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: Silhouette
August 13, 2011 | Saturday | 8 Comments
Y’all, it is HaBO-thon day! HaBOs all day, like a party with mysterious books everywhere. WOO! Pam sent this over, requesting help. You’d think this would be easy to find, but my Google-Fu and hers have come up empty. Silhouette Special Edition, probably from the 80s. Hero is a rock star. Cover has cherry blossoms on it, and I think the title is cherry blossom themed too. Took place partly in Japan. Had TONS of heartbreak…because hero was a rock star, and rockstars can be tools?? But tools in leather pants. I just remember LOVING IT. OK, I would totally…
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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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October 16, 2010 | Saturday | 19 Comments
Donna writes: Decades ago a flood decimated my book collection. One of my favorites, which I have not been able to replace [I forgot the title/author], was a Silhouette Special Edition (?) that encompassed the following: A young woman - a third grade teacher - won a trip to a Monaco-like country. Of course while there she met a gorgeous man who happens to be the heir to the principality/kingdom. They fall in love. She gets kidnapped. She uses her baseball throwing skills and her artistic ability to 1) draw figures of her kidnappers, 2) send a message for help.…
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April 03, 2010 | Saturday | 15 Comments
Harriett has come up empty in her attempts at Google-Fu, so she’s pleading for the help of the Bitchery: I have a HaBO request, and I’m hoping you’ll help me find a romance novel that I checked out from a library while on summer vacation about 15 years ago and it’s stuck with me ever since: Like I said, I first read it in the mid-1990s, and the book was either a Silhouette novel or Harlequin Super-Romance. I think the cover had a painting of a man and a woman sitting on porch steps, with the woman leaning back in…
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March 22, 2010 | Monday | 139 Comments
Nonnie’s back! Our favorite anonymous reviewer, back for more fun and reviews-in-list-formation with a look at Diana Palmer’s Iron Cowboy. The One That Made Me Cry (With Laughter) By Nonnie There are a few things you need to know before you start reading a Diana Palmer novel: There is a 95% chance biscuits will be involved. Women’s rights are a nebulous, easily dismissed issue. Any slang in the book will come straight out of the 70s, along with most clothing styles, despite the fact that the books are meant to be contemporary romances. The hero will be at least 12…
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February 13, 2010 | Saturday | 9 Comments
Lisa writes: I have beaten every bush in the internet trying to find this book. I believe it was a Silhouette Desire (but I could be wrong). She was a writer for a newspaper in San Francisco who goes regularly to a restaurant in Sausalito and sees this hunky guy whom she talks about (and calls “Sam” because she doesn’t know his real name) in her weekly column. He finds her and they have this tryst and she blows it by dumping him because she’s fallen in love with him but apologizes in her column and asks him to meet…
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January 20, 2010 | Wednesday | 34 Comments
Prince Joe is among the most beloved old categories. It’s a vintage Suzanne Brockmann, featuring her hallmark SEALs fighting terrorists while meeting up with fine noble women. When I mocked a bit of the novel on Twitter, the small taste of outrage that I would snark on Prince Joe leads me to believe that this review will not be too popular. Honestly, Prince Joe didn’t do it for me. Hark! A plot summary: Joe Catalanotto is a Navy SEAL who happens to look just like a selfish, boorish buttnoid of a prince of some small mythical country named -stan, and…
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January 09, 2010 | Saturday | 49 Comments
Sharron writes: So I read this story a whole lot of years ago. I can remember it clearly enough to know I adored it; not enough to actually remember the bloody title. Or author. Or any character names. Our hero: distant, brooding English movie actor with a secret childhood trauma. His speciality? Horror movies (including the Slasher Charlie series, Blackbeard, and Dybbuk, which was his breakout role). He plays monsters, in short. Totally gone off women because of all the women who wanted to sleep with the monster. He shagged most of them, then went off them once he realised…
