Special Link

Besides a terrific article and review of GLADYS AND CAPONE, reporter/editor Dean Gray compiled 6 pages of 1920s photos and text about Gladys Walton's silent film career. Lists all her movies & Broadway shows, including Gladys Walton tobacco trading cards, glamor shots popular in France, never before seen plot descriptions and pictures from one of her New York films, "The Sky Raider."

Plus a review of two Gladys Walton films by poet laureate, Carl Sandburg! By 1920 Sandburg had won his first Pulitzer Prize for poetry, but who knew he did movie reviews for the Chicago Daily News? I guess even great writers have to pay the bills.

www.desertvalleystar.com

Special Events

PALM SPRINGS WRITERS' GUILD
February 7th, 9:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Kathryn Jordan will conduct a writers' read and critique workshop for the Palm Springs Writers' Guild, February 7th, 9:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.

NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN
February 23rd at 1:00 P.M.
La Jolla Public Library, Draper Street, La Jolla, CA. Contact Lois Howard, phone: 288-0214. Kathryn Jordan will speak about HOT WATER and her new novel GLADYS AND CAPONE

AN EVENING WITHTHE AUTHOR
March 12th at 7:00 P.M.
Mission Lakes Country Club, Desert Hot Springs, Contact Carol Atwood, phone: 251-1645.

HOT WATER goes international!
The world Spanish language rights to HOT WATER were recently purchased by Editorial ViaMagna, a publisher, in Spain. The release date is January 19, 2007.

SPECIAL EVENT:
5:00 P.M. every Friday at Two Bunch Palms Resort & Spa, Desert Hot Springs - Kathryn Jordan and John Walton present the story of John's mother, Gladys Walton, silent screen star and Al Capone's girlfriend. (Yes, Mr. Walton is their love child). Kathryn does a reading from the new novel, GLADYS AND CAPONE. What fun revisiting Hollywood of the 1920s! Guests also see the entrance to the legendary tunnels and the Capone suite, if available.

SPECIAL EVENT:
Can this really be dignified author Kathryn Jordan at the Pulpwood Queens' "Hair Ball"? Click here for more about Girlfriend Weekend with the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs in Marshall, Texas, January 19-21. Learn the origins of Kathryn's outfit to match the cover of Hot Water (a turquoise wig?!)

Official Pulpwood Queen and Beauty and the Book website www.beautyandthebook.com

Official Pulpwood Queen Blog and more site www.pulpwoodqueen.com

REVIEW: Posted at Two Lips Review
Hot Water is a gloriously poetic novel that begins in the style of Contemporary Chick Lit but rapidly branches out into philosophy and metaphysics, and into allegory and metaphor. Hot Water truly has the capacity to melt the most jaded, cynical, ice-block heart. Hot Water is a glorious precious gem of a story, one which transforms ugly routine reality into a faceted diamond catching the light. No reader, male nor female, is going to resist this one; it fully deserves best-seller status. Read on...

REVIEW (wnbc.com):
Romance: B(u)y the Book - Old Flames
A disillusioned Midwestern housewife desperately needs respite from her aggressive husband and stifled existence. She indulges in a secret weekend at a spa in the California hills, where she engages the services of a handsome young male escort. Read on...

HOT WATER is the ultimate woman’s fantasy. A Minnesota woman escapes her stifling life for a weekend at a secluded spa resort in the California desert. She rents a red Lamborghini and hires a male escort who turns out to be more than she could dream.

When you flirt with fantasy,
you risk falling in love...

"Hot Water speaks to every woman's dream of reclaiming the sensual joys of life."
                                    - Susan Johnson, best selling author of erotic fiction

Now Available!

NEWS FLASH: HOT WATER HITS BEST SELLER LIST
On May 7th, as Kathryn Jordan toured California spa resorts and book stores, HOT WATER was #2 on a local best seller list in the San Luis Obispo Tribune! On the same list, THE DA VINCI CODE was #4! We're on our way...

I am amazed! I have never seen him before, but Eduardo Verastegui is
William, the hero of the novel.