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 is living in Paris in 2009-2010. She posts her daily adventures to Facebook (and in an abbreviated form, to Twitter) – followed by thousands of fans. Check out her updates for the Parisian version of Under the Tuscan Sun – delivered live!

Eloisa writes a feature 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 Ovidian strains in contemporary romance. She’s been called the Lionel Trilling of romance critics – and her column is so popular that B&N commissioned a portrait just for her. Read Eloisa's Archived Columns.

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!

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. 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.

Fourteen of Eloisa’s books are bestsellers, reaching as high as #10 on the New York Times Bestseller List. See the whole list.

Eloisa's books have been published in China, England, France, Germany, Holland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Russia and Thailand. She's a hard-cover bestseller in Holland and Spain.

Eloisa has approximately 3.5 million books in print in thirteen languages.

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 photos are 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.

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photo credit: Todd Plitt

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Pamela Spengler-Jaffee
Publicity, Harper Collins Publications
212.207.7495

WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO NEXT?

Read an excerpt from the Desperate Duchesses series.

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