Former Dancer, Choreographer and Playwright, Emily Frankel, Makes Entry into Romantic Fiction Genre with Six Titles

New York City-- Looking for the perfect steamy summer read? Multi-talented New Yorker, Emily Frankel, has six romance novels that can fit the bill.

On stage and off -- as  a dancer, choreographer, director, playwright (seven plays), and the writer of the provocative daily blog,  Em’s Talkery -- Emily Frankel has known success.

And now, as a novelist, she's fired a shot across the bow of the romantic novel genre with the publication of six dramatic, romantic, suspenseful works of fiction: "Circle of Ivy," "Heart City," "Karen of Troy," "Splintered Heart, "Three Miles East of Rose," and "Somebody: Woman of the Century."

The books, which feature strong, complex heroines who deal -- sometimes gracefully, sometimes not -- with the vagaries of life, from love and betrayal to ambition, loss, and redemption, have been published as e-books through Amazon.com, Smashwords.com and available on Overdrive.com, Barnes and Nobel, the Sony Reader Store, and other e-book outlets.
 
To celebrate their publication, Frankel has just gone live with EmilyFrankel.com, a new Website dedicated to the books.

Adding even more flavor to the mix  is renowned stage, television and film actor John Cullum -- who also happens to be Frankel's husband.  In tandem with the books' release, Cullum has recorded dramatic readings from each of the books. The videos are available on the couple's Youtube channel, Airbroadcasting.

Her  books include their share of sex, their author says. But they were not written in response to the newest "Mommy porn" craze represented by the audacious "Shades of Grey" trilogy  --  novels that take the traditional formula of romance writing and put it on steroids.

"Yes, there's sex in all of my six novels  -- like spice -- enough to evoke a reader's interest. But this sex is not meant to induce orgasms. It’s meant to advance the storyline and fill out my characters.  I delve truthfully into all the stuff -- bad and good, sad, ugly, repulsive, and the courageous (because a lot of it is sexual). I don the disguises, some of them outlandish and not very comfortable, but always, as genuine as possible. I write from the spirit, soul, child dream that sent me into dancing," she continues. "I know that my words -- when I write -- truly express what I'm feeling. My books offer readers a trip into someone else's life  -- even though there's a lot of me in there.”

Emily Frankel is a woman of true grit, who has faced adversity in the most dramatic ways, most especially when she was in a horrific car crash that left her almost dead, then threatened to steal away her gift and passion for dancing with a terrifying and permanent diagnosis of paraplegia.

After an arduous recovery, doctors told her she would never walk again -- let alone dance! But surrender is not in Emily Frankel's DNA. With steely determination, she conquered her paralysis and lived -- not only to dance again, but to triumph! The crowning glory of her dance career was that breathtaking showcase at Lincoln Center’s Tully Hall.

Her story has been dramatically chronicled in Teague Jackson's “ENCORE: The Professional and Private Triumph of Emily Frankel."

Emily Frankel's daily blog, "Em's Talkery", offers her candid and frank take on what's happening in the world today -- from politics and pop culture to art and entertainment.  She and husband John Cullum are the proud parents of actor-son JD Cullum.

Together, each week, Emily Frankel and John Cullum record a videocast, in New York City, on their Youtube channel, Airbroadcasting (http://www.youtube.com/airbroadcasting).” 
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