News
Tess will be at a book signing on Saturday May 10th from 2pm-4pm at Waldenbooks, Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL.

Lookout for Tess' new novel, due out at the beginning of 2009, The Cradle Snatcher.

Book Reviews
‘This [Soft Focus] is a rags-to-rag trade tale… right at the book’s heart, cunningly knotting the many threads together, is a despicable international trade. I loved this racy, pacy saga, with corruption, blackmail, murder, war-torn Iraq…all crammed in.’ - Cosmopolitan

Hard News is a cracking good behind-the-scenes look at a TV station… it incorporates the adventures of acquiring tricky or risky stories and the equally dangerous back-stabbing of office politics. Sexy, witty, romantic and compulsive, it’s also… pretty authentic.’ - Today Newspaper

‘Here, at last, is the new Jackie Collins…. The racy prose style bears the reader along effortlessly, and the descriptive passages bear witness both to her own time as a TV news reporter and her Oxford English degree. ‘ - London Evening Standard

‘Passion and danger [are] a breathtaking mix in this sexily funny behind-the-scenes-at-a-TV-news-station romance.’ - Woman’s Own

‘It’s all there in this sexy, gripping blockbuster set at the ‘fictional’ INN news network.’ - Essentials

‘Putting her experience as an ex-ITN producer to good use, Stimson has created an effective variation on the bonkbuster format, set in the high-pressure world of TV news. It’s deliciously racy stuff…a compulsive combination of high-octane plot and regular steamy sex scenes, underpinned by a convincing behind-the-scenes portrayal of broadcast journalism and some realistic news dramas – perfect summer beach reading.’ - The List

‘This novel about breaking stories and breaking the rules in the TV news industry has a fascination all of its own.’ - The Post

‘Best of the sizzlers. 9/10.’ - The Daily Mirror

‘Stimson’s second novel [Soft Focus] is an intelligent, very sexy tale of fate, betrayal and a shocking secret… all the characters are nursing terrible emotional wounds and are bound together by fate, and as events move them closer towards resolving the past, the action really heats up… this is an exciting read that is at times disturbing, but always gripping.’ - Company

‘Stimson is said to be the new Jackie Collins, but by my standards she has just gone one step further…this book is absolutely gripping and has your mind going over-time.’ - Observer

The steamiest read of this summer is undoubtedly Soft Focus… with this sexy high-octane blockbuster, author Tess Stimson graduates from the Jackie Collins school of literature.’ - The Post

‘It’s [Pole Position] that sort of book. The kind that blends seamlessly with airports and Ambre Solaire.’ - Daily Mail

‘Book of the Month… get ready to zoom into the world of Formula One, with its super-fast cars, ultra- sexy drivers and rich hangers-on….reserve your copy now, because Pole Position is the red-hot bonkbuster to take to the beach this summer.’ - Company

Pole Position…promises to be even more fun than her first two [novels]…her novels combine meticulous research with racy plots and lashings of raunchy sex.’ - Observer

‘Stand by for tales of high-octane passion…Formula One is about to undergo the sort of operation which Jilly Cooper performed on polo.’ - Daily Telegraph

‘[One of the] major sellers…Pole Position has a motor-racing backdrop, and is by another well connected media woman.’ - The Bookseller




Author photographs Hugo Burnand