Things to announce! 1. Last call for brackets for the tournament! Bracket entries for the DABWAHA tournament will close tonight, 19 March 2014, at 11:59pm ET. Yup, entry time is extended – I misread the NCAA schedule, which we try to adhere to, and they have two days of play-in matches. We just get down to business on the first day, 20 March 2014. To fill out your bracket, go to the tournament site, and click … Continue reading DABWAHA Update: Voting and Last Call for Brackets! →
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Here is a text transcript of DBSA 81. An Interview with Kati D from DearAuthor. You can listen to the mp3 here, or you can read on! This podcast transcript was digitally sourced and crafted by hand by Garlic Knitter. Many thanks. Here are the books we discuss: [music] Sarah Wendell: Hello, and welcome to another DBSA podcast! I’m Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and with me is Jane Litte from Dear Author … Continue reading Podcast Transcript →
Sarah and Jane talk with Kati D about the books that brought her to review for DearAuthor, and what books she finds totally crackalicious. We talk about her disappointments with series that she has loved, the frequency of the word “Babe” in some works, and what she's looking forward to. Plus, after the music at the end, there's an outtake of Jane and I discussing our microphone problems. Here are the books we discuss in … Continue reading 81. An Interview with Kati D from DearAuthor →
More reader mail! Jane and Sarah answer letters about cheating and infidelity in romances, and one reader's ethical concerns about male/male romance. This week's music was provided by Sassy Outwater, and this track is called “Dragons,” by a Parisian group called Caravan Palace. You can find their album, “Caravan Palace,” on iTunes, and you can find the band on MySpace and Facebook. If you like the Podcast, you can subscribe to our feed, or find … Continue reading 42. Cheating Romances and Male-Male Romance →
Back at RT in 2012, Molly O'Keefe and I got to talking at the bar (like you do) (no, really, that's what you do at RT) and she told me she had to leave the convention early because her husband had scored tickets to see Bruce Springsteen live, and, well, yeah, she had to leave early. Because… Bruce. As y'all know, I live in Jersey, and I spent every summer here as a kid. Springsteen … Continue reading Molly O’Keefe on Romance, Springsteen - and a Giveaway →
Recently, after reviewing a book I finished only because I wanted to know how it ended, we discussed the term we would use to describe a book we're finishing not out of compulsion but due to morbid or frustrated curiosity. Thinking about why I finish books and how I feel about them while I'm reading made me realize some things about how I grade books. In many cases, I begin identifying the grade while I'm … Continue reading Reading Compulsion →
This RITA Reader Challenge review was written by Jenn. This book is nominated in the Best Historical Romance category. The summary: Cameron Mackenzie is a man who loves only horses and women – in that order – or so his mistresses say. Ainsley Douglas is a woman with a strong sense of justice and the desire to help others – even if that means sneaking around a rakish man's bedchamber. Which is exactly where Cam … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge: The Many Sins of Lord Cameron by Jennifer Ashley →
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 →
As Jane and I have been discussing, and as she noted at DA, 50 Shades of Grey has been collecting the type of media exposure that publicists have fever dreams about. From HuffPo to the Today Show website and television broadcast, to the NY Post and various Fox affiliates in New York and San Diego, the story boils down to: women are reading this book, it's become exceedingly popular, it's a sexually-focused romance, and the women featured … Continue reading 50 Shades of Grey: Why Is It So Increasingly Popular? →
Awhile back, in 2009, DocTurtle, a professor of mathematics, was a guest reviewer here as we schooled him on the best of romance. You can see the complete DocTurtle archive to see his serial reviews of An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer, Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase, and Sex Straight Up by Kathleen O'Riley. He didn't finish Dark Lover by JR Ward, but he gave it his best effort. Something about “tenure” and a “packet.” And things that were due. Every now … Continue reading The Return of DocTurtle! →
There are, I believe, at least 30 ways to spell “hanukkah,” which is an English transliteration of a Hebrew word, so there's lots of room for creativity. Like JR Ward, we are very free with the extra Hs, too. Thus it can be hard to find Hanukkah-themed romances because you might not be sure how the person listing the book spelled Chanukkah. I've received a few email messages asking about Hanukkah themed romances – and … Continue reading Hanukkah Chanukkah Chanukah Hanukah Romances →
