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Eloisa
is changing the way people read books! Eloisa’s website
has thousands of registered “Eloisa Readers,” who are addicted
to the site’s extra features, particularly her “Extra Chapters.” After
a book is published, readers on the Bulletin
Board vote for the “chapter
they wish Eloisa had written” – and then she writes it! Check
in the Readers’ Pages for “Extra
Chapters.”
Eloisa
writes a column every month for Barnes & Noble’s
Review website, an online publication that aims to bring serious readers
smart and useful appraisals of current books. She has written about the
socio-economic status of vampires and the miracles that save failing marriages
in Christmas novels. Her column appears on the first Monday of every month.
Catch all the archives.
Eloisa's recent book, An Affair Before Christmas, which debuted at #15 on the New York Times Bestseller List, was given a starred review by Publishers' Weekly -- a journal that doesn't often star romances. The reviewer found Affair "entertaining and exciting throughout [with] enough seduction, laughter and surprises...to satisfy even the most demanding fans of historical fiction."
Eloisa's father is Robert Bly, winner of the American
Book Award for poetry. She's described herself
as feeling as if she were Gilbert and Sullivan
-- born into the family of Bach!
One of Eloisa's recent books is the tale of a young woman growing up with an eccentric, dramatic poet for a father! Desperate Duchesses is dedicated to Robert Bly.
The public was fascinated – Desperate Duchesses hit #5 on the Publishers' Weekly Mass Market Bestseller List – as well as 15 on the New York Times!
People are fascinated by Eloisa's double life as a bestselling romance writer and a Shakespeare professor -- now the Today Show and More magazine are sending her down to Nashville to try her hand at writing country music as well! How many people do you know with three careers?
One of Eloisa's
previous releases (Pleasure
for Pleasure) features
a plump heroine. Eloisa's work often breaks
all the so-called "rules" for
romance--what other romance writer has featured
a hero who annulled his first marriage on the
grounds of impotence?

Eloisa
James is a professor of English literature,
specializing in Shakespeare. She teaches at
Fordham University in New York City, where
she is head of the Creative
Writing Program. Oxford
University Press published her academic book
in 2000.
Eloisa
lives in New Jersey during the school year,
and in Florence, Italy, during the summers.
Her husband is a cavaliere, an Italian
knight.
Twelve
of Eloisa’s books are bestsellers,
some on more than one list. Included are three New York Times bestsellers, eight New
York Times extended bestsellers and eleven USAToday bestsellers.
See the whole
list.
Eloisa's
books have been translated into Dutch, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish,
Spanish and Russian. She's a hard-cover bestseller
in Holland and Spain.
Eloisa has approximately 3.5 million books in print in nine languages. Harper Collins reported the print run of Desperate Duchesses at 500K.
Eloisa
James is the daughter of poet Robert
Bly (winner
of the American Book Award for Poetry) and
short story author Carol
Bly. Her father is
a big fan.  Eloisa
James's godfather was the poet James Wright,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his Collected
Poems. Among those poems – and
one of Wright's most beloved – is a poem
written for his goddaughter, Mary Bly (aka
Eloisa James).
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Eloisa
appreciates all the requests for photographs
for press use. The following photo is available
for download in both mac(.sit) and pc(.zip)
formats. All images are jpgs; pixel dimensions
denote height. Please let us know where you
post your article so we can link to it. Thanks.
photo credit: Amanda
Stevenson Lupke
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For further information, please contact: Pamela Spengler-Jaffee
Publicity, Harper Collins Publications
212.207.7495
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Press Release (posted April 2008): Duchess By Night
USA Today online asked Eloisa five questions in May 2007. Check it out.
Secret
Romance: St. Paul Pioneer Press features
Eloisa in their Daily Life section. To
view, click on thumbnail below.

Jan.
2006: WNBC interview with Eloisa
Eloisa's
More magazine piece on leading a "double
life." To view, click
on thumbnail below.

Eloisa's
New York Times opinion piece. To read Eloisa's
defense of the romance genre, click on
thumbnail below.

Professor
Steps Out of the Shadows: an interview
with Eloisa in The
Oakland Press. To view,
click on thumbnail below.

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