Comments on: REVIEW: Sex, Straight Up by Kathleen O’Reilly

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:53:30 +0000

To be fair, they publish books in a series, but I don’t think we get all the titles released by a particular line (e.g. all the Blaze titles) at the same time as you guys. Sometimes I’ve bought a Christmas novel that was published a year or two ago. Also, some of the lines are published as 2-in-1 books here, which means that the covers, etc., might be different. But I noticed that HQN has revamped their lines and covers, so some of these issues may no longer be applicable.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:08:57 +0000

Kat that hurts. Not publishing the whole series? Publishing under a different line? Ouch, way to kill sales Harlequin. I mean, jeez…it’s already hard enough to find these books as it is.

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:28:14 +0000

how long does it take for category books to be released down under?

For bloody ever, apparently. We don’t seem to get all the titles published here, and sometimes they’re published years later (particular if it has a seasonal theme). For a while, too, we were getting some of your Blazes branded as Temptation, which made finding a particular book all that much harder. Anyway. Enough ranting.

By: Sayuri

Sayuri — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:28:25 +0000

Christmas Eve? Uhhh!

Now I love Daniel even more….*sigh*

I completely adored this book and I am looking forward to the last with Sean.

I also read ‘Putting It To The Test’ and thought it was fab as well.

By: Phyl

Phyl — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:22:55 +0000

Christmas Eve.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:36:26 +0000

I never did, Phyl. Tell me though. :)

By: Phyl

Phyl — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:29:52 +0000

I finished this today and had to come back to the review to leave a comment. Once again I’m very impressed at how well a category with its limited word count can pack such a punch as this one did. Did anyone go to a calendar to figure out what day Day 104 mentioned in the Epilogue is? I thought that a very romantic touch. It was in keeping with the way Ms. O’Reilly used dates throughout the book to give us a grounded sense of a timeline and how meaningful various dates can be in our lives. All-in-all, this is a very fine read.

By: azteclady

azteclady — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:06:16 +0000

Congrats to the winners!

By: Jayne

Jayne — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:04:23 +0000

Okay, listen up posters. The three winners of a copy of “Sex, Straight Up” are ….drumroll…

Post #15 Susan G
Post # 29 Kerry
Post # 45 Linzi Conners.

Ladies, email me (Jayne @ dearauthor.com) with your snail mail addresses and I’ll get the books in the mail to you.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:34:47 +0000

I have to agree with Shannon, maybe I’ll give catagory romances a try. And use your site as a guide to avoid the “willing virgins”.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:30:19 +0000

huh. I am starting to think I need to give the catagory romances another chance. This is the second or third one I have seen in the past week with rave reviews.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:09:30 +0000

I think it’s great that she used an accountant as a hero.

By: Karen B

Karen B — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:33:27 +0000

This book sounds wonderful, please add me to the list.

Being an accountant myself, I must admit that there are some really sexy male accountants out there. :D

By: SusanL

SusanL — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:09:10 +0000

This sounds good. I think I’ll be on the lookout for this trilogy, with or without an autographed copy.

By: AB

AB — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:12:00 +0000

Can I please be entered too?

(Although I’ll admit I think I will be buying this trilogy either way!)

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:54:26 +0000

I just read the first one in this series and I loved it!! Can’t wait to read this. Winning it would be awesome!

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:21:46 +0000

KCO – where are you looking for those ebooks because eharlequin’s website sells all its ebooks and I think fictionwise and booksonboard has an extensive backlist.

By: GrowlyCub

GrowlyCub — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:17:36 +0000

Jayne, I think that’s an excellent idea! I went ahead and overcame my extreme dislike of the awful, badly designed eharlequin site and went ahead and ordered it and a few other things tonight.

They have free shipping till midnight and new folks get $4.00 off after signing up.

Still think their site’s a disgrace, but the ordering actually went fairly smoothly. Now to see how long it will take them to actually get the books to me.

By: KCO

KCO — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:20:32 +0000

Categories have such a short shelf life….

Why can’t they keep selling the ebook versions? I can see why the print versions are no longer on store shelves, but I wish I could find ebooks of some Harlequins that are only a few months old.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:39:45 +0000

GrowlyCub, the reason we decided to go ahead and post this review now even though the book isn’t due out until next week is to stoke interest in it in time for readers to find it on bookstore shelves. Categories have such a short shelf life….