Nov 28 2011
What’s a good girl to do when she has a bucket list of sexy activities she would like to explore and her beloved fiance isn’t terribly adventurous? Jessica Clare explores this dilemma in her short Bachelorette Party. If the voice sounds familiar it is because Jessica Clare is also Jill Myles (author of paranormals for [...]
Nov 28 2011
UPDATE: Another big CyberMonday deal. Buy.com is offering the Kobo Touch with special offers at 69.99. ***** All Romance Ebooks is running their annual survey. They use this survey, in part, to present at the Digital Book World and other tech conferences. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Romance-eReading ***** All Romance eBooks Cyber Monday sale is a 50% rebate on [...]
Nov 27 2011
The 100 anniversary of the Titanic will be upon us and there is a growing body of fiction that will be commemorating it. I am not sure if the impending anniversary spurred Lily Daniels (aka Janine from DA) to write the story, but I thought it was a timely story. The excerpt is fairly short [...]
Nov 26 2011
It’s a little late, but I’ve picked the winner of the October comments who will receive a Sony PRS T1BC. Remember that I unboxed this device for a review, but all the pieces are intact and it still has the plastic around the edges which I did not review because I wanted to give the [...]
Nov 26 2011
Sarabeth Scott’s story reminded me a tiny bit of Daddy Longlegs with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron but it may have been a nutcracker story with Clara as the heroine. Clara is the female protagonist whose need for punishment is a deeply held secret known only to one man. “Stand,” he said. He did not offer [...]
Nov 26 2011
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** City of Lundun, province of Brittania, United Empire. 27 Janvier, 3.021 AGD In Silas Marrack’s opinion—which concurred with the [...]
Nov 25 2011
I can’t remember if I read Delphine Dryden before her submission or after but the one book that sticks out in my head is When in Rio where the hero says that he is a spanker with pretensions. I find her sex scenes to have a certain sense of humor, as if there is no [...]
Nov 24 2011
Dear Ms. Arend: This is the first book in Six Pack Ranch series which, given that there are six boys in the Coleman family, means that each book will likely feature one of the Coleman brothers. The oldest brother is Blake and this story has a friends to lovers theme. While I liked the concept [...]
Nov 24 2011
Happy Thanksgiving folks! After Netflix jacked up its prices and tried to diminish services, it bled customers like a patient with an aortic vein severed. Netflix profits have completely disappeared. According to Business Insider: Yes, that’s the latest news that Netflix tucked into the prospectus for the stock portion of its stock and convertible bond [...]
Nov 24 2011
Christine d’Abo‘s “Bruised Ego” reminded me a little of Fight Club. Just a little in that a man was finding emotional release in violence. In this case Lee was embarrassed by his own sexual proclivities but so aroused that he couldn’t turn away. He gets the name of Diana, someone who could purportedly help [...]
Nov 23 2011
Dear Ms. Warren: Robin used the word affability to describe Jill Shalvis’ writing and for me, I would apply the same descriptor to your books. They are generally affable with likeable characters and likeable settings, however, they’ve often felt truncated to me and this one more so than previous ones that I have read. I [...]
Nov 23 2011
I’m not sure how I conned Meljean Brook into writing a short erotic novella for this collection. It’s not a steampunk with mechanical machines or iron devices but a contemporary written with a weird twist. In many ways, it is classic Brook wherein she reimagines BDSM in a totally different lens. Of course, I think she [...]
Nov 23 2011
There are not a ton of new deals under $2.99 but there are quite a few new books to the list that are at $4.99. Both Avon and Pocket are experimenting with pricing with several at 4.99, 5.99, and so on. I listed only the $4.99 books. Before we get to the lists, though, we [...]
Nov 22 2011
I was actively seeking multicultural stories but unfortunately did not receive many submissions of those. I was tickled to receive a submission from Dionne Galace, a long time member of the blogging community and author of some of the funniest reviews in the blogging space. ”Tattoo” is not a funny story; however, but a tender [...]
Nov 22 2011
Heroines in romance have great latitude. They can be rich and very poor. They can be successful and a failiure. They can be pretty, dumpy, funny, dour. They are not all extracted from the same hard body mold like the hero. The heroine’s own agency can provide a source of conflict for the romance. For [...]
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