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April 26, 2012 | Thursday | 1 Comments
Tonight at 9pm ET, the window below will go live, and we'll be discussing Tamara Morgan's Love is a Battlefield (Goodreads | ARe). I hear rumors of ARC giveaways from Samhain, and possibly shenanigans with mayhem on the side.
Plus the author will join us at 10pm ET. I love book club chats, as they are very lively and fun discussions, especially when everyone brings their own beverage of choice. I hope you'll stop by!
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April 05, 2012 | Thursday | 4 Comments
The five winners of a free copy of "Love is a Battlefield" are: Xflisa Marc Dawn G Aurora85 Ashlandbaby Please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your email address, and please tell me which format you'd like! The 50% rebate is still good at AllRomance, until 15 April 2012. If you use SBTBARE at checkout, you will get a 50% eBook Bucks Rebate at AllRomance.com, the official sponsor of the Sizzling Book Club. The after-rebate price at ARe is pretty awesome - $2.75 - and please note, this is a rebate, which means Ebook Bucks will be available for your shopping pleasure…
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April 01, 2012 | Sunday | 57 Comments
At the book club chat with Bella Andre, I announced the April Book Club Pick - and now the rebate is live for your buying pleasure! Plus, I'm giving away five copies for your winning pleasure, so read on! The April Book Club Pick is: Love is a Battlefield by Tamara Morgan. Summary, ahoy! It might be modern times, but Kate Simmons isn’t willing to live a life without at least the illusion of the perfect English romance. A proud member of the Jane Austen Regency Re-Enactment Society, Kate fulfills her passion for courtliness and high-waisted gowns in the company…
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June 09, 2011 | Thursday | 21 Comments
First: Zoe Archer wrote this thoughtful entry about romance and feminism: Romance novels depict the emotional lives of women and men. The books aren’t merely the heroine’s journey toward love, but the hero’s journey, as well. Men’s emotions aren’t dismissed or suppressed. Men aren’t belittled for having feelings. Often, it’s the hero’s growing level of comfort and familiarity with emotion that forms one of the central elements to a romance novel. And this openness and acceptance with love actually makes the hero stronger, not weaker. Over at Kirkus, my most recent column is up. I’m talking about when the sex…
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November 17, 2010 | Wednesday | 6 Comments
You were right. All the people who told me after the “Hint of Tuna” adventure that I should give the Konigsburg series another try, you were right. It was worth another try, and I’m glad I did. This book didn’t knock my socks off, but I enjoyed reading it. “Venus in Blue Jeans” was a source of much Kindle ire for me, as the file was somehow locked for “another user” - except I was the one who bought it, so WTF? - and in order to read it, I had to get on the phone with customer support. But…
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October 18, 2010 | Monday | 2 Comments
There, get that out of your head any time soon. HA! Fresh from the dentist, where I had tips put on my canine teeth because I grind them, so I’m extra more VAMPIRE now (WOO!), here’s the publishing news that exploded in my inbox today: First, Harlequin is rebranding, per a letter that was posted on e-Reads, and has a new logo. Plus they are eliminating the “Silhouette” name and consolidating under the “Harlequin”: brand: In April 2011 our Silhouette series will become Harlequin series. As you know, Silhouette Nocturne became Harlequin Nocturne in June of this year. Special Edition,…
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August 13, 2010 | Friday | 50 Comments
I started reading Long Time Gone by Meg Benjamin because the description intrigued me, and because the cover caught my eye. The hero is an eldest brother and the acting chief of police - and isn’t as sure of himself as one would think. Erik Toleffson has a lot of regrets in his life, particularly that in his youth he was a rebellious fuck up and a bully to his younger brothers, up to and including beating the tarnation out of them. Now that he’s back after two tours in Iraq and Kuwait and a few years in a different police…
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May 13, 2010 | Thursday | 36 Comments
