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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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January 15, 2011 | Saturday | 4 Comments
Gather round on 25 January 2010 at 10:00 pm EST, when we’ll be chatting about Karina Bliss’ Here Comes the Groom! Karina, who lives in New Zealand, will actually be in Canada, so she’s going to join us at 11pm EST, because it’ll be 8pm for her, and not, like, sometime in February (honestly, thinking about the International Date Line and what time it is in New Zealand makes me have to take a deep brain breath). You can still get a copy from now until the 19th of January with the special rebate. Use SBTBARE at checkout to get…
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January 06, 2011 | Thursday | 6 Comments
Ok, I’m a bonehead. I owe y’all a big apology. I totally forgot to announce the winners of the Karina Bliss book, and my only defense was The Distraction of Snooki. This might be my go-to excuse from now on, come to think of it. Blame Snooki. Anyway, I’m sorry. The winners of the 3 signed print and 3 digital copies are: PRINT: Shannon Lind Gail (@9:54 am) tracykitn DIGITAL: FD (@1:34 pm) Theresa (@4:55pm) Elise S. Winners, please email me your snail mail address or email address for your print or digital copy. Congrats! And again, my bad. Here,…
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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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October 27, 2010 | Wednesday | 1 Comments
Tonight at 10pm EDT, the window below will go live and we’ll be chatting about Zoe Archer’s book Scoundrel. I hope you can join us! Zoe Archer will join us at 11pm EDT/8pm PDT.
There’s guaranteed prizes, mayhem, havoc and possibly even shenanigans, so come on by!
Scoundrel by Zoe Archer: Book Club Chat
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