This RITA® Reader Challenge 2013 review was written by KellyM. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Romantic Suspense category. The summary: Searching for a sunken ship off the coast of Peru, treasure hunter Logan Cutter manages to pull a very different kind of prize from the sea — beautiful mystery woman Daniela Rosada. Dani claims she has no memory of how she ended up lost at sea. But with millions of dollars … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge: Vortex by Cherry Adair →
This RITA® Reader Challenge 2013 review was written by Willa. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Romantic Suspense category. The summary: Searching for a sunken ship off the coast of Peru, treasure hunter Logan Cutter manages to pull a very different kind of prize from the sea — beautiful mystery woman Daniela Rosada. Dani claims she has no memory of how she ended up lost at sea. But with millions of dollars … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge: Vortex by Cherry Adair →
This review was written by Randee . This story was nominated in the Best Romantic Suspense category. The summary: Thrill seekers Zakary and Gideon Stark travel the globe in search of extreme adventure, but a trip to Venezuela to jump off the world’s highest falls catapults them into a perilous game of life or death—where they don’t know the rules. Kidnapped with a woman Zak knows nothing about, the brothers are held prisoner deep in … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge: Hush by Cherry Adair →
This review was written by Sam . This story was nominated in the Best Romantic Suspense category. The summary: Thrill seekers Zakary and Gideon Stark travel the globe in search of extreme adventure, but a trip to Venezuela to jump off the world’s highest falls catapults them into a perilous game of life or death—where they don’t know the rules. Kidnapped with a woman Zak knows nothing about, the brothers are held prisoner deep in … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge: Hush by Cherry Adair →
Author Janna MacGregor is releasing her debut Regency romance, which features a hero out for revenge and a fake relationship! Doesn’t that sound all kinds of catnippy? The book, Bad Luck Bride, comes out May 2, 2017 and is the first book in The Cavensham Heiresses series. Here’s the description: All were shocked at the announcement of the “cursed” Lady Claire Cavensham to Lord Alexander Hallworth, the Marquess of Pembrooke, especially since she is already engaged to another unfortunate … Continue reading Janna MacGregor Q&A and Giveaway! →
Here is a text transcript of Podcast 105: Catching Up on Listener Email, Fandoms, Recommendations and More. You can listen to the mp3 here, or you can read on! This podcast transcript was handcrafted by Garlic Knitter. Many thanks. [music] Sarah Wendell: Hello, and welcome to another DBSA podcast. I’m Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and today I am catching up on lots of email, because you have all emailed me wonderfully … Continue reading Podcast Transcript 105: Catching Up on Listener Email, Fandoms, Recommendations, and More →
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Courtney Milan is releasing enhanced ebooks of her backlist, and wanted to host a giveaway to celebrate. Heck yeah! But of course, I have questions. Sarah: What's an enhanced ebook? Courtney: Enhanced ebooks are books that have an additional, non-book component to them–things like audio, video, pictures, author commentary. They're the director's cut of a book, except there are no directors. Here are two other romance authors who have self-published enhanced ebooks. Christina Dodd has put … Continue reading Giveaway: Win an iPad Mini, and Courtney Milan’s New Enhanced Ebooks! →
Ilona wrote to me recently, looking for a specific type of book: adventure romance. I was looking at my bookcase today (I'm a student who is moving out again soon so my books are all in a messed up order) And saw Scoundrel by Zoe Archer and remembered how much fun it was to be reading an adventure romance with an adventure in different places. I really loved having obvious bad guys who always lost, … Continue reading The Rec League: Adventure Romance! →
The RITA for Romantic Suspense goes to: Hidden Away by Maya Banks (Berkley Publishing Group Sensation; Cindy Hwang, editor) Hot Zone by Catherine Mann (Sourcebooks Casablanca; Deb Werksman, editor) Hush by Cherry Adair (Pocket Star; Lauren McKenna, editor) Secrets of Bella Terra by Christina Dodd (New American Library; Kerry Donovan, editor) True Colors by Joyce Lamb (Berkley Publishing Group Sensation; Wendy McCurdy, editor) True Shot by Joyce Lamb (Berkley Publishing Group Sensation; Wendy McCurdy, editor) … Continue reading RITA for Romantic Suspense →
The RITA® and Golden Heart nominations have been announced! Congratulations to the nominated authors and editors! Ready to rustle up some reader reviews? Last year, I set up a public spreadsheet of all the RITA® nominees, and we reviewed every single one by the time the RITA® winners were announced in July .I would love to do it again – and I hope you're up for reading and reviewing a book! Now that the nominees … Continue reading 2012 Rita Reader Challenge →
Let's travel! First stop: all of the world's most beautiful bookstores. I think a world tour is in order! Thanks to Daisy for the link. Publisher Barney Rosset died this week at age 89. His obituary is truly amazing: he published titles like Lady Chatterley's Lover in the US and defied censors to do so. He defied censors in the 1960s by publishing D. H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer,” ultimately winning … Continue reading Links and Picks and Stuff on Sale →
