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Sizzling Book Club Pick for July: Storm by Brigid Kemmerer

Time to announce the July Sizzling Book Club selection!

This month's pick is Storm by Brigid Kemmerer.

This is the first book in a YA series with some paranormal elements, or mostly just elements (hence the series name, "The Elementals"). Here's the description:

Becca Chandler is suddenly getting all the guys-- the ones she doesn't want. Ever since her ex-boyfriend spread those lies about her. Then she saves Chris Merrick from a beating in the school parking lot. Chris is different. Way different: he can control water--just like his brothers can control fire, wind, and earth. They're powerful. Dangerous. Marked for death.

And now that she knows the truth, so is Becca.

Secrets are hard to keep when your life's at stake. When Hunter, the mysterious new kid around school, turns up with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time, Becca thinks she can trust him. But then Hunter… read more »

Sizzling Book Club Chat: Bring Him Home by Karina Bliss

Tonight at 9pm ET, the window below will go live with chatting and discussion (and some silliness, perhaps) as we gather to talk about Bring Him Home by Karina Bliss. This book was a powerful story and I know we'll have a lot to talk about. Karina Bliss will be joining us from New Zealand at 10pm ET for Q&A, as well. 

I hope to see you at 9, and can't wait to chat with you! 

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June Sizzling Book Club Pick: Bring Him Home by Karina Bliss - Rebate Now Available!

As I announced earlier, the June Sizzling Book Club selection is Bring Him Home by Karina Bliss. It's too much fun to highlight the best writing in the SuperRomance line. If you've never tried a category romance, this is a powerful one with a lot of emotion and depth. And the rebate is now on, so if you buy at ARe, you'll get 50% back in eBook Bucks.

Here's the summary: Claire Langford is ready to move on. She's grieved for her late husband, and now it's time she made a different life for herself and her kid. She's got a new business in the works that should accomplish that. Before the plan gets off the ground, however, she needs Nate Wyatt's help. First she has to track the man down, then drag him to New Zealand.

Too bad Nate is complicated times ten. Given how difficult it was to persuade him to make the trip,… read more »

June Sizzling Book Club Pick: Bring Him Home by Karina Bliss

If you pay attention to the ads in the right column (and thank you muchly if you do!), you'll notice that the June Sizzling Book Club pick is Karina Bliss' Bring Him Home. Yay - that is indeed two SuperRomances in a row!

Here's the summary: Claire Langford is ready to move on. She's grieved for her late husband, and now it's time she made a different life for herself and her kid. She's got a new business in the works that should accomplish that. Before the plan gets off the ground, however, she needs Nate Wyatt's help. First she has to track the man down, then drag him to New Zealand.

Too bad Nate is complicated times ten. Given how difficult it was to persuade him to make the trip, she's not prepared for his kindness, his support…his captivating attention. And she's definitely not prepared to fall for him! But it just might be too late to stop that from happening….

… read more »

Sizzling Book Club Chat: The Long Shot by Ellen Hartman

It's time for the Sizzling Book Club Chat! 

At 9pm tongiht ET, the window below will go live with rambunctious shenanigans and discussion, and we'll be talking about Ellen Hartman's The Long Shot, a Harlequin SuperRomance set in upstate New York. 

Ellen Hartman will join us at 10pm for Q&A, and there may be additional mayhem at that time. 

I hope you can join us - with or without your beverage of choice! 

The Long Shot: Winners!

Thanks Sveta for the nudge that reminded me I'd written all this out and not posted it. MY BAD. Sorry!

The winners of a digital copy of The Long Shot are:

Sally

Nadia

Alex

AKD

riwally

Amy

Gabriel

ReadingPenguin

Carrie Gwaltney

SarahA_B

Fiona Morrigan

Sizzling Book Club Pick: The Long Shot by Ellen Hartman - Win a Copy!

I enjoyed May's book club pick so much, I wanted to hit people with it so they'd read it. That's effective persuasion, right? Of course it is.

The May Sizzling Book Club pick is: The Long Shot, by Ellen Hartman. Here's the plot summary:

Deacon Fallon has made something of himself. Yeah, it wasn't easy becoming a successful—now retired—pro basketball player, but he did it. In the process, he made his brother's life better. That's always been Deacon's goal.

This latest effort to help, however, may push Deacon too far. He's been roped into coaching the high school girls' team! Worse, there's a little offside action brewing between him and his hot assistant coach, Julia Bradley. Definitely not in his plans, but he can't resist her. And for the first time, Deacon wants something that has nothing to do with his brother and everything to do with Julia!

Girls high school basketball! Coaching! Returning home!… read more »

Sizzling Book Club Chat: Tamara Morgan’s Love is a Battlefield

Tonight at 9pm ET, the window below will go live, and we'll be discussing Tamara Morgan's Love is a Battlefield (Goodreads | ARe). I hear rumors of ARC giveaways from Samhain, and possibly shenanigans with mayhem on the side.

