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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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June 06, 2011 | Monday | 39 Comments
It’s been awhile, but our multi-blog campaign to Save the Contemporary is back. If you’re not familiar with it, don’t worry - it has been a very long time since we’ve run one. If a contemporary romance makes both Jane and myself squee like squeeing has never been squeed before, it’s time to pimp the ever lovin’ holy moses out of a book. This time it’s Yours to Keep by Shannon Stacey. We ask for help spreading the word about a contemporary romance that rocked our worlds, and we award prizes during a week of pimping mayhem. Jane said over…
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March 29, 2011 | Tuesday | 17 Comments
Collision Course is my new favorite one-night stand of romance novels, and it was just the thing to see my through a very stressful week which culminated in Dear Daughter catching the flu. This is not a book that is likely to inspire anyone with deep thoughts about life, but for pure escapism you just can’t do better than this. Many thanks to Zoë Archer for transporting me to the outer regions of space in between earthly crisis! I was so excited to read Collision Course that I lost my eBook virginity to it (it’s only available digitally), and although…
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March 28, 2011 | Monday | 46 Comments
A few links! Because it’s been awhile and my inbox is full of awesome. First, in case you were under a large rock or on vacation like I was, the RITAs and Golden Hearts were announced - and Twitter pretty much exploded about it, too. What do you think? Have you read any of them? I’m pondering reading at least one from every category and challenging myself to get them all done (and reviewed) by the date of the RITA ceremony. Anyone want to take the RITA challenge with me? Over on the Carina Press blog, Angela James has big…
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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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November 24, 2010 | Wednesday | 44 Comments
I’m over at The House of Kirkus today talking about Friends-to-Lovers plots, and the various pitfalls that could happen to the hero and heroine on their way from friends to friends-with-benefits all the way to friends-with-happily-ever-after. There’s the type in which one person is secretly in love with the other, while the other remains ignorant of all that ardor. I call this One Pines and One is Clueless. Then there’s the type where one or both Wake Up (often at about the same moment) and See Something More in the other person that wasn’t so obvious before. Both plots can…
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November 23, 2010 | Tuesday | 62 Comments
Good Shit vs. Shit to Avoid time! I had an interesting email (many of them are, thank you, thank you) about books featuring the heroine who is surprised by a relationship - and by someone’s interest in her: I’m looking for a book where the heroine is genuinely not interested (romantically) in the hero. I know, I know, it’s supposed to be a romance novel, but lately I’ve lately been reading books and watching dramas (asian tv) where the heroine with zero pride will throw herself at the guy. She usually goes through great humbling lengths and all of her…
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August 06, 2010 | Friday | 71 Comments
Sitting on my countertop right now are a number of printed bound galleys for books coming out in November. Publishing as a rule works so far in advance, editors are now plotting out winter 2011, or even spring 2012, and thinking little about what’s going on in a month or two. That’s marketing and publicity’s department. And, of course, the author’s concern as well. But if you’re a Dorchester author with a mass market release scheduled for this fall, you are thinking a lot about right now - and from my understanding, thinking you are totally lost, up a creek,…
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June 28, 2010 | Monday | 20 Comments
It’s time to select the next book in the Sizzling Summer Book Club! (Ha- I just typed “Swizzling.” YES. It is Swizzling, an Sizzling!) Get your ATV helmet, because we’re reading Shannon Stacey’s Exclusively Yours. You can get a copy at AllRomance eBooks with a 50% rebate if you use coupon code SBTBARE at checkout. You can also purchase the book from Carina Press, Amazon.com’s Kindle store, or BN.com for the Nook. PLEASE NOTE: This book is DRM-free from ARe and from the Carina Press store. If you purchase it for Kindle or Nook usage, you are going to get…
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June 25, 2010 | Friday | 40 Comments
My next title for the Sizzling Summer Book Club is going to be a digital book from a digital press. What does that mean? No print copies, basically. (*cue rage-waving of arms and gnashing of teeth!*) Don’t worry, I’m going to do print books, too, but I wanted to do at least one excellent digital book. Plus, and this’ll narrow the guessing down, the book I’ve chosen comes from a small press that does not use DRM (THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU) so there won’t be any pesky registering and proving you are who you say you are and…
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June 08, 2010 | Tuesday | 12 Comments
Song of Seduction is a fiercely turbulent and emotional story set in Austria in the early 1800s - in winter. It’s cold and passionate at the same time, with the greatest passion portrayed not by the characters but by the music they make. Mathilda Heidel is a hidden prodigy: she can play the violin by ear, mimicking perfectly and improvising instantly any piece she hears, despite a very little amount of instruction. But she’s buried her gifts for years in response to a notorious and painful childhood and a very pedestrian marriage that ended in her husband’s sudden death. When…
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June 07, 2010 | Monday | 17 Comments
I had such a good old time reading this book. There were some flaws to the plot but while reading it, I was charmed and giggly and totally absorbed. This book made me happy. That’s probably the best way to put it: it made me smile. A lot. Books like this are why I read romance. Keri Daniels is an entertainment reporter in LA who left her hometown in New Hampshire a long, long time ago, breaking it off with her high school sweetheart Joe right after graduation and heading as far west as she could. She’s been back before,…
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