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November 01, 2011 | Tuesday | 14 Comments
If you tuned in to last week’s book chat, you know that our November book club selection is Courtney Milan’s Unclaimed! Unclaimed is the sequel to Unveiled, our February book club selection, and it’s as marvelous as the first book in the Turner series. Here’s the summary: Handsome, wealthy and respected, Sir Mark Turner is the most sought-after bachelor in all of London—and he’s known far and wide for his irreproachable character. But behind his virtuous reputation lies a passionate nature he keeps carefully in check…until he meets the beautiful Jessica Farleigh, the woman he’s waited for all his life.…
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September 27, 2011 | Tuesday | 0 Comments
It’s book club chat time! Tonight at 9:00pm ET, the window below will go live with discussion about this month’s election, Mistress by Marriage by Maggie Robinson.
I hope you’ll join us to discuss this book and romangst as well!
Sizzling Book Club Chat: Mistress by Marriage by Maggie Robinson
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June 10, 2011 | Friday | 22 Comments
Time for the June Sizzling Book Club Pick - and if you’ve been paying attention this one isn’t much of a surprise. Heh. This month’s pick is the third book in Shannon Stacey’s Kowalski series: Yours to Keep.It is an outstanding contemporary romance, and I hope you like it. Here’s the synopsis: Sean Kowalski no sooner leaves the army than he’s recruited by Emma Shaw to be her fake fiancé. Emma needs to produce a husband-to-be for her grandmother’s upcoming visit, and, though Sean doesn’t like the deception, he could use the landscaping job Emma’s offering while he decides what…
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May 31, 2011 | Tuesday | 4 Comments
Join us tonight at 9pm EDT/8pm CDT when the window below will go crazy with the polls and the mayhem and the questions and the discussion of Wilder’s Mate by Moira Rogers. I hope you’ll join us!
Wilder’s Mate by Moira Rogers
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May 30, 2011 | Monday | 43 Comments
I’m taking a break from my weekend with the Hubby (it’s our anniversary weekend, and I made him promise to stay off the computer so I have to as well. NOBODY BREAK ANYTHING IN HERE, PLEASE!) to tell you two things: 1. You should buy this novella immediately. 2. SIDENOTE: If you buy it from AllRomance, you will get a 50% rebate on this book - and anything else you purchased. Remember those Fictionwise micropay dollars we had in bucketloads? Like that, only with romance, and a better selection, and really good customer support. (Disclosure: AllRomance sponsors the book club.…
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May 27, 2011 | Friday | 9 Comments
I hope you’ve been enjoying Wilder’s Mate - because it’s time to schedule the book club chat. Got your calendar ready?
We will be chatting here at Smart Bitches in that sexxy ad-free chat window on 31 May 9pm EDT/8pm CDT for the book chat, and the authors will be joining us at 10pm EDT/9pm CDT. Got that?
Here: have a button!
So get your questions ready, because with a steampunk erotic paranormal wild west romance novella, there’s really not much to talk about, is there?
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May 15, 2011 | Sunday | 13 Comments
Time again for the best sellers list from Dear Author and Smart Bitches for 10 April - 10 May 2011. As with last week’s list, we used our affiliate links, which reward the blog owner with 6-8% of the sale price for each item sold, to compile the list. I use affiliate links for both All Romance eBooks and Amazon, and Harlequin when reviewing a Harlequin novel. DearAuthor uses affiliate links for Amazon alone. So here is this week’s list. It doesn’t capture every sale out there or every sale that we might inspire, but it is a data point…
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May 09, 2011 | Monday | 24 Comments
Behold, I quote Jane: “One thing that readers have in common is our neverending search for new books. Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches and we at DearAuthor use affiliate links to help fund our sites. These affiliate links reward the blog owner with 6-8% of the sale price for each item sold using an affiliate link. Sarah uses affiliate links for both All Romance eBooks and Amazon, and Harlequin when reviewing a Harlequin novel. DearAuthor uses affiliate links for Amazon alone.” Jane thought that it might be fun to create a “bestseller” list out of the affiliate links. Jane, apparently,…
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March 01, 2011 | Tuesday | 10 Comments
If you tuned in to the Book Club Chat last week, you heard me announce that the next pick is Bitter Melon, a YA novel by Cara Chow. It’s probably the very best part of the book club that I get to select books that I’m excited about. This book grabbed my attention because it’s set deep in a particular culture, but the heroine’s experiences are universal and I had a great deal of empathy for her predicaments. Here’s the cover copy: Frances, a Chinese-American student at an academically competitive school in San Francisco, has always had it drilled into…
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February 01, 2011 | Tuesday | 122 Comments
If you’ve been reading on Twitter or read the transcript of the Sizzling Book Chat, which over 7500 people have (whoa!), you know that the February Sizzling Book Club pick is Courtney Milan’s Unveiled. Ahem. And now, I squee. OH MY GOD. THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD I WANTED TO PUT IT IN MY MOUTH AND EAT IT. There, how was that for a blurb? Heh. Here, have some cover copy to whet your appetite: Ash Turner has waited a lifetime to seek revenge on the man who ruined his family—and now the time for justice has arrived. At Parford…
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December 28, 2010 | Tuesday | 10 Comments
Watch this space - at 9pm EST tonight, it will go live, and we’ll be discussing Amanda Quick’s Scandal with me, and special guest host Jane Litte from Dear Author. Plus, All Romance eBooks has set up some seriously fun giveaway shenanigans taking place all throughout the chat. I hope you’ll join us as we talk about this book, and the other old skool romances that remain ever worthy of a re-re-re-re-re-read.
See you tonight!
Sizzling Book Club Chat: Scandal by Amanda Quick
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December 22, 2010 | Wednesday | 77 Comments
Which books do you adore, recommend, and try to entice people to read romance? Which books have made someone reconsider their opinion of the genre, or created a new romance fan who book shops with you? Which books Hold The Power of Awesome? That’s my topic at Kirkus today: Romance Must-Reads. These are the books that set the bar for the genre, or one of its subgenres, the novels that are so amazing you go back and re-read, unless your copy is lent out to someone who hasn’t returned it yet because they are busy re-reading it for the eleventieth…
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November 30, 2010 | Tuesday | 54 Comments
This month, we’re going Old Skool with our Book Club Pick, with Amanda Quick’s Scandal, one of the first romances I read. I remember seeing this one so clearly on the shelf and checking it out of the library multiple times. When I announced it last night at the book club chat with Jennifer Crusie, many people were most squeeful about it. This is going to be SO fun. Not familiar with Scandal? Here, be tempted by this: From a stately country house in Hampshire to the dazzling drawing rooms of London society comes an exquisite tale of an elfin…
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November 29, 2010 | Monday | 5 Comments
Watch this space, because at 9pm EST it will go live with book discussion, and author Jennifer Crusie will join us at 10pm.
Trust Me On This, by Jennifer Crusie: Book Club Chat
You still have time to read the book - you know, if you take the day off, heat up some leftovers and hide at home. Sounds like an ideal day to me! I’ll be announcing the December pick, too, so get ready. It’s a classic from way back when.
See you this evening!
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November 24, 2010 | Wednesday | 1 Comments
Don’t forget, don’t forget! After turkey coma and the departing of relatives or the long drive home, Monday night is Book Club Chat! There will be a window here on Monday, and at 9pm we’ll go live to discuss Trust Me On This, by Jennifer Crusie. At 10pm EDT, Crusie will join us to talk about this book, rewriting an older book for re-release, and what’s coming next. I’ve also selected the December book club pick and I’ll be announcing it then. I hope you can join us on Monday - it should be exceptionally awesome fun. As usual, there…
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