Jackie Collins new Madison Castelli novel, "Deadly Embrace", was published in 2002, and "Hollywood Divorces" was published in 2003. In 2004, Collins hosted a series of television specials, "Jackie Collins Presents", for E! Entertainment Television. Collins continued with "Lovers & Players" (2006); the sixth Lucky Santangelo novel, "Drop Dead Beautiful" (2007); and "Married Lovers" (2008), which concerns the affairs of a female personal trainer named Cameron Paradise. This was followed by "Poor Little Bitch Girl" (2009), which stemmed from an idea Collins had worked on for a television series about heiresses that was ultimately never made. "Paris Connections" (2010), a direct-to-DVD movie
Lady of Sherwood featured cover art by Gregg Gulbronson, who also redesigned the covers for Roberson's works "Lady of the Forest" and "Lady of the Glen". The novel has received generally positive reviews. Contributing to the "Library Journal", Jackie Cassada asserted that "fans of historical fiction and period fantasy should enjoy this rousing story," while "Booklist"s Kaite Mediatore Stover opined that it "is just the story for the handywoman who can take care of herself." Writing for the same publication, Melanie Duncan positively compared "Lady of Sherwood" to the novel "The Mists of Avalon", writing "what Marion Zimmer Bradley did for King Arthur,