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: Sherry Thomas
May 21, 2012 | Monday | 10 Comments
Beguiling the Beauty is a late Victorian era romance that meets my geek criteria because of its use of science, specifically the study of fossils and the rise of evolutionary biology. My husband is an evolutionary biologist, so needless to say I was thrilled when I found out that Sherry Thomas' new book has an evolutionary biologist hero. I'm a huge Sherry Thomas fan and this book did not disappoint. In fact, it is by far my favorite book of hers, in no small part because it features the line, "Thank you for dinner. And thank you for the pleasure…
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March 25, 2012 | Sunday | 6 Comments
The books on sale and discounted? They sell all of the copies. THE DEVIL YOU SAY! The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | The Amorous Education of Celia Seaton by Miranda Neville | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | ARE Requiem for Ashes by David Crossman | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | Ride With Me: A Loveswept Contemporary Romance by Ruthie Knox | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | ARE [SBTB review: B] Redwood Bend by Robyn Carr | Amazon | BN | Sony |…
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March 19, 2012 | Monday | 265 Comments
We have winners! The four winners of an ARC of Beguiling the Beauty as chosen by Random.org are: #120: JulieM #44: Terrie #95: secohen #257: scigirlcindy Random.org has also given me a winner for the grand prize, an ARC and a bounty of beauty products made by Sherry Thomas: comment #161, JennyB! Winners, please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing address. You can also try again to win an ARC at Sherry's Facebook page for the next 72 hours - and, whoo hoo! All of Sherry's backlist is on sale digitally for $3.99 right now! Not Quite a Husband by Sherry…
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June 28, 2011 | Tuesday | 10 Comments
I have two RITA® Reader Challenge reviews for His at Night, one from Donna, and one from ReadinginAK. Donna gave this book an A, saying, “So far, I’ve found that everything that spills out of Sherry Thomas’ brain is an A read. I bet her even shopping list would be interesting.” Meanwhile ReadinginAK gave it a solid B, so I’ve averaged the two to B+. Plot Summary: Elissande Edgerton is a desperate woman, a virtual prisoner in the home of her tyrannical uncle. Only through marriage can she claim the freedom she craves. But how to catch the perfect man?…
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May 20, 2011 | Friday | 17 Comments
Look, the world is supposed to end tomorrow, so why not three videos?!
Here’s a collection of romance authors making me giggle. It’s long, but worth it. Watch the whole thing, and stay for the outtakes where Deanna Raybourn curses.
Link!
Seriously. Bugger. Damn. Well done, ladies.
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July 30, 2010 | Friday | 6 Comments
We’ll be meeting Saturday, 31 July, at 3:30 pm at Il Mulino, the bar to the left as you walk into the Swan hotel (Across from the Dolphin). I know I said 3pm originally but the Il Mulino doesn’t open until 330. I will be there a bit before hand so I can make sure to snag some sofas or chairs, and we can get our drink on. Woo hoo! I have prizes to give away, there’s a bar (in case you missed that part), and Sherry Thomas is going to stop by - as will the author of our…
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July 25, 2010 | Sunday | 8 Comments
Watch this space: 9pm EDT begins our third Sizzling Summer Book Club event! The window below will become active and bubbling with comments and polls and crazy shenanigans.
Author Sherry Thomas will be stopping by, too - hope to see you here!
Sizzling Summer Book Club Chat: His at Night by Sherry Thomas
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July 19, 2010 | Monday | 41 Comments
The next book! The next chat! A live in-person drink-a-fiesta at RWA! A whole lot of summer reading! Clearly I need to cut back on the caffeine today. If you’re just joining us (Hi there!) it’s time for the third pick of the Sizzling Summer Book Club where I pick a book, you think, “ORLY?” and I say, “YES RLY” and then we all read it and meet up online to talk about it. Prior selections were Tessa Dare’s One Dance With a Duke (I have it on good authority that the dance was in fact “Pumping Up my Bicycle”…
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January 05, 2010 | Tuesday | 23 Comments
Combine romance short stories by some awesome authors, the addiction of solitaire and the appeal of beautiful graphics and you have one almighty unholy time suck. Seriously, some of you may never forgive me. I’m not even kidding. For a limited time, Heartwild Solitaire Classic is available free for download from Orchid Games. Orchid asked seven romance authors to write short stories for the solitaire game, and if you win a game, you get to read one. Take a look at the list, yo: “Clarissa and Hastings” by Sherry Thomas “Fate” by Victoria Smith “Last Words” by Megan Hart “Price…
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May 11, 2009 | Monday | 10 Comments
If you missed Not Quite a Husband: The Renaming Extravaganza, have a look at the entries, because they are hilarious. Sherry Thomas had a hell of a time judging but she did the deed. Winner 1: I totally didn’t expect so many entries renaming NOT QUITE A HUSBAND, since people haven’t read it and since I—rather vainly—thought ESCAPE FROM SWAT VALLEY was as good as it gets. But I was proved totally wrong. “The Englishman Who Went into a Valley, and Came Out a Husband” by Cathy is dead-on accurate. Sarah W’s “The Pashtun Passion Uprising” had me choking with…
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May 07, 2009 | Thursday | 101 Comments
Behold, we have a special message from Sherry Thomas, whose new website is sleek and sexy like things that are sleek and sexy: It so happens that I have set Not Quite A Husband—coincidentally—in a spot that is very much in the news: the Swat Valley, which in 1897 broke out in a fierce rebellion against the British, inspired by the exhortations of a certain Mad Fakir and is now, history repeating itself, a Taliban stronghold and a flashpoint of conflict between the Taliban and the Pakistani government. The events of Not Quite A Husband—a man traveling to the North-West…
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August 12, 2008 | Tuesday | 10 Comments
The trouble with stories wherein one party is betrothed to another is that the jilted person must either be unspeakably awful, or really wonderful but not quite right for the protagonist. It’s a tough balance. Unspeakably awful calls into question the judgment of the protagonist, and you can’t have a reader wondering if the hero or heroine is secretly a complete idiot for having chosen that turnip head in the first place. If the jilted party is pretty spiffy in his or her own right, there’s the risk that their relative spiffyness will cause the protagonist to pale in…
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July 15, 2008 | Tuesday | 10 Comments
Congratulations to the lucky folks who get a copy of the ARC of Delicious for their entries in the Mmm Delicious ARCs contest. From Sherry Thomas comes the following missive: Winners selected: Katie Dickson Courtney Deputman I read all the entries over breakfast. And I have to say, raspberries with powdered sugar never tasted so good (might also be the case that it’s the first time I’m eating raspberries with powdered sugar). Though the contest is about food and sex, inevitably, my little black heart warms for the love stories. Because love is what takes both food and sex from…
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July 14, 2008 | Monday | 183 Comments
Want to get your eager hands on an ARC of Sherry Thomas’ August release Delicious? You do? Really? Cool! We have 5 to give away, and your task, should you choose to accept it, is to tell us, what food do you love SO much that, if it was brought to you in the next little while, you’d be so happy you’d give a righteous sexing to the bringer? To put it more simply, what food do you love such that you’d happily bang whomever brought it to you? Sherry Thomas, bringer of the ARCs, says that she’d willingly give…
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