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: Mills And Boon
May 12, 2012 | Saturday | 14 Comments
Sarina is looking for two books she read a long time ago: The first one was a Mills & Boon or harlequin or something (the cover had been torn off) and in it the hero and the heroine are at a costume party at a historic house when they get they get transported back in time via a painting. He bets his watch at a poker game and gets them some money, then they pretend to be a married couple. They can't leave until they solve the mystery of who murdered someone in the house they got transported back in…
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March 23, 2012 | Friday | 18 Comments
I linked to this on Twitter but I think I neglected to link to it here: Mills & Boon is running a survey about cover art, asking folks to choose their favorites from four choices: I believe the ones on the left are the current Riva covers, and I confess to really liking the split on the diagonal. But I dislike cartoon covers, especially the preternatual thinness of the women, like they can floss their teeth with their fingertips and use their legs to pick a lock. Which do you like? If you haven't taken the survey, it's still live. …
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December 08, 2011 | Thursday | 7 Comments
Lizzie is looking for a Mills & Boon she read a while ago - with a really interesting setting!
After unpacking a box of old Mills & Boons that had been in my mom's attic
for 20 years i didn't find a book that I don't remeber as being
particularly good but I remember so many key details that I'm keen to read
it again.
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March 16, 2011 | Wednesday | 6 Comments
First, from Julie and many others: the best self-portraits in the history of the world. Alex Holder, she of the Awesome Blonde Hair, commissioned these portraits as part of Women’s Day. Can we all take a moment to marvel at her boyfriend’s mustache? And ponder where they found that beige turtleneck - and that teal jumpsuit?! Well played, Ms. Holder. Well played. Second, in a totally different direction, last week I was a keynote speaker at PubCamp, talking about reader issues and the bad news and good news from a reader’s perspective. The text of my speech is online at…
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March 03, 2011 | Thursday | 62 Comments
It’s time for yet another Adventure Of Bucket! Not Hyacinth Bucket, nor the Lolrus Bucket. This bucket.
This bucket has a lot of work to do. Here’s an example. Look! It’s a book cover, brought to my attention by sharp-eyed reader DL!
Quite a lovely photograph, really. It’s not bad. But NOT FOR BUCKET. Bucket Must Make Change!
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November 07, 2010 | Sunday | 93 Comments
Want to grin? Have some happy, thoughtful links. An Ode to Emilie Loring, romance author. Thanks to Holly G. for that link. Q: Which romance authors (you can only name one) remain enduring favorites through every single book they wrote? New or older authors, doesn’t matter. (I predict the top three favorites from the comments will be Heyer, Roberts, and McMaster-Bujold. My choice is Julia Spencer-Fleming, mostly because I’m going through a palate-cleanse of mystery reading and I can’t stop turning back to her books to enjoy and savor her character building and small-world-building skills. Mills & Boon has a…
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July 19, 2010 | Monday | 17 Comments
Thanks to Jane Litte, I spent a few hours on the water’s edge in Vancouver reading this book, and I am so pleased that I did. Through total coincidence, I’ve read a lot of reconciliation romance, which is totally fine with me as I love to read romances featuring people growing wiser, healing and repairing relationships. This was another romance after a few in a row featuring a couple that endured a long separation, during which they grew up a little, and learned to appreciate each other better than when they’d originally connected. But the difficult balance of reconciliation is…
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September 11, 2009 | Friday | 13 Comments
From two arms of Harlequin, two different types of awesome, both free. First, Harlequin Mills & Boon is celebrating a year of ebooks by offering… free ebooks. At Everyone’s Reading.com, you can download one free ebook form each of their lines, including Deanna Raybourn’s Silent in the Grave, which I really enjoyed, and two M&B Modern, which I generally enjoy a LOT of a lot. But here’s the cool part: click on any of the covers, and the download options include epub, mobi, OR you can text “books” to a given number to receive the book ON Your PHONE. That,…
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January 01, 2009 | Thursday | 8 Comments
Want to get drunk really fast this evening? Here: read this article about male Mills & Boon romance author Gill Sanderson. Every time the reporter makes a snide or unnecessary dig about romance: drink!
You’ll be blotto by the midpoint. I’m counting at least 10. I’m enormously impressed with Mr. Sanderson’s forbearance with this article, but I throw a flag and issue a 15 yard penalty for reporter Peter Jackson. Unnecessary roughness, loss of down.
[Thank you to the many, many readers who forwarded me the link.]
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December 14, 2008 | Sunday | 22 Comments
Need a giggle? We at SB HQ are happy to provide with enchanting and coquettish actions.
A “respected research institute” used what they thought was a Chinese poem on the cover of its recent journal.
It was. If by “poem” you mean “advertisement for strip club in Macau that specializes in ‘hot housewives in action.’”
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December 11, 2008 | Thursday | 22 Comments
It’s time once again when the email queries of those seeking advice are answered with the wisdom of romance novels. Today’s letter reads: Dear Smart Bitch Sarah: You’ve been posting a lot of gift ideas lately, and while some of them are hilariously awesome and adorable and I giggle at the idea, the fact is, I’m broker than broke. I was low on funds before the market went down, and now that things are really tight, I’m having trouble with student loans for next term, rent, food, everything. I do, however, have an awesome girlfriend, and I adore her. We…
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September 09, 2008 | Tuesday | 25 Comments
There are two really, really great words in this article about the new line of Mills & Boon romances that will focus on more sexuality than you can shake an erect stick at.
Those two words are: Breezy Malone.
Wonder if she queefs? And if she’s having adventures in the Australian bush, does that make it Mills & Boon lesbian erotica? (I’m making really bad jokes to avoid the involuntary twitching at the repeated use of the word “porn” in the article. Feel free to join me).
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June 26, 2008 | Thursday | 8 Comments
Candice is working on a paper “considering the elements of romanticism, eroticism and feminine arousal in the modern romance novel” and seeks a book from the wayback machine to help out her literary analysis: I think it was a Harlequin Mills and Boon from about 10-sih years ago. The hero is a cowboy - fully maladjusted when it comes to relationships. I think he was an orphan and was raised by an aunt and uncle - uncle slapped him around I think. Umm… heroine is his wife who left him because he was so cold. They have children - twins,…
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