Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Sheikhs
October 04, 2010 | Monday | 40 Comments
Hi Harlequin! You know I think you are all spiffy, right? How’s things? I wanted to give you guys a heads up that there is a blonde girl who is confusing me utterly. First, she was on Julie Cohen’s His for the Taking, which I read and really liked - and which caused me to start a Cohen-a-licious attraction to anything Julie Cohen writes. I ranted about the US Harlequin Presents cover in my review, but I’ll post it here: Oh, my GOSH. The poor girl’s man hands and her THUMB. She’s like Sissy Hankshaw up in there. My gosh.…
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March 25, 2010 | Thursday | 67 Comments
In one of those, “Wow, everyone’s thinking the same thing,” moments, Faygie Levy at RTBookReview (who is awesome) contacted me about my thoughts on the number of new romances featuring small towns and communities. Starting with the steadily growing popularity of Robyn Carr‘s Virgin River series, along with Toni Blake’s new Destiny series (which I think of as, “Why, yes. Yes, I am excited to read about Ohio”) there are a number of series and romance novel collections set in or around supremely small towns. There could be any number of reasons for this trend, and I won’t jump in…
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February 13, 2010 | Saturday | 14 Comments
If it’s cold and snowy where you are, and you want books now now now, eHarlequin is having an additional-14%-off sale this weekend only for Valentine’s Day: Save an additional 14% off and get a free featured book at eHarlequin this weekend! Print and eBook. Much of the time the specials are print-only but I love when they offer both. The featured book is Sheikh Boss, Hot Desert Nights by Susan Stephens - there’s nothing better than someone’s sensual awakening, right? Question: is there Ambien for someone’s sensual awakening? What happens if there’s an anti-sheikh contingent determined to stop the…
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November 16, 2009 | Monday | 15 Comments
We’ve got a hellabig contest this week, and I’m so excited about it. Flowerpot Press, the folks who produced the Harlequin Notables collection of paper goods with vintage Harlequin covers on them, have provided two amazing prizes. If you are one of the two winners: you get the whole collection. Yup, you read that right. We have two tote bags (good thing they’re big bags) filled with one of every item in the Harlequin Notables collection. Not only do you get to keep your favorites but think about the potential: this prize would take care of a LOT of gift…
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October 31, 2009 | Saturday | 14 Comments
It’s not enough to torture me with your sexy maple syrup and your really beautiful mountains and your balls-ass cold frozen north and your sexy functional national health care plan, is it? Oh, no Harlequin up ‘ere in Canada, you have to taunt me with your Halloween party, too! For those of you not on Twitter yesterday, Harelquin Digital Team announced that Jayne & Sulemaan from the Digital team won their Halloween costume contest as The Playboy Sheikh and the Virgin Stable-Girl. No, really. Here’s a picture. HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!!?? I believe, though it can’t be seen in the…
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September 10, 2009 | Thursday | 139 Comments
I read this book because not one but two different people emailed me and said, to wit, “OMG you have to read this it is HILARIOUS. Like Pregnesia Hilarious.” One reader said, “I just had to draw your attention to a stunning read. It’s so bad, it transcends the line between bad and good and becomes rather excellent…. I can highly recommend Kendrick’s latest. Honestly, she’s usually one of the authors that I like - I kind of enjoy the hyper-realism of her stories, and I know what I’m getting. But, for me, this tipped over from presents into parody.…
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