Last day to sign up for the Second Chance Tournament - voting on the Sweet Sixteen begins tomorrow! The voting schedule for the Sweet Sixteen is up on the DABWAHA site. The competition is fierce, hilarious, and friendly. And the audiovisuals continue: Sarah Morgan's son whipped up this bit of adorable for A Night of Scandal ( A | BN | K | S ). read more »
Avon is having a March Madness™ sale - a whole bracket of ebooks for $1.99! Mistress of Scandal by Sara Bennett * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S My Lady's Guardian by Gayle Callen * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S Man at Work by Elaine Fox * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S The Mistress Diaries by Julianne MacLean * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S My Lord Conqueror by Samantha James * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S Marry… read more »
First, if you have a Kindle with Special Offers, there's a special offer to redeem that gets you a coupon code. The code allows you to pick one book from a selection of 100 romances and buy it for $1. WOO! If you have a Kindle and would like to enable special offers to try to grab this coupon code, you can change the settings on your Kindle account and subscribe to special offers. Here's the list of 100 romances to choose from once you have a coupon code. And now: ebooks on sale! Only Love by Elizabeth Lowell *… read more »
A handful of coupons and rebates and things involving % signs! Harlequin has eBook daily deals through 3 January. Today, for 1 January, four featured books are all 25% off with coupon code BESL25OFF at checkout. Sarah Mayberry's Best Laid Plans and Maria Snyder's Outside In are featured today. You can also save an EXTRA 10% on all Harlequin Ebooks with coupon code SAVE10AFFO at checkout but I don't think you can combine that coupon code with the one above. For those ordering print books from Harlequin, you can get free shipping with coupon code FREESHIPAFFO at checkout. Print books… read more »
There are so many freaking book deals. It's crazy. My inbox overfloweth with the announcementeths. Here. Have a list. First, Devil's Bride with Bonus Materials by Stephanie Laurens is on sale for .99c. [Amazon | BN] Not only is that an amazing price (though I wonder what the bonus materials are - that must be one heck of a trousseau) but that's an amazing book. I read it all the time. I love this book. ETA: from WF, Kindle Store's The Big Deal has a ton of .99c and free-for-Prime-members books as well. BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE: Eloisa James has asked that… read more »
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… read more »
I had two questions when I opened the Kindle Fire package and started to play with the device last night: 1. Would this device be as easy to use as the other Kindle products, the ones that come with the world’s shortest printed user guide? 2. Who is the ideal customer or customers for the Kindle Fire? No, wait, I had a third question: 3. Could I get through a device demo with Hubby on the sofa next to me without either of us saying, “FIRE! FIRE!” There was a good bit of Beavis and Butthead while we tried out… read more »
Terri emailed me recently about author Nicole Jordan’s backlist, which has recently been released digitally. Terri is a longtime fan of Jordan’s books, and she wrote up a very comprehensive guide to the older novels, which I really wanted to share with you. So thank you, Terri, and apologies in advance to your book budgets, y’all. Here are some recommendations/thoughts on Nicole Jordan’s backlist, many of which were just reissued as ebooks for the bargain price of $2.99 each (the only book below that is not $2.99 is The Warrior) A quick caveat about these books: Nicole Jordan’s backlist tends to… read more »
The internet is full of all kinds of awesome things. I like it here. First up, from JD Drew: decrepit Victorian homes built of Legos. Prepare to be impressed because CREEPY and AWESOME are here in equal doses. Next: how awesome is this? Puffin, a division of Penguin, as donated use of Roald Dahl’s digital books , James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the Worldreader program. Worldreader makes digital books available to readers in developing worlds, and Amazon, Random House, and now Penguin are part of the program. High fives, y’all.… read more »
Time to pick a winner of the Halfway to the Grave with Bonus Materials - and a Digital Reader contest! The winner of the digital reader of her choice is, as determined by the Random Number Generator, KIT at 8:19pm! Congratulations, Kit! Please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom to claim your winnings. And thank you to everyone who entered - your answers were hilarious, especially the number of you who were going to bring books. That’ll be one bookish cemetery. The sale price on Halfway to the Grave is valid until 25 October, so you can still grab yourself and some… read more »
Christine Merrill’s The Inconvenient Duchess is a free PDF download from TryHarlequin.com. This book was released in 2006, and has pretty high Amazon reviews from its release. Also in the TryHarlequin collection are three Spanish language novels—scroll all the way to the right to find them. But wait, there’s more! This weekend only, Fictionwise is offering 50% off all titles with coupon code92311 092311 (SORRY!). There are two caveats: one, the coupon is not valid on Samhain titles and certainly not on any agency publisher titles. Two, there’s not a huge selection at Fictionwise, alas. But they do have Harlequin… read more »
1: PW is now accepting digital galleys and reviewing digital-first genre fiction. WORD. Way to go, y’all. 2. Until noon tomorrow, you can enter to win an ARC of Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels at Jennifer Estep’s blog. WOO! 3. Want some good news? The population of black -footed ferrets has increased in the past year, due to efforts in breeding and reintroduction. Go ferrets, go! So, what’s new with you? read more »
This week I am back at the Kirkus (which I call The Kirks for short, and picture Kirk Cameron, Kirk Dougas and Captain Kirk doing a very elegant line dance around the Kirkus headquarters) talking about ferocious heroines - the ones who are so violent and so strong it’s rather startling when you read them at first: A step beyond merely strong heroines, though, are the fierce heroines. Sometimes I love reading about ferocious heroines. Sometimes angry, sometimes violent, and always incredibly strong and determined—I love heroines like this. They can be violent and do things I’d never do in… read more »
Just in time for me to travel tomorrow to New Orleans for Heather Graham’s Writers for New Orleans conference, there’s ebooks on sale. HOT DIGGITY! Johanna Lindsey’s Once a Princess, which was recommended by several Bitchery readers as a good intro to Lindsey’s novels, is on sale for $2.99 in ebook form [Kindle | Kobo | BN | WORD Brooklyn] Funny enough, the “other” Once a Princess, a fantasy/scifi type story, is free online right now. Lots of discounted princesses! Also part of the Amazon $3.99 or under sale: Suzanne Enoch’s The Care and Taming of a Rogue for $2.99… read more »
To celebrate Georgette Heyer’s birthday, Sourcebooks has put their entire digital collection of Heyer novels on sale for $1.99. NICE. Ready to shop? Hope so! I struggled recently with The Grand Sophy, which I read last week, but Heyer’s books are, unquestionably, quite a legacy to the romance community. $1.99 is quite a nice price, too. The books should be at this price from 15-21 August at most major e-retailers, though sometimes there is a delay with switching the price. You may have to check back. Here’s a comprehensive list for you. I’ve tried to find links to many major… read more »
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