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April 10, 2012 | Tuesday | 22 Comments
I said out loud twice while reading this book, "This is the least erotic erotic romance. No one's having any sex." Hubby thought I was nuts, but while the story was friendly and sometimes very sweet, there was not much erotic content, in my opinion. If you're looking for explicitness, this is not the Canadian equivalent of small-town, large-family cowboy erotic romance (Lorelei James, for example). I liked this book, but I was expecting erotic romance, so I came away disappointed. For example: the cover and the description sent me a message that There Be Lots of Sex In This…
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January 20, 2012 | Friday | 42 Comments
Lynz sent me this link, and said, "I was channel-surfing the other day and paused when I saw a shot of an attractive man taking his shirt off - wow, that's a really awkward first sentence, I should start thinking more before I write. Anyway, my attention was thoroughly caught and I stopped to watch the video. Seconds later, what did I see but a Harlequin Suspense being used as a fan? I was thinking the video was really cute, until I hit the 2:20 mark, at which point I realized that it was the Best. Music video. Ever. Once I…
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January 13, 2012 | Friday | 12 Comments
Jan Oda sent this video, from a bookshop, Type, in Toronto, Canada. It is adorable.
Link!
Yes, I wish the final frame was about a "real" book, though I understand what they're saying there.
I hope your weekend is filled with curious books in whatever format you want to read them.
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June 27, 2011 | Monday | 1 Comments
Chelsea S. selected this book for the RITA® Reader Challenge, which finaled in the paranormal romance category. Plot Summary: Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He’s the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he’s always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes. Now, unless she helps him through the harsh terrain and the harsher unknowns of his true abilities, it could very well get him killed. Astrid has traveled this…
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April 26, 2011 | Tuesday | 10 Comments
Tune in tonight at 9pm Eastern Time, when we’ll be discussing Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea - or, if you’re Canadian, Sophia’s Secret. I will have to remember to ask which title people liked better. Either way, come on back at 9pm EST when the window below will be hopping with polls, mayhem, giveaways, and some really awesome book discussion. Seriously, I cannot tell you how much I love the book chats. I love hearing what you think of the books. Thank you to AllRomance for being the book club sponsor of excellentness. See you tonight! Bring cocktails! The Winter…
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April 04, 2011 | Monday | 121 Comments
It’s not so much sizzling in northern coastal Scotland in the winter, but this book is amazing for it’s warmth, the strength of the writing, and the story-within-a-story. As I announced in the Book Club Chat last week, our April Book Club pick is Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea. Previously published in Canada as ‘Sophia’s Secret,’ and a nominee for both a RITA and a RNA award, this book is emotional, historically fascinating, rich and worth savoring. Here’s the description: In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled…
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February 11, 2011 | Friday | 23 Comments
Tis the season - it’s Valentine’s day, when media’s attention turns to romance authors for the scoop on all things Valentiney (or just tiny). Romance authors and the day of chocolate, flowers, and romance (and more chocolate) seem to go hand in hand this time of year. So here’s a brief round up of the good and the WTF. From the WTF: Oh, Canada. The CBC rounds up the most ‘romantic’ cities in the Great White North by analyzing which cities buy more romance novels, sex and relationship books - and CD’s by Michael Buble - on Amazon.ca. The winner?…
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January 20, 2011 | Thursday | 14 Comments
Carina Press executive editor Angela James was on The Marilyn Denis Show this morning, which is a live national broadcast in Canada. Live. Also, national. And LIVE TELEVISION. Wowser! I was trying to watch the live feed but couldn’t get it to work. But no worries: the clip of Angie’s appearance is up on the Marilyn.ca website already! Angie’s segment was all about digital reading devices, and how women romance readers are a driving force in the development of the digital reading market. She demonstrated the different devices, gave a brief overview of the differences between the Kindle, the Sony…
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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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October 22, 2010 | Friday | 17 Comments
Gemma sent this in, a true story of her own:
Sweet! I love when she chugs maple syrup.
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August 06, 2010 | Friday | 20 Comments
Thanks to ocelott who sent me this masterpiece of snort giggles:
I have a canoe paddle. Does that count?
Have a very mountie weekend!
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July 02, 2010 | Friday | 40 Comments
Next week I have a TON of travel coming up. First, I’ll be at RomCon in Denver, CO, and if you’re going to be there, I hope you’ll introduce yourself to me. I’m the one with glasses. And I’m usually pretty loud. Then, immediately afterward, I’m going to be in Vancouver, BC, Canada, at Simon Fraser University’s Summer Publishing Workshops giving a keynote address and leading a one-day seminar on Romance Novels. The keynote is focused on “The Reader’s Place in the Publishing Process,” and I’ve got an hour. Think I can squeeze it all in?! (PUN TOTALLY INTENDED.) I…
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June 01, 2010 | Tuesday | 165 Comments
I had an email over the weekend from Helen, who is a little frustrated at the removal of Australian terms from romance novels set in Australia: I have a topic to suggest. International heroes, or, false advertising: why are you labeling him Australian, giving him an American name and calling him a rancher? American cultural imperialism! It drives me crazy. Corrugated iron roofing is called ‘ripple iron’, properties or stations get called ‘ranches’... and dear God almighty, a Sheriff? I hope he’s flown in from the USA cos I’ve never met one in Australia. Why do editors assume that Aussie…
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May 11, 2010 | Tuesday | 24 Comments
I bought this book after reading an article in RT’s May issue about what some romance authors from back in the day are doing now. Their profile of one author, Alexis Harrington (whose name was vaguely familiar to me), mentioned that she’d recently published her backlist on Smashwords and Amazon Kindle. Clickity, click, I had a sample, and then a few clicks later I had to buy the whole book. Harper’s Bride is a quiet, thoughtful romance. It’s a historical, so it takes place in the past, but something about the style, the way it was written and the language…
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May 05, 2010 | Wednesday | 8 Comments
Gosh you’d think the internet was really for p0rn or pictures of cats, but really, it’s all about WOMEN. Heh. And not in the porny sense, either. From an article from Bob d’Awessome, women not only rule mobile social networking, but we rule social media, too. This doesn’t surprise me now that I’ve thought about it. I barely have time to return phone calls and have long conversations but I text all day with friends all over the country about new babies, Tylenol recalls (yes, my children’s pain relief options are now down to bourbon and schnapps), and whatever else…
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