Spanish Disco (Red Dress Ink (Numbered Paperback)) [Paperback]

Erica Orloff (Author)

Book Description

Series: Red Dress Ink (Numbered Paperback) | Publication Date: January 1, 2003

Over three million kids a year play Little League baseball. That's a lot of kids keeping track of batting averages, learning what an Era is and how to figure yours out, finding out the rationale behind the infield fly rule, and knowing when to steal second.

"Little League's Official How-To-Play Baseball Book" was a video first, released by Mastervision under a licensing agreement with Little Leage. It was a Doubleday hardcover and then a Main Street paperback, finally becoming a Broadway reprint. It is the Only comprehensive training guide on the market written for and targeted to Little Leaguers themselves. It explains hitting and pitching, baserunning, sliding, and each and every defensive position. There are also sections on overall strategy -- both offensive and defensive -- the importance of warming up, fitness, the equipment, teamwork and good sportsmanship. You can rely on this guide from the first warm up pitch to last licks.

For the first time in 12 years, "Little League's Official How-To-Play Baseball Book" is being revised. It will include Little League, Inc.'s newest rules and regulations, a letter from the President of the corporation, and expanded sections on teamwork and sportsmanship to include remarks on age limits (after the recent Bronx scandal), parent-spectator involvement, overtraining, and more.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A brilliant editor, workaholic, ex-Studio 54 wild child and burgeoning alcoholic-the heroine of this romantic comedy is caustic enough to take the varnish off Bridget Jones's nails. Cassie Hayes, 33, is perfectly happy with her coffee-chugging, 80-hour-workweek life as West Side Publishing's star editor. The closest she gets to nutritious food is the lemon wedges that accompany her daily tequila, and her current idea of intimacy is the incredible phone sex she has with her bestselling author Michael Pearton, who lives a safe 5,000 miles away in London. All this suits her just fine, until famous recluse Roland Riggs, who disappeared from the scene shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel Simple Simon, announces that he has completed the book's long-awaited sequel-and that he wants Cassie to be his editor. Cassie reluctantly sets off for the writer's secluded home on Sanibel Island in the Gulf of Mexico, only to discover that Roland is determined to hold the sequel hostage until she teaches him to do the Hustle like a pro so he can woo his disco-loving Mexican housekeeper. While coaxing the book out of Roland, wrestling with her growing feelings for Michael, who is suddenly insisting that they must meet, fending off a tabloid reporter who has stumbled onto Roland's secrets and reconciling herself with her troublesome mother, Cassie has her hands full-and there ain't a decent espresso in sight. This isn't the subtlest love story, even by the standards of the genre, but Cassie is refreshingly free of the self-doubt that afflicts most of her peers.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Erica Orloff is a writer who lives and works in South Florida. She is the author/coauthor of the humor books Dirty Little Secrets (St. Martin's Press) and The Big Sleep (Random House), as well as The 24/7 Home Office Sourcebook (Prentice Hall). Her works for children include The Best Friend's Handbook: The Totally Cool, One of a Kind Book for You and Your Best Friend (Walker Books) and The Balloonatiks book series (Animagic Publishing) based on the upcoming Warner Brothers/Kids-WB television show.

As an editor, Erica has worked on hundreds of books, several of which have gone on to be bestsellers. As a ghostwriter, she has also been in demand and has been behind the scenes on many successful books. A veteran radio talk show guest, Erica has appeared on over a hundred radio talk shows, including many in national syndication. She has done many book signings and speaks regularly to young people about writing and publishing.

In her personal life she hates to fly, refuses to cook and is hard-pressed to get out of her pajamas each day as she works poolside in her home. She has a tight-knit circle of friends and family, loves to play poker and entertain, and has a houseful of unruly pets.

Copyright © 2002 Erica Orloff

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Red Dress Ink (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373250231
• ISBN-13: 978-0373250233
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,508,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As close as RDI's ever gotten to an "anti-heroine", January 12, 2003

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This review is from: Spanish Disco (Red Dress Ink (Numbered Paperback)) (Paperback)

People who've read three or more installments from Red Dress Ink know that the heroines in said novels are twenty or thirty-something-year-old career women looking for love over cocktails at trendy bars. However, Spanish Disco, RDI's newest chick lit, has a rather unique protagonist -- well, unique for RDI's standards.

Thirty-three-year-old Cassie Hayes is a successful book editor whose life couldn't be messier if she'd tried. After all, she lives on her own, has no fellow-drinking gal pals to mess about with, and, despite the fact that a mysterious English writer is besotted with her, she has no interest in pursuing a relationship with anyone. But when an eccentric Pulitzer Prize-winning author gives her an offer she can't refuse, her life begins to take some unexpected turns...

Erica Orloff does an excellent job in bringing Cassie to life. I was able to relate to Cassie's gripping and realistic situations. Cassie is as close as RDI's ever gotten to an "anti-heroine," for the protagonist's complex personality has a slightly darker edge.

I am duly impressed with the novels that Red Dress Ink has released in the last few months. There's no doubt that this publishing house is venturing into some more literary work. I recommend this fine little gem. RDI enthusiasts won't be disappointed with this one...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable contemporary romance, January 18, 2003

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This review is from: Spanish Disco (Red Dress Ink (Numbered Paperback)) (Paperback)

Though West Side Publishing book editor Cassie Hayes now lives in Boca Raton, Florida, she has never shredded her New York City lifestyle, which means coffee at any hour. In the case of her top novelist, Michael Pearton that could mean three in the morning her time as he calls her from England whenever he suffers writer's block or needs phone sex. Cassie likes this relationship because she fears an in the flesh coupling.

Pulitzer Prize winning recluse Roland Riggs agrees to allow West Side to publish his first work since he won the Pulitzer for Simple Simon decades ago. His condition is that the editor resides in his remote home to teach him how to disco dance and court a woman because he is in love for the first since his wife was murdered. Cassie has the assignment that makes her stomach grind not so much because of the spicy food served or that she will be hustling her butt off, but because relationships are not her thing. Yet when Michael becomes extremely jealous, as he loves his Floridian based editor, she begins to reconsider what life is all about encouraged by Roland's struggle to regain his.

SPANISH DISCO is an enjoyable contemporary romance that plays out on several levels as the cast consists of walking wounded souls. Though the tale evolves around gun shy Cassie, readers also obtain a reasonably deep look inside the souls of Roland, Maria (housekeeper and the love of his life), and Michael. Fans of dramas with a dysfunctional relationship theme as its core will want to disco with Erica Orloff's romantic romp.

Harriet Klausner

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Book!!, June 7, 2003

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This review is from: Spanish Disco (Red Dress Ink (Numbered Paperback)) (Paperback)

This book is my favorite Chick Lit book ever because it was different. It was super funny, very witty, and I couldn't put it down until the last page and the surprise ending, which I did not guess. This is the best book Red Dress has ever done!!!