One hundred and forty-six entries, and two THREE ARCs of Victoria Dahl’s One Week as Lovers. Thanks to a generous, and I think anonymous source, I now have THREE bound galleys for your reading pleasure. SO! Let’s get to selecting teh winnahs! Kathy caligi CrystalGB Hooray, and email me with your postal address for shipping of book-ness.
I ended up with two ARCs of Victoria Dahl’s One Week as Lovers, her August release from Kensington. (Thanks, Kensington!) Given that Dahl’s heroines are usually on the neurotic, often-stalked side, and her heroes are often a bit tortured, let’s talk damage, shall we? What’s your favorite or most enjoyed form of heroine neurosis, or hero damage? Conversely, what tortured devices make you want to throw things? Me: I’m a total sucker for forbidden attraction, … Continue reading One Week as Lovers, Two ARCs
Our graphic and Sprout widget were spread far and wide, and Jane and I have picked a winner by random drawing. Congratulations to Carin from heabookclub.blogspot.com! You spread the good word about Victoria Dahl’s awesome release that will be in stores soon (if it isn’t already) and you won an iPod Shuffle, a $75 Gift Certificate to the iTunes store, a copy of Dahl’s super fabulous book about the dirty girl and the police chief … Continue reading Save the Contemporary, Save the World: The Winner!
Now that the price of a gallon of gas in the US is creeping nearer and nearer to the price of gas in the rest of the world, people are paying more attention to what they spend and how much they drive. I live in New Jersey and work in Manhattan, so I cross two types of driving cultures in my day. In Manhattan, there’s about fourteen bazillion different types of mass transportation I could … Continue reading When I get a little money, I buy books
Thank you to December Quinn and Victoria Dahl who both forwarded me links, each with eerily similar subject lines that said, “OMG DID YOU SEE THIS?” In a great steaming pile of “Huh?” the books that led me to read romance, the books I both love and skewer with abandon, the books (or book) I read last August and reviewed because really, while they reinforced everything I hated about being a teenager, they were a … Continue reading Sweet Valley High, v. 2008
An oldie but a goodie: Credit to Victoria Dahl for reminding me of its existence on an especially appropriate occasion.
Thanks to Kalen Hughes, I have spied with my little bespectacled eye the Romantic Times nominations for Reader’s Choice awards. Hello there, Nathalie Gray, Victoria Dahl, and Kalen Hughes. And Julia Quinn. And damn, that’s a LOT of nominees. How long is this awards ceremony? I’m STILL SCROLLING. And look, Dot Frank. She lives in my town. And PC Cast and Kristin Cast – hot diggity. And J.D. Robb. OK, still scrolling. Holy cow. Samantha … Continue reading I Spy With My Little Eye: Nominated Bitches!
Back, motherfuckers! I’m kind of bereft of words at the moment, because holy crapdamn I’ve done a lot of talking in the past three days, but here’s a sort of Highlight Reel from the conference experience, in no particular order because I’m too goddamn tired to be coherent: 1. We got to attend Nora Roberts’ pre-RITA reception, which was awesome wacky funtimes. Ruth Ryan Langan thought I was 20 years old, which was balm to … Continue reading More RITA photos, and a quick recap
…but somewhat less so than earlier. Only two pictures in which I show any sort of cleavage. Sorry to disappoint, sports fans. That said, so: more pictures coming your way, bitches! We finally get to meet PC Cast. The squealing and glee were immense. Apparently, immense joy makes PC seem as if she’s hungry for Sarah’s spicy brains, while Sarah looks both overjoyed and terrified at the prospect of having her head gnawed on by … Continue reading A little bit rackish….
Random thoughts and notes from the RWA thus far: 1. HOLY SHIT navigating to the Hyatt Regency is two bitches and a half. I’m lucky I have friends in the area I could call and to whom I could wail “Halp halp I’m lost and on some crazy street called Zang!” (Sounds kind of like a tentacled alien—like Kodos and Kang’s incompetent younger brother.) 2. Nobody has shrunk away from me in horror, yet. But … Continue reading Candy reporting in