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October 20, 2009 | Tuesday | 57 Comments
Bitchery reader Tamsin (Gosh I dig that name) writes: I’m searching for the title and author of a book I read about ten years ago as a teen. My mother and I were discussing romance novels recently and both recalled this one but it has either been lost or trashed. As far as I remember, it would have been published in the early / mid nineties, likely as a Harlequin or Silhouette title. The book starts out with the heroine kidnapped and being held in some isolated cabin…. somewhere. Enter hero who has been sent by her family to rescue…
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September 24, 2009 | Thursday | 24 Comments
Who are the people in the neighborhood, the people in the sidebar each day? They’re the advertisers, and I’m starting a new feature where each month I give you a round up of who is supporting the site this month. The advertisers in the neighborhood help me run contests, pay for international postage, do some conference travel, pay for postage, cover fees and web hosting, assist in bribery of the Esosoft technical support staff when we Google bomb Amazon on Easter Sunday, underwrite postage and cover other expenses like postage. (Guess which is the largest item in my budget?) So…
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September 09, 2009 | Wednesday | 26 Comments
Of the four category books that I have kept over the years – through numerous moves and countless reassessing of whether to keep this book or that – two of them were written by Anne Stuart. Somehow, I lost track of her over the years, so I was thrilled when I discovered the Ice series. I power-housed through those books! Yeah, the heroes are Alpha to a near-sociopathic degree. Yeah, more than one of them have come pretty close to actually killing the heroine before finding themselves overwhelmed with some previously-unknown reluctance, all the while trying desperately not to give…
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September 03, 2009 | Thursday | 83 Comments
Last night on the Twitter feed I had a ripping good conversation with so many people about their favorite Harlequin lines and which authors are absolute never-fail for them. So many people mentioned the Harlequin Presents line, while I’m partial to the Silhouette Desire line. Authors that make the autobuy list of many on Twitter last night included Sarah Mayberry, Cheryl St.John and Karen Templeton (from Sybil), Sharon Kendrick, Anne McAllister, India Grey, Day LeClaire, Leslie LaFoy, Julia James, Lynne Graham (from Lynne Connolly), Allison Leigh, Christine Rimmer Maya Banks), Nancy Warren, Emilie Rose, Kathie Denosky, Yvonne Lindsay, Anne McAllister,…
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August 30, 2009 | Sunday | 2 Comments
Since getting a hold of my Sony Reader I now characterize my life in two parts: BS and AS (Before Sony; After Sony, natch). Before Sony, my TBR pile overflowed ominously, the uncracked spines of unread books glaring at me whenever I entered my office. They glared even harder when new books joined them, impulse buys I can’t resist when I go to a bookstore or a store with a book section. Because of the volume of books left unattended, I find myself less and less willing to put a dent in the pile because I’m the kind of reader…
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July 16, 2009 | Thursday | 10 Comments
Sonia hopes y’all can help her find the first romance she ever read: I live in London, England and have recently found your website due to my desire to find the first romance book I read, at the not so young age of 14 or 15! Unfortunately I cannot remember the title (pain in the neck, I know) but do know that it was a Silhouette (I think it was a Silhouette Romance but can’t be 100 per cent certain) and I read it in either 1984 or 1985. The cover of the book is violet in colour. The story…
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July 11, 2009 | Saturday | 4 Comments
Over on Achewood, Williams-Sonoma’s catalog is being rewritten—romance style. I wheezed at this one: What’s the sound of a million Italian caper bowls gettin’ sold? The sound of this piece of paper, existing. I live near a Williams-Sonoma, and the window adverts drive me batty: “Now that I’ve found love, what more do I need?” “Oh, you absolutely need a $45 lemon zester, right, Hubby?” *crickets* [Thanks to Brandy for the link.] And heads up Harlequin lovers with eReader devices (like Palm, Blackberry, or iPhone). I have news from HQN-HQ about a sale at eReader.com: Harlequin ebook bundles for the…
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