Reading the description of the book, I really wanted to like it. We’ve got a heroine, Becky, who’s a survivor. Growing up was tough after her father and brother die, leaving her mother and her to scrape by. When she finds herself pregnant, her boyfriend, Dylan, demands she terminate and when she refuses he accidentally runs over a homeless person. He lands in jail after she calls the police, and as the story begins … Continue reading Her Temporary Hero by Jennifer Apodaca →
ETA: Apologies for the silence midway through the podcast. I’ve uploaded a new file, so it should be corrected. You may have to delete and re-download the podcast to correct the problem if you’re using an app or a player online. I’m so sorry about that! This week, Sarah and Jane attempt to answer two email messages, one from a reader looking for historical romances with mysterious moody loner dude heroes, and the other looking … Continue reading 128. Mysterious Loner Dudes & What Jane’s Been Reading →
So many interesting and funny things landed in my inbox this week. I hope you enjoy some of these links – they made my brain very happy! First up: how do you say stuff? From Scrin and also Karina Bliss comes this link to a set of maps published by PhD student Joshua Katz revealing pronunciation variations between American regions. Some weren't true of me at all, but some were spot on, and matched language … Continue reading Links for Your Reading Pleasure - Including Lots of Fun →
Y'all remember Jennifer Lohmann, right? She's the 2010 RWA Librarian of the Year, and we had a Photoshop contest to celebrate, playing with the cover of Karina Bliss' What the Librarian Did. The entries were amazing, and the winner is still one of my favorite cover mockups ever. I've done two book events at the Durham County library branch where Jennifer works, and she's still hosting romance reading groups, and trying to reach more romance readers … Continue reading Reservations for Two for Pierogies! A Giveaway from Jennifer Lohmann →
We start with a quiz that was entirely inspired by Linda Holmes' Television Pop Quiz on Pop Culture Happy Hour. Sarah challenges Jane to identify which book description is an actual book. Jane does abominably well – five correct, two wrong. Then we tackle reader mail. AWESOME reader mail. Or listener mail? Either way, you wrote, we respond. We talk about a whole assortment of topics thanks to your way-too-interesting email messages. A word about … Continue reading 40. Listener Mail - and A Quiz! →
The first day at RWA, I interviewed anyone who would let me talk to them with my portable mic. My day started over breakfast, when Patti Macdonald asked if the seat next to me was taken. Patti is from Texas, and has attended 7 RWA National conferences. She was kind enough to let me interview her, and I asked her about her writing, and her reasons for attending RWA. Then I sat down with Danielle … Continue reading 28. Day One at RWA: Publicists, Authors, Writers, and Readers →
Here's this week's top ten, compiled with the finest artisan affiliate sales statistics, with a spreadsheet reduction! The Girl with the Cat Tattoo (Book One of the Cool Cat Trilogy) by Anne Frasier and Theresa Weir | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo About Last Night by Ruthie Knox | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo …
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Last day to sign up for the Second Chance Tournament – voting on the Sweet Sixteen begins tomorrow! The voting schedule for the Sweet Sixteen is up on the DABWAHA site. The competition is fierce, hilarious, and friendly. And the audiovisuals continue: Sarah Morgan's son whipped up this bit of adorable for A Night of Scandal ( A | BN | K | S ). MelJean Brook vs. Nalini Singh and Meljean Brook vs. Courtney Milan … Continue reading DABWAHA Sweet Sixteen, and ebook Deals! →
The Round 1 Voting schedule has been posted, and voting will be intense for the next two days. The polls stay up for 12 hours each, and the trash talking and vote mongering has already begun. Then, just after the dust settles – Round 2! Darlene Marshall and Susanna Kearsley's elderly dogs have been trashtalking one another, and they're not up against each other (yet?). Kearsley is not messing around, either: her Twitter avatar is … Continue reading DABWAHA Round One Begins Tomorrow! →
Karina Bliss contacted me to tell me that Sandra Hyatt's posthumous last novel for Harlequin Desire will be published this week, and that she and other authors were trying to promote it for her in her memory, and to bring forth the royalty fairy for her family. I'd read Hyatt's previous book and liked it a good bit so I grabbed a copy and read it this week. OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS. SERIOUSLY. This … Continue reading Sizzling Book Club Pick: Lessons in Seduction by Sandra Hyatt →
Quite a few changes in the list this week! A few self-published books, as well as new series romances, mixed in with bargains of the classic romance sort. This week’s list is fascinating for me. Wild & Steamy Carolyn Crane, Jill Myles, and Meljean Brook [Amazon | BN: nook | Goodreads | Smashwords] Lord of Scoundrels Loretta Chase [Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo] Kiss an Angel Susan Elizabeth Phillips [Amazon |BN/nook | Sony …
Continue reading SBTB/DA Bestsellers List: 2-10 August 2011 →