Never Give Up

Ballantine Pays $3.75 Million for a Literary Novelist's Vampire Trilogy

Garth Stein's novel The Art of Racing in the Rain has sold at auction for $1.2 million to HarperCollins


**UPDATE - speaking of not giving up, Alison Kent's cut-off date to join Seventy Days Of Sweat is Friday, July 13, at midnight.

RIP, Kathleen Woodiwiss

Like I said yesterday, life is fragile.

Romance novelist Kathleen Woodiwiss dies of cancer
Kathleen Woodiwiss revolutionized the romance novel.

Woodiwiss, creator of the modern historical romance novel with feisty heroines, ornate period settings, and erotically charged adventures, died of cancer Friday in Princeton, Minn.

Woodiwiss, who had 36 million books in print, was 68.