As you’re looking ahead to 2018, whether you’re publishing one book or several, dropping the price on some titles, or launching a brand new store of literary and crafty wonderment we’re all going to covet like mad, I hope you’ll reach out to us for your marketing and advertising needs. First, as I mentioned this fall, our 2018 prices are substantially lower – by over 40%. Why lower prices? In part, by request! Because there … Continue reading Think of Us for Your Marketing in 2018 →
Sarah and Amanda take on your reader rec requests! We’ve got historical romances, historical fantasy with knitting, Jewish protagonists, heroines who save the hero, terminology to find the books you’re looking for, romances about single mothers, and historical erotica with menage. Amanda asks after Sarah’s romance writing, and, as expected, we talk about a lot of books. A lot. Of Books. Chance of cat and dog during the podcast? 85%!
UPDATE: Deal no longer valid.
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and so far, is only available on Amazon. There are a couple romances in today’s deals as well. This book made many Best Of lists and won an award or two. I also remember snagging it from my Little Free Library. Some readers say it’s a great examination of grief, while others found it just wasn’t for them.
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NB: This guest review is from Reader Tara Scott. If you want to read her previous guest reviews (and we highly recommend that you do), you can see them all here. Tara reads a lot of lesbian romances. You can catch her regularly reviewing at The Lesbian Review and Curve Magazine and hear her talk about lesbian fiction (including romance) on her podcast Les Do Books. You can also hit her up for recommendations on Twitter (@taramdscott). … I love … Continue reading Guest Squee: Edge of Glory by Rachel Spangler →
I’m personally excited about this Rec League we have! It’s all about cool or lesser seen jobs in romance novels. We did a giveaway where the one of the women protagonists was a magician and I asked what sorts of unconventional jobs readers wanted to see more of in romances. Several commenters mentioned that it would make a good Rec League post and we’re all about satisfying (heh) our community! Sarah: I love Nora Roberts’ … Continue reading The Rec League: Unconventional Occupations →
If you’re looking for some light history, and something to read with your wine while consoling yourself that your most recent breakup wasn’t that bad, this is your book. From Nero and Poppaea (…there is too much, I cannot sum up, but he killed a whole bunch of people in the aftermath), Lucrezia Borgia and Giovanni Sforza (in order to prevent an annulment, he needed to prove that his dick worked publicly. He declined), to … Continue reading It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright →
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf is a book by two women who are writers and friends. These women, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, set out to highlight some of the friendships between other women writers, and show how women have sustained each other’s personal and creative lives. The concept of the book is better than its execution. In the case of Jane Austen’s … Continue reading A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney →
Castle Waiting is an adorable, feminist comic that is currently collected in two volumes. I read about this comic book series in The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen by Hope Nicholson and sure enough, it’s entrancing. Castle Waiting is the story of what happens in Sleeping Beauty’s castle after the princess awakens and leaves the castle. The castle becomes a safe haven for many – including a pregnant woman named Lady Jain who is fleeing from … Continue reading Castle Waiting by Linda Medley →
The Last Jedi came out last week and most of my social media has been consumed with it. I was able to see it over the weekend and I absolutely loved it, so I’ve compiled a bunch of links featuring the cast being utterly adorable. There aren’t really any plot spoilers in these links if you haven’t seen the movie yet. … Polygon is keeping an updated list of all the celebrity cameos in The Last Jedi. … Continue reading Links: Star Wars Cuteness →
The Scotsman Who Saved Me by Hannah Howell is $1.99! This is the first book in a new series, Seven Brides for Seven Scotsmen. There is a “nursed back to health” element, if that’s your catnip. However, readers were expecting a bit more action based on the book description.
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Previously: a whole bunch of stuff. But Jamie got arrested. Again. AGAIN AGAIN. The title card is floating white fabric underwater, with the “Faith” theme playing over it. Claire voice overs that she was dead, and we see her, floating under the water: “I Felt peaceful, bodiless, free of terror, and free of rage.” Cut to Claire, in her suit (she changed out of her fancy clothes) in a carriage. They stop, and there’s a … Continue reading Outlander 3.13 Eye of the Storm →
