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110. Subscription Services, What Jane’s Reading and Listener Email

Jane and I are together again – yay! We don't talk about the lawsuit against her because, well, many reasons.  But we do talk about Kindle Unlimited, the KU All Stars, and a few of the different subscription services. We AGREE on a BOOK. I can hear you asking, “Really?” YES. Yes, we do. But of course we like it for totally different reasons.And Jane talks a bit about the books she's loved best recently.

Here are the books we discuss in this episode.

Christina Lauren - Beautiful Bastard Sweet Filthy Boy Beautiful Stranger

Dirty Rowdy Boy Cora Brent - Risk Bollywood Affair

Sarina Bowen - The Year We Hid Away Sarina Bowen - Gay hockey player

 

 

Book Reaper's StandThis podcast is brought to you by Berkley, publisher of Reaper's Stand, the latest bad-boy biker romance in Joanna Wylde’s edgy, sizzling Reapers Motorcycle Club series.

As Reapers Motorcycle Club president, Reese “Picnic” Hayes has given his entire life to the club. After losing his wife, he knew he'd never love another woman. And with two daughters to raise and a club to manage, that was just fine with him. These days, Reese keeps his relationships free and easy–he definitely doesn't want to waste his time on a glorified cleaning lady like London Armstrong

Too bad he's completely obsessed with her.

Besides running her own business, London's got her junkie cousin's daughter to look after–a more reckless than average eighteen-year-old. Sure she's attracted to the Reapers' president, but she's not stupid. Reese Hayes is a criminal and a thug. But when her young cousin gets caught up with a ruthless drug cartel, Reese might be the only man who can help her. Now London has to make the hardest decision of her life–how far will she go to save her family?

 

 

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  1. azteclady says:

    That first email had me bursting into laughter and scaring the office at large, it was wonderful (and totally worth listening repeatedly to). Thank you so much for sharing it, and to Kathy for writing it.

    And my only problem with having the Courtney Milan podcast split into two would be the wait for the second one—I mean, we are already waiting until next Friday for the first part!

  2. amousie says:

    Ah, a woman after my own heart. Shanna was my first romance novel and I suspect I was about 13. I also had a at least once weekly library trip with my dad.

    Great letter!

  3. Georgia says:

    FYI,“The Year We Hid Away” is actually the 2nd in the series about the girl trying to be anonymous after a scandal surrounding her family. The one about the girl who is partially paralyzed is “The Year We Fell Down.” I liked them both. I didn’t know the 3rd one was out, must go read now.

  4. amousie says:

    Sorry, Sarah, I have to call you out because I got pissed out over Sunita’s Twitter post. Jane can’t talk about the lawsuit but you can. You didn’t even mention your fabulous fundraising efforts and the outpouring of the community. Really, WTF? I’m sure Milan will have a lot to say next week but SBTB has been quiet for over a week. Your last post being the defense fund on the 3rd.

    Can’t talk about the lawsuit then how about an interview with Jane’s fabulous lawyer on first amendment and how bloggers aren’t always considered journalists and sources aren’t always protected? That most don’t have the privelege Jane does of understanding litigation or have savings to engage legal services? How about an interview with All About Romance? Book Smugglers? If they’d been served with a lawsuit, would their response be different than Jane’s based on their own knowledge and resources? How scared and screwed would they feel? How soon before their websites went dark? How about an investigation into previous bloggers (even librarian bloggers) sued by corporations? what happened to them? their sites? what would they do differently now?

    What about the whistleblowers who have come forward? Will the community support them beyond the this is horrible gawker newsreel? What happened to the whistleblowers who came forward in Romancelandia before them? Would they do it again?

    This is pretty freaking major and yet I’m left with this fuzzy feeling that Jane and truth will prevail because life is like a romance novel and Jane is in the right and good at what she does.

    Jane can win and we can still all lose.

    I’m angry and I’m disappointed. But you know what I’m not leadership and I have no horse in this particular race. If not talking about the lawsuit is the chosen course of action then so be it.

  5. Colorwheel says:

    Wow, I didn’t know that anyone had heard of Katherine Neville’s The Eight. Hee. It was my first romance-ish read as a preteen. (It’s adventurey/run around the world one step ahead of the bad guys, with a couple of sex scenes on the side.) So another lurker was tickled by that reference, Kathy!

  6. SB Sarah says:

    @amousie:

    I’m a bit confused but I’m also very sorry you’re so frustrated. Jane can’t talk about the suit, yes, but you’re right that I can. The episodes coming up with Courtney Milan are pretty much all about that, from her perspective and placing the suit in several different larger contexts. Most of the questions you raise are things we talk about, in fact.

    I hope it answers some of your questions, but if you have more, please feel free to comment or to email me (sarah @ smartbitchestrashybooks.com).

  7. Jane says:

    @amousie

    Sarah asked me if I wanted to talk about the lawsuit and I said no. Not only because it wouldn’t be appropriate per the legal agreement filed with the court but because I really just wanted to talk about books.

    The lawsuit weighs heavily on my mind and when I get the opportunity to stop thinking about it, it’s a real relief.  Sarah’s done so much to support me by setting up and administering the fund.

    Any lack of discussion about the suit is really at my behest.

  8. CK says:

    Finally caught up only to find that my safe, albeit, mostly unstable universe is about to collapse on itself because Sarah and Jane agree on a book. 🙂 The only constant in my reading universe (other than Shelly Laurenston and Ilona Andrews are freakin’ awesome all the time) is that if Jane likes a book, I won’t. (Yes, that included the Bowen book.) And if Sarah likes a book, the chances that it will be a solid 3+ star book (I’m a harsh reviewer) is a given. Now this. No. No. NO! I can’t handle the confusion. Please save my universe and go back to disagreeing about books. 😉

  9. RLJ says:

    So Overdrive, libraries and a different country.

    Great advice on accessing a larger collection on Overdrive, especially those more rural communities.

    For those in Canada whimpering in the corner and saying what about us? Overdrive is available at libraries in Canada. Also, if you are in Saskatchewan, all the public libraries are linked under the 1 province, 1 library system. I know this applies to all the physical books, but I don’t know what it means for Overdrive. So you can request a book from anywhere in the province and have it delivered to your local branch as if it was part of your local collection and without the hassles of the interlibrary loan system. Alberta has a similar system, except if you live in Calgary and then you have to deal with interlibrary loans to access books elsewhere in the province, but at least there is a handy link to the TAL collection on the CPL website. As for other provinces, I can’t speak to their systems, so check with your local library to see what is possible.

  10. Erin L says:

    My local library has reciprocity agreements with many larger county and city systems. I was able to obtain 2 cards to huge library’s just by showing them my local card. You’re local library website may have reciprocity information on it.

  11. Karin says:

    I was intriqued enough by the podcast to try out “Risk” by Cora Brent, even though it’s not my usual reading material. Wow, I got hooked hard and fast! Thanks for the rec.

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