Barbara J. Hancock

What Janine is Reading — April and May 2012

What Janine is Reading — April and May 2012

My hot reading streak in February and March turned into a reading slump in April. For a little while there, I couldn’t get more than a few pages into anything I picked up. I couldn’t even tell you guys what I tried to read at that time, because I didn’t make it far into anything(…)

REVIEW:  Silent Surrender by Barbara J. Hancock

REVIEW: Silent Surrender by Barbara J. Hancock

Dear Ms. Hancock, After reading and reviewing your impressive novella, Ghost in the Machine, I was eager for more of your work and curious as to what your writing was like in other genres. Silent Surrender, your new Spice Brief, caught my attention and I decided to try it. Alexia arrives at the Rivera hotel(…)

REVIEW: Ghost in the Machine by Barbara J. Hancock

REVIEW: Ghost in the Machine by Barbara J. Hancock

Dear Ms. Hancock, Your 88 page post-apocalyptic romance novella, Ghost in the Machine, published by Samhain, was unlike any other romance I’ve read before. As I was reading it, I kept thinking of movies like the original “Terminator” and “28 Days Later” – dark yet ultimately uplifting stories about human beings struggling to survive in(…)

REVIEW: Wilderness by Barbara J. Hancock

REVIEW: Wilderness by Barbara J. Hancock

Dear Ms. Hancock, If I recall correctly from the email Harlequin/Silhouette sent Dear Author, you’re a new author they discovered via email submission.   I always look forward to reading new authors in the hope of finding someone I’ll love.   And at these short fiction lengths, it’s a minimal time commitment, which means less risk for(…)