Plus the author will join us at 10pm ET. I love book club chats, as they are very lively and fun discussions, especially when everyone brings their own beverage of choice. I hope you'll stop by! 

Love is a Battlefield: Winners!

The five winners of a free copy of "Love is a Battlefield" are:

Please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your email address, and please tell me which format you'd like! 

The 50% rebate is still good at AllRomance, until 15 April 2012. If you use SBTBARE at checkout, you will get a 50% eBook Bucks Rebate at AllRomance.com, the official sponsor of the Sizzling Book Club. The after-rebate price at ARe is pretty awesome - $2.75 - and please note, this is a rebate, which means Ebook Bucks will be available for your shopping pleasure if you purchase the book there. You can read more about the eBook Bucks at All Romance.

I hope you enjoy the book as much as I have, and that you'll join us for the sizzing book club chat on April 26 at 9:00 pm ET. Tamara Morgan will be joining us for Q&A at 10:00 pm. Want to add it to your calendar? Here, have a button: 

I have… read more »

Sizzling Book Club Pick: Love is a Battlefield by Tamara Morgan

At the book club chat with Bella Andre, I announced the April Book Club Pick - and now the rebate is live for your buying pleasure! Plus, I'm giving away five copies for your winning pleasure, so read on!

The April Book Club Pick is: Love is a Battlefield by Tamara Morgan.

Summary, ahoy!  It might be modern times, but Kate Simmons isn’t willing to live a life without at least the illusion of the perfect English romance. A proud member of the Jane Austen Regency Re-Enactment Society, Kate fulfills her passion for courtliness and high-waisted gowns in the company of a few women who share her love of all things heaving. Then she encounters Julian Wallace, a professional Highland Games athlete who could have stepped right off the covers of her favorite novels. He’s everything brooding, masculine, and, well, heaving. The perfect example of a man who knows just how to wear his high sense of honor—and… read more »

Sizzling Book Club Chat: I Only Have Eyes for You by Bella Andre

Tonight at 9pm ET, the window below will go live with fast-moving and often hilarious commentary as we discuss Bella Andre's I Only Have Eyes for You. I hope you enjoyed it, and I can't wait to discuss it with you! Bella Andre will be joining us at 10pm ET to answer questions, and I'm sure there will be many.

If you're not able to make the chat but want to ask a question, either for discussion or for the author, you can leave a comment below or email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooks.com. And if you miss the chat, the entire conversation is archived in that same window below after the chat session ends, so you can read it at your leisure. Talk to you tonight! 

March Sizzling Book Club Pick: I Only Have Eyes For You by Bella Andre

Time to announce the March Book Club Pick! I announced it at last night's chat but in case you weren't there, you're here now. Hi there!

The March book club pick is: I Only Have Eyes For You by Bella Andre. And here is the summary:

Sophie Sullivan, a librarian in San Francisco, was five years old when she fell head over heels in love with Jake McCann. Twenty years later, she’s convinced the notorious bad boy still sees her as the “nice” Sullivan twin. That is, when he bothers to look at her at all. But when they both get caught up in the magic of the first Sullivan wedding, she knows it’s long past time to do whatever it takes to make him see her for who she truly is...the woman who will love him forever.

Jake has always been a magnet for women, especially since his Irish pubs made him extremely wealthy. But the only woman he really wants is the one he… read more »

Sizzling Book Club Chat: Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

It's book club chat time! Tonight at 9pm ET, the window below will go live with a discussion of Beverly Jenkins' Indigo, and we'll chat for about an hour. 

At 10pm, Beverly Jenkins will join us for Q&A and assorted mayhem. 

I cannot wait to discuss this book with you - so I hope you'll join us, and bring along your beverage of choice!

Sizzling Book Club Pick: Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

Time to announce the February Book Club Pick! If you tuned into the chat Tuesday night, you heard this already, but it's worth repeating with MORE WORDS!

The February book club pick is: Indigo by Beverly Jenkins. This book is so well-reviewed everywhere you look, and there's a very good reason for that. It's amazing. It's also a classic and one of the best historical romances. 

Here's the summary: As a child Hester Wyatt escaped slavery, but now the dark skinned beauty is a dedicated member of Michigan's Underground railroad, offering other runaways a chance at the freedom she has learned to love.

When one of her fellow conductors brings her an injured man to hide, Hester doesn't hesitate even after she is told about the price on his head. The man in question is the great conductor known as the "Black Daniel" a vital member of the North's Underground railroad network, but Hester finds him so rude and arrogant, she begins to question her vow to hide him.

Sizzling Book Club Chat: Courtney Milan’s Unraveled

Tonight at 9pm ET, the window below will go live with book chatting, mayhem, shenanigans, and much Smite discussion. I hope you'll join us for the book club chat about Courtney Milan's Unraveled.

The chat will be from 9-10pm, and Milan will join us at 10pm for a Q&A session. I cannot wait to hear what you thought of this book.