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: Anna Campbell
April 17, 2012 | Tuesday | 30 Comments
It's been officially announced, so I can share the giddy: I'm going to be one of the featured guests at the first GenreCon in Australia! The conference is being hosted by the Queensland Writers Centre as part of their Australian Writer's Marketplace program. Their description reads: "a weekend long party and networking opportunity for like-minded writers and publishing professionals united by their love of romance, fantasy, science fiction, crime, young adult, and other sub-genres that have been routinely segregated to their own corner of the bookshop. Genre fiction often gets overlooked at Australian literary festivals, but it’s the source of…
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August 09, 2011 | Tuesday | 54 Comments
Many books establish reader sympathy for the tortured hero early in the book. Reader sympathy allows a secret and somewhat omniscient understanding of what appears to other characters to be aloof, arrogant or even cruel behavior. If the reader didn’t know the hero has a tortured, miserable past, or a turning point in his life that changed his character, he’d seem more like a shit and less like a hero. In Lord of Scoundrels, Loretta Chase establishes from the earliest pages Dain’s miserable childhood, and his feelings of distrust, abandonment, and shame. He does not fit, he does not look…
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March 30, 2011 | Wednesday | 32 Comments
About three-plus years ago, author Colleen Gleason emailed me to ask what folks meant by “dark romance.” I came across her question a few days ago while digging through my files (a text document called ‘Write about this stuff’ dated 2007 is hard to pass up, yo) and found that a combination of pondering, Twitter, wikipedia, and everyone else’s wisdom makes for a good exploration of what it means to write “dark romance.” So today’s column at Kirkus, The Dish Behind Dark Romance, explores the topic, because interestingly enough, it’s often easier to give examples of what constitutes ‘dark’ in…
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October 26, 2009 | Monday | 11 Comments
NOTE: In late August, Jenny won an ARC of Anna Campbell’s Captive of Sin from us, and we asked that she review it for us after she read it. Jenny is as thorough in her opinion as we are in ours - way to go, Jenny. What follows is her review. Lady Charis Weston, the wealthiest heiress in England, is fleeing from her wicked stepbrothers (yes, there are wicked stepbrothers in this book). She manages to escape them one night and hides in the stables at the local inn, where she’s discovered by Sir Gideon Trevithick. Charis gives him a…
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September 02, 2009 | Wednesday | 0 Comments
On 27 October, Anna Campbell’s latest, Captive of Sin will be published by Avon. And, as promised, I’m selecting a random commenter to win an ARC - with the caveat that the winner please write up a review for me to let me know what she thought. And the winner is: JennyME who said that, for a chance to read this book, she wouldreform a rake, endure the annual Smythe-Smith musical, astound Beau Brummel with my acidic wit, earn a voucher to Almack’s despite my scandalous past, and go on a wild spending spree that, strangely enough, won’t come close…
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August 31, 2009 | Monday | 84 Comments
On 27 October, Anna Campbell’s latest, Captive of Sin will be published by Avon. I have a bound ARC that I’m giving away to one random commenter today. Captive of Sin is about a marriage of convenience (yum) between an heiress with dastardly relatives and a tortured hero with painful secrets in his past. You can read an excerpt on Campbell’s website. Avon gave me the go-ahead to give this one away, and yes, I ship internationally. I do ask that if you win, you write a review prior to publication date and send it to me so that I…
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