For a debut book, this story has an incredibly strong and funny main character - it is first person, for those who abhor the I, me & myself - and a strange and interesting world of characters. Even though it had some flaws in characterization and evenness, I had some difficulty extracting myself from the book. It’s fun and different and the narrator is bizarre and goofy and doesn’t take herself too seriously - which I adore in an over-emo-paranormal-flooded market. First, look at the cover. Holy SMACK is that a good looking cover. If this were on a shelf,…
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April 08, 2010 | Thursday | 3 Comments
Congratulations to Larissa Ione, whose book Ecstasy Unveiled won the 2010 DABWAHA! Larissa will receive a $200 gift certificate from Jane and Sarah for a spa near her home - all the better to relax after all that vote mania! And big congratulations to the bracket winners! To bracket champion Pamela Sinclair: an Apple iPad and a $100 GC for ebooks to fill up the new ebook reader from AllRomance eBooks and OmniLit. WOO HOO! And to the worst bracket: TT Thomas wins for finishing in 845th place, and will receive a selection of books from the Oddshots bloggers, Meljean…
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March 23, 2010 | Tuesday | 1 Comments
Round two of the 2010 DABWAHA is over - and our winner is Mary Kennedy. Congratulations, Mary! EMAIL ** Email me with your mailing address, please, and we’ll hook you up with your prize. The prize? Oh yeah - it’s hot awesome. The Round 2 prize is being provided by author Maya Banks (thanks Maya!) and includes a $50 GC to Amazon or BN (reader’s choice) and a book package that includes signed copies of Sweet Surrender, Sweet Persuasion and Sweet Seduction and an ARC of The Darkest Hour. And don’t forget - if your bracket is shot to hell…
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March 23, 2010 | Tuesday | 1 Comments
Is your bracket destroyed? Did your picks go awry? Do you find yourself tied for 500th place and full of despair? Weep no more, bracketeers, because our 2nd Chance Tourney is created just for you. The stakes aren’t as high but the prizes are just as fine. The winning bracketeer is going to get a brand new Kindle from the fine folks at Samhain. Jennifer Estep, author of the new Elemental Assassin series, is contributing a $50 Amazon gift card, a copy of Spider’s Bite and an e-ARC of Web of Lies? And matching bookmarks, of course. Because you can…
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November 23, 2009 | Monday | 6 Comments
There’s a freebie for Kindlings out there: Kate Johnson’s Twelve Lies of Christmas, a prequel to her Sophie Green series.
I’m not sure how long the prequel is in length, but free is free, should you be of the Kindle-carrying folk.
Any other ebook deals you’re aware of? Send ‘em my way, or leave a note in the comments.
ETA: thanks to Anonymousie here’s a link to the Kindle bestsellers in romance, many of which are free, including Alison Kent’s new book With Extreme Pleasure.
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November 12, 2009 | Thursday | 0 Comments
Thanks to Samhain, for giving away ten books that are now all available wherever you live, including in the US, hooray! Without further ado, or adieu, or achoo, here are, thanks to the random number generator, teh winnahs! Stacy W. 11/10 8:05 am Erin 11/10 9:26 am Erin T. 11/10 9:28 am Stacey P. 11/10 10:56 am Booklover1335 11/10 11:03 am Tamara 11/10 2:44 pm Katie M. 11/10 3:35 pm Ana 11/10 6:20 pm Lauren 11/10 7:31 pm Ruzz02a 11/10 11:53 pm Please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your book choice, the format you prefer, and please, put “Samhain contest”…
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November 10, 2009 | Tuesday | 283 Comments
So last night, I made a tool of myself. Today: you profit from my being a butthead. Hooray! Last night I was ticked off and cranky and the icing on my small torte of pissypants was that a book I’ve been wanting to buy, Lorelei James’ All Jacked Up, was unavailable still. The Amazon page says that because I’m in the US, I’m not able to buy the book - and I got all indignant and shoved my head up my ass on Twitter (SO amazing how easy it is to do that! Whee!) and thought the problem resided with…
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November 04, 2009 | Wednesday | 24 Comments
Heads up! Bound for the Holidays by Mackenzie McCade is free for Kindle download from now until 9 November.
I haven’t received word of this title being free from other retailers, though in past months the Samhain freebie has also been available at BooksonBoard.com. Any other ebook giveaways you know of? Let me know. It’s the beginning of the month - time to load up the ereader!
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