette.
Admission is $5 dollars or one gently-used romance novel. Net proceeds support an end-of-year donation to a New York City women’s charity. Cash bar.
Guest authors’ print books will be available for sale and signing on site courtesy of Posman Books, Grand Central location.
Sponsor: Beatrice.com
Guest Author, Beatriz Williams. Photo courtesy of BeatrizWilliams.com.
Book Expo America in New York is invariably a blast of a (not quite) literary week, and we at Lady Jane’s are always thrilled to welcome out-of-town guests as well as greet fond familiar faces.
The Monday, June 4th Salon welcomes four fabulous guest readers. Returning to the Salon stage: Mari Mancusi. First-time guests:Taryn Rose, Diana Peterfreund and debut author (and frequent Salon attendee), Beatriz Williams.
Join us at Madame X (Top Tier) from 7-9PM. Admission is $5 or one gently-used romance novel. Net cash proceeds support an end-of-year donation to a NYC women’s charity.
Guest authors’ books will be available for signing and sale at the authors’ discretion. Cash transactions only.
Cash bar with $5 beverage specials.
Please note: There will be NO July Salon. Please join us again on Monday, August 6th.
Salon regular and newly minted published romance author, Suleikha Snyder reports on the May Lady Jane’s at which she read a snippet from her delicious Bollywood-set erotic romance, SPICE AND SMOKE. Welcome, Suleikha!
The May 7th Lady Jane’s Salon at New York’s Madame X lounge was hardly my first as an attendee…but it was a major milestone as an author, as our beloved hosts with the most, Hope Tarr, Leanna Renee Hieber and Ron Hogan, invited me to be amongst the guest readers! I joined YA authors Zoraida Cordova (The Vicious Deep) and Alethea Kontis (Enchanted), steampunk writer Kate Cross (Heart of Brass), and historical fiction author Sherry Jones (Four Sisters, All Queens). It made for quite the diverse roster, since I read from my male/male (and male/female) Bollywood romance, Spice and Smoke.
I have to confess, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs…despite Madame X having none of the latter in their decadent, bordello-inspired interior. What it does have, on the nights that feature Lady Jane’s Salon, is warmth and laughter and a host of people to hold your hand, pat you on the shoulder and assure you, “Don’t worry, you’ll be great!” And cocktails. Let’s not forget those delicious $5 drinks. I sipped one as I sat between my pals Mary and Elizabeth (no, they’re not Henry VIII’s daughters!), and listened to Zoraida read aloud a moving, sweet, first encounter from her mermaid tale. Deep, yes. Vicious? For that, you have to buy the book! My Bollywood boys and I went up right after her. Polyamorous bisexual smokers on the prowl go well with teenage mermen, right?
I read an excerpt where our hero and his hero (or his would-be hero) get a little up close and personal…but not too close. Lady Jane’s is such a supportive, fun, loving crowd…they laughed at all the right places and even at some parts I didn’t realize were funny! Afterwards, a few people came up to tell me how hot the excerpt was, too. Funny and sexy? Yay! After me was Sherry Jones, of The Jewel of Medina fame, who read from another gem, regaling us with the forbidden love of Marguerite and “her Lancelot.” Kate Cross shared some steampunk cyborg love (of sorts!) with an MI-5 flair. (Her hero is named Lucas, after Richard Armitage’s character.) Then Alethea Kontis, who held her book release party immediately after the Salon, capped off the evening with a rousing performance from her debut, Enchanted. Her audio book reader, Katherine Kellgren, did the voices of a teenage boy and a gravel-voiced frog with such verve! I think the entire room was in awe!
But, let’s face it: Lady Jane’s Salon is ALL about the awe. All the time. It’s the place to be if you love romance and romance fans. So pop in on the first Monday of any given month, order an Indecent Proposal and bring your own spice. Come to think of it, you can bring your own smoke, too! Just do it outside, as New York bars are smoke-free. 
Join us for the next Salon on Monday, June 4th! (Note: There will be NO July Salon).
