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: Cowboys
August 22, 2011 | Monday | 150 Comments
You know that gleaming white… thing on the abdomen of Jo Goodman’s upcoming book? The one that, as Goodman’s editor said, once you see it, you can’t NOT see it? You want a copy of your own, right? Sure you do. I mean, not only is there Accidental Dong on the cover, but it’s Jo Freaking Goodman, who many a romance readers adores for her emotional old West historicals. Want one? I have three. I giggle every time I look at them. Easy as pie: just leave a comment and tell me your favorite Goodman romance, or, if you haven’t…
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August 10, 2011 | Wednesday | 3 Comments
Anne enquired after an author whose novels she enjoyed a great deal: Knight in a White Stetson, The Virgin Beauty, and Renegade with a Badge were written by one Claire King for the Intimate Moments line. They’re awesome, and as nearly as I can tell, she’s dropped off the face of the earth. I’d love to know if she’s writing under another name, or joined a nunnery, or what! Well, Knight in a White Stetson and Renegade with a Badge are both available on Kindle, with “White Stetson” as part of Harlequin’s new “Treasury” collection - so these must be…
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August 16, 2010 | Monday | 69 Comments
Billie Bloebaum, romance book buyer for Powell’s in the Portland Airport, is exercising the power of her handselling abilities online, and fields requests for books to read. Kimberly writes in with a Bookmatcher request: Hi Sarah, I was wondering if you could help me out. I usually read urban fantasy or fantasy books with strong romance elements. I’m ready to move on and expand my horizons a little. I remember that you have done a feature called The Bookmatcher and was wondering if you would do one for me. I would love to read more space romances (think Linnea Sinclair-LOVE…
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November 25, 2009 | Wednesday | 145 Comments
I was pondering my continued enjoyment of werewolf fiction, especially in the wake of the polarized reaction to my review of Bitten, and started to wonder why were-predators and vampires seem to be still the dominant paranormal motif in romance. There are other paranormal creatures - faeries, were-amphibians, were-birds, demons, ghosts, incubi and succubi, for example - within the paranormal romance shelves, but the predominant creature, both in continued fascination and in number of titles, seems to be the weres and the vamps. Why is that? There’s a lot of questioning as to why the Twilight series sustains its audience…
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September 01, 2009 | Tuesday | 16 Comments
It’s Unleash Your Story time to benefit Cystic Fibrosis. The Madison chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation does an annual benefit that raises money to fight cystic fibrosis and encourages you to read and write as much as possible. There’s prizes, too! The grand prize for the person who raises the most money will win a quilt handmade by Michelle Baker. (Y’ALL. Check out the turtle quilt Michelle made.) The grand prize quilt? Cowboys, baby: shirtless cowboys with incredible quilt stitching details like boots and hats. There are pacesetters, too: author Lori Wilde is challenging writers with a 3000 words-a-day…
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May 25, 2009 | Monday | 24 Comments
I have it on good authority that the following names will appear in the next Lorelei James cowboy erotica novel, seeing as Cody, Cade, Kane, and Colt are all taken: Kale Corn Cart Kelp Kilt Kern Curd Kock Crap Cold Crud Clap Kale and Corn might both be in the closet for one another, and Kern is definitely a cowboy-cum-computer-programmer, but we’ll have to see what happens in the next few books. I’m not sure if I can handle the multi-partner sex scene between Crap, Clap, Crud, and Kock. And yes, it was often difficult to keep the one-syllable characters…
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