Bitchin' Blog Posts
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February 02, 2012 | Thursday | 55 Comments
First: NEWS! Which isn't new news, but I'm still thinking about it. Literary god Jonathan Franzen decided that ebooks are horrible and immoral and paper books have a tangible longevity that is superior to digital. Yeah, whatever. Here's my question: I think there needs to be a term for book format prejudice, and it works both ways. There are snide comments made about paper by ebook lovers, and equally snide Franzenesque comments about digital from those who prefer paper. Folks who like audiobooks also report snide comments, so there has to be a term to sum them all up, one that's…
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December 01, 2011 | Thursday | 22 Comments
I'd been bemoaning the lack of ebook deals out there amid the holiday sales - apparently grousing is effective! Julia Quinn's The Secret Diary of Miss Miranda Cheever is $1.99 [ Amazon | BN ] Karen Marie Moning's Darkfever is $1.99 * [ Amazon | BN ] (BN has not reduced the price yet but will soon, I am betting.) A note of warning about the Darkfever series. A reader wrote in recently about how finishing the series left her bereft - and started a very lively discussion of what happens after Book Rebound syndrome kicks in. Be ye warned: there be crack in the Darkfever series,…
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November 28, 2011 | Monday | 5 Comments
I thought to myself several times this weekend while shopping online (what? crowds? No, thanks.) that it was a shame there weren't more ebook sales on Black Friday or Cyber Monday or whatever else the sale days are called. But then, I forgot that AllRomance (sponsor of the Sizzling Book Club and generally awesome at customer service) is offering a Cyber Monday 50% Rebate sale. That means any title that's incentive-eligible (i.e. not agency) - conveniently marked with this symbol: - is eligible for a 50% rebate. That's Harlequin, Samhain, Kensington, Sourcebooks -- anyone but the Big Six. Remember when Fictionwise…
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November 23, 2011 | Wednesday | 29 Comments
First up: per Publisher's Lunch, Overdrive announced on their blog yesterday: "‘Get for Kindle’ for all Penguin eBooks in your catalog has been restored as of this morning. Penguin titles are available for check out by Kindle users and the Kindle format will be available for patrons who are currently on a waiting list for a Penguin title. This does not affect new releases, which remain unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience this caused for your library and patrons. At this time, no further information is available. We hope to share more details in the near future." So Kindle lending…
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August 11, 2011 | Thursday | 60 Comments
More ebooks have been released from Avon, including Hearts Aflame, which is their current .99c offering (Amazon | BN | WORD | Kobo). This book is a classic medieval Lindsay.
While I am not as big a fan of medieval -set romances, I know this book has some fans.
ESPECIALLY since the original cover looked like THIS:
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June 14, 2011 | Tuesday | 15 Comments
Another guest review from Carrie S, who loves sci fi romance, and things steampunk as well. I love steampunk sooooo very much. Something about all those gears and goggles and mad scientists running around in improbable corsetry just enchants my very soul. So, I was very excited to read The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale, by Christine Bell. Given the subject matter of a time traveler with a fondness for The Wizard of Oz, a character named “The Loony Duke of Leister”, and steampunk elements galore, I was hoping it would be a lot of fun. Given the brevity of…
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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 08, 2011 | Tuesday | 25 Comments
From Phyl comes this brilliant video celebrating Library Week in Ireland. Hm. Can I come to Ireland? I want to go to the library there! All of them! And, you know, do all those annoying tourist things. Happy Library Week, Ireland! And, not to feature only Ireland, but everyone else: it’s Read an eBook Week, too, from March 6-12. So, now, I want to go to Ireland AND read an ebook. Well, I pretty much want to read an ebook all the time, much like I want to eat Thin Mints and not wear shoes all the time, but I…
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February 03, 2011 | Thursday | 17 Comments
When I first started this site with Candy, I didn’t know much about anything concerning publishing. Then I learned a lot, and a lot fast, and I’ve met amazing people - such as Malle Vallik, Dictatrix of All Things Digital (that’s totally not her title, obviously) and one smart person when it comes to looking at how women read, and thinking about and predicting how the way we read is changing. I call her The Oracle of eBook. It was her idea to have blogger bundles, collections of Harlequin backlist titles loved by romance bloggers and romance readers, for example.…
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December 30, 2010 | Thursday | 163 Comments
If you read the chat transcript from our Sizzling Book Club chat the other night, you saw at the end that I announced the next book club pick: Karina Bliss’ Here Comes the Groom. YOU. GUYS. Seriously. I couldn’t have enjoyed this book more: a terribly real heroine with Real Problems who has a deep and abiding friendship with the hero—it’s friends to lovers with secrets and an over-the-top awesome ending, plus outstanding dialogue and hilarity. GO READ IT. Here, have blurb: If Jocelyn Swann weren’t so furious, she’d probably laugh. Her best friend, Dan Jansen, has launched a campaign…
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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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November 01, 2010 | Monday | 11 Comments
I mentioned it in the Book Club Chat last week, but it’s time for the official announcement, with links and merriment and all kinds of shenanigans (which is my new favorite word). The next Sizzling Book Club Selection is: Trust Me On This, by Jennifer Crusie. Check out the description: Dennie Banks is an investigative reporter chasing down the biggest story of her career. Alec Prentice is a government agent working undercover to catch an elusive grifter. When they meet by accident, it’s a case of mistaken identities at first sight. What they don’t mistake is the instant attraction they…
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October 12, 2010 | Tuesday | 58 Comments
I write this with dismay, honestly. Despite some major faults, the Kindle does digital book reading, loading, and buying so well, and works so well for me, I’m using the Kindle. Not even the Sony Mercedes ebook reader could lure me away. Every time I sit down at my computer, I find out about a new way to read, load or access books on the Kindle. I can sync books purchased at Amazon across six devices at this point, and I can email files to my device anywhere. Because of the way I interact with books (lots of them, in…
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September 14, 2010 | Tuesday | 7 Comments
A few weeks ago, someone tweeted (thank you, oh kind someone) that there were vintage Garwood novels available for digital pre-order at Amazon.com for a rather low and seductive price. I thought I hadn’t pre-ordered - as I mentioned in the previous entry, my memory, it is not so good - but it turns out I had, and when I found the file, I thought, Oh! Vintage Garwood! YUM. So I opened the file, and… it wasn’t The Lion’s Lady. It was Castles. Hur? I vaguely remembered (*sigh*) that Angie James had said something about receiving the wrong file for…
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August 18, 2010 | Wednesday | 22 Comments
I wouldn’t pass it along if it weren’t worth looking at - so have some linkage! First, Susanna Fraser has the single greatest author website known to man. Or woman. Or both and everything in between. Second, my Sizzling Summer Book Club pick, Kristan Higgins’ All I Ever Wanted is on the USA Today list at #102. Check out the listing though - it’s got that sexy (E) next to it—which means it made the list as an ebook. HOLY SMOKE. That is hot sexy awesome right there! Seriously, I cannot wait to talk about this book on Friday. You…
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