Mar 31 2007
In this increasingly digital age, people are storing important content on their computers. Some back up their data and others do not. Even if you are one of the small percentage of folks that do back up, CDs and DVDs, the common choice for home computer users, are devices prone to failure. Each hard drive [...]
Mar 31 2007
Dear Ms Kelly, I’m not a gamer so I’m sure I probably missed some “insider” stuff while reading your latest book but I had a great time laughing my ass off through the rest of it. And I’ve got to admire the chutzpah of having Princess Zara have you as her favorite author. Poor Princess [...]
Mar 30 2007
Readers were arguing about Anna Campbell's debut, Claiming the Courtesan, before it was published. An Avon historical that was actually offending readers? This I had to see. And as I sat down to read, I expected to be shocked, looked forward to it, even, because I was really craving a book that shook up my [...]
Mar 30 2007
I was a bit flummoxed to read a post on columnist, Michelle Buonfiglio’s blog today. there is a scene that could be read by the uninitiated romance fiction reader as flat-out rape. That is the line from the post entitled “You Know She Wanted It”. The post itself is about controversial debut book by Anna [...]
Mar 30 2007
I saw this book featured on someone’s blog. The short blurb intrigued me and I went to the site and read the excerpt which really intrigued me. I immediately sent off an email to the Ace contact I have and begged for the book. The book was every bit as good as the excerpt promised. [...]
Mar 29 2007
Dear Ms. Hoyt: I’ve come to the realization that your books are not really historicals, but rather fairy tales set in the mid 1700s. As such, this story need not abide by ordinary societal rules which may restrict the fair maiden from her reward with a servant. This book, like the last one, is about [...]
Mar 29 2007
Last week I claimed that the only significant release to show up on list would be For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison. However, I forgot about the power of Jane Feather and her stalwart audience. Regency spies never lose their appeal, I guess, which is why the major publishers keep churning them out. [...]
Mar 29 2007
I laughed a little uncomfortably when I wrote up the The Leopard Prince review. At the end of the story, Georgina loses all her good sense and intelligence, flies off the handle and makes some poor decisions. Much like me. (I liked the book despite that). When I was writing last Sunday’s article about the [...]
Mar 29 2007
Dear Ms. Stuart, ummer Hawthorne, the heroine of the third book in your Ice series, is the curator for a Los Angeles museum that specializes in Asian art. She is also the owner of a blue ceramic bowl that her Japanese nanny entrusted to Summer just before she died. Summer's self-centered mother belongs to a [...]
Mar 28 2007
Dear Mrs Stuart, Some of your books I love. Some of them I hated. And some that I keep reading despite things which annoyed me. “Cold as Ice” is one of the later. I liked it a lot better when I first finished it but after a week of contemplation, all the little niggles are [...]
Mar 28 2007
While perusing the deals today, I came across a sale by agent Bob Diforio to Harper Collins for three erotic novellas penned by Delilah Devlin. The wording of the deal was so different that I wondered if it meant what I thought it meant. Delilah Devlin’s three erotic novellas, again to May Chen at Harper, [...]
Mar 28 2007
She’s got a new book out next month which I haven’t yet read. I think I read some of her categories a long time back. She did write categories, didn’t she? Prince of Magic author Linda Winstead Jones’s THE EMPEROR’S BRIDE, a new trilogy, to Wendy McCurdy at Berkley, by Richard Curtis of Richard Curtis [...]
Mar 28 2007
But it doesn’t make it right, of course. Harry Hurt III reviewed Suze Orman’s latest get rich book by opening with an ad hominen attack of Orman’s looks: There are many things more flammable than the subject of mammon and women, but most of them come in steel canisters stamped ‘hazardous materials.’ Among the substances [...]
Mar 28 2007
Dear Ms. St. Claire: I availed myself of the Simon & Schuster early ebook release program and snagged the ebook version of Take Me Tonight (Bullet Catchers, No 3) a few weeks ago. This week, the print version makes its way into bookstores. I had enjoyed the previous Bulletcatcher books. Unfortunately this novel required one [...]
Mar 27 2007
Dear Mrs Balogh, Yes, yes I know I said I wouldn’t be reading your next book without some great reviews but it’s hard to turn down reading a free arc of a much anticipated series by an author who has generally given me such reading pleasure in the past. I really need to put my [...]
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