A category to get your to be read pile jump started
Letters of Opinion/ Recommended Reads
Anthology, Christmas Stories, Hanukkah, m/m romance, Regency Romance
I’m not a huge fan of a lot of aspects of the Halloween-to-New-Year’s marketing and consumption extravaganza. I think Halloween costumes should be left to the under-12 crowd, I prefer to leave the country for Thanksgiving, I haven’t put up… more
B Reviews/ Recommended Reads
author heroine, mystery, Recommended Reads, romantic-suspense, Small-Town
Dear Laura K. Curtis: You and I have followed and chatted with each other on Twitter for quite a while. I took note when your debut book was released, and when I saw Liz Mc2′s tweets about how much she… more
Publishing Lists/ Reading Lists/ Top Ten Lists
Best of 2013, best of list
Every year we post our Best of the Year book lists. Reading is such a subjective thing so no doubt these lists have a number of books readers won’t agree with. The lists are not only flawed by the bias… more
B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
cooking, Hanukkah, Holiday, lgbt, Loose-Id, m/m romance
Miles thought he and Itai would make a great team, despite the infidelities haunting their past. After all, Itai is smoking hot, they’re both driven entrepreneurs, and they love each other. What else did a person need? Well, a lot… more
A Reviews/ Recommended Reads
disability, gay fiction, homosexuality, pacifism, World War II
Dear Readers, When readers talk about their favorite books that feature gay or LGBT protagonists, Mary Renault’s The Charioteer is usually at or near the top of their lists. Renault is most well known for her historical novels set in… more
A- Reviews/ Recommended Reads
1920s, historical romance, infidelity, London, multicultural
Dear Zen Cho: Back in 2012 you sent DA a blurb about your self-published novella. I remember being intrigued by the excerpt and I meant to request it, but apparently I never did. Stupid me. But it stuck in my… more
A- Reviews/ Recommended Reads
amnesia, baker, Brain Damage, Carina Press, Christmas, Contemporary, Holiday, Military, novella, second chance at love
Christmas is the perfect time to start from scratch Lieutenant Sully Jax saved his unit during an IED attack, but he couldn’t save his marriage. He can’t even remember it. Recovered from his injuries, he’s come home to the… more
B Reviews/ B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Christmas, military hero, Paranormal, Portugal, Regency, Time-Travel
Recently, Jane forwarded a review request email from Entangled’s publicist for Susanna Fraser’s story Christmas Past to the DA loop, and Sunita and I both expressed interest in it. We decided to review the story together. –Janine Janine: Christmas Past… more
If You Like
If You Like, law-enforcement, Military
Melissa contacted me out of the blue a few weeks ago asking if I would like to post an “If You Like” entry for our series. Of course I responded with a yes. (that’s a hint to all of you… more
Misc/ Need A Rec!
Author Promotion, Open Thread, Promotion
Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules… more
Misc/ Need A Rec!
book-pimp, Open Thread, Promotion
Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat… more
B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Contemporary, Erotic-Romance, fan-fiction, Motorcycles, Recommended Reads
Dear Ms. Fanetti: I saw Jane tweeting about your book and immediately went to Amazon to buy it. I love biker books (as evidenced by my obsessive reading of Kristen Ashley last year) and your book sounded right up my… more
B Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Contemporary, friends-to-lovers, Georgia, second chance at love, second chances
I fell in love with William Ashe at gunpoint, in a Circle K. It was on a Friday afternoon at the tail end of a Georgia summer so ungodly hot the air felt like it had all been boiled… more
B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Paranormal, Recommended Reads, shapeshifters
Dear Ms. Harrison, I’ve enjoyed the previous books in this series on audio – this is the first one I’ve read. Having listened to Sophie Eastlake narrate the previous five books though, I still heard her voice reading me the… more
I’ve spent probably a few thousand words chatting via email with various readers about this book so I knew it would be a great topic for discussion. Because I have a lot of admiration for Smith’s work, I was not… more