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: Ann Aguirre
June 30, 2011 | Thursday | 3 Comments
This RITA® Reader Challenge was written by Kate. This book finaled in the Novel with Strong Romantic Elements category.
Plot Summary: Navigational grimspace “jumper” Sirantha Jax forms an army to defend colonists stationed on the outskirts of space from a legion of flesh- eating aliens.
That’s one heck of a short summary. Wowser.
And here is Kate’s review:
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September 03, 2008 | Wednesday | 15 Comments
Gillian won a copy of Wanderlust on this here site, and since she doesn’t have a blog of her own, she sent her review to me. Enjoy! Note: I play far too many videogames. Whenever Jax’s PDA speaks, I hear it in GlaDOS’ voice. Just…throwing that out there. Onward! Wanderlust is the sequel to Grimspace, which detailed the trials and tribulations of one Ms. Sirantha Jax, whose job used to be navigating spaceships through the grimspace of the title for the Farwan Corporation. Then there was some unpleasantness with a crash and a cover-up, and a psychic mercenary and a…
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July 23, 2008 | Wednesday | 22 Comments
A list in no particular order to illustrate what happens with a bunch of romance fans, bloggers, readers and authors descend upon a Times Square BBQ place with big honking holy shit huge drinks. 1. I arrive late because I went home, took care of the fam, then drove back into Manhattan. This was bad idea jeans, because a few hundred other people had the same idea at the same time and I was taunted by sitting on the helix into the Lincoln Tunnel looking at New York but unable to get there. And, to make matters more embarrassing for…
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July 22, 2008 | Tuesday | 17 Comments
This evening, traffic, children, and weather permitting, I’ll be at the Ann Aguirre BBQ-a-Thon Gathering aka “Someone has a hella layover and decided to turn it into a PARTAY.” There’s going to be bbq, a lot of napkins because holy crap is that messy food, and a few rounds of my favorite game, “Wait, are you Maria or Marisa?” with the Romance Novel TV twins. Perhaps there will be pictures. There is no doubt, however, there will be a stain on my pants from dripping sauce. It’s a given. And if it’s not on my pants, it’ll be on my…
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July 09, 2008 | Wednesday | 13 Comments
Can I just say that I love the title “Wanderlust?” If you rearrange it, it’s Wanderslut. Which is almost as good.
Anyway, Ann Aguirre got busy with the long ass comment thread and came up with 25 springtime fresh winners of an ARC for Wanderlust! Behold! If your name is below, please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with your mailing address asap! And congratulations!
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July 07, 2008 | Monday | 143 Comments
Ann Aguirre has offered 25 ARCs of her new book Wanderlust for the readers of this here blog. Yay! Want one? Yes? Hook us up with the name of her next book. All the Jax books have compound word titles: Grimspace, Wanderlust, Doubleblind and Killbox. So, what’s the 5th book? Give us an idea, serious or silly. Drop a comment with your choice of a compound word title, and we’ll pick 25 winners from among the best. But there is one condition - as Ann is a master of the viral market (in a good way, not in an ineffective…
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