Art

REVIEW:  Artful Deceptions by Patricia Rice

REVIEW: Artful Deceptions by Patricia Rice

Dear Ms. Rice, I bought this book several weeks ago after another of your books was featured in one of our daily deals. I’ve always meant to get back to your trad regencies after enjoying “Mad Maria’s Daughter” and the description of this one made it look like slightly madcap fun. The positives of star(…)

Wednesday news:

Wednesday news:

Employers’ Social Media Policies Come Under Regulatory Scrutiny – Employees have been fired for saying things online that companies don’t like but the National Labor Relations Board says that this type of constraint of speech is inappropriate. But in a series of recent rulings and advisories, labor regulators have declared many such blanket restrictions illegal.(…)

REVIEW: Family Matters by Barbara White Daille

REVIEW: Family Matters by Barbara White Daille

“Kerry Anne MacBride and her quirky family are a package deal-’get one, you get them all. The high school art teacher is stubborn and fiercely protective of her kin, making her the absolute wrong woman for a straitlaced, hardheaded, by-the-books lawyer like Matt Lawrence, no matter how attracted she is to him. And anyway, now’s(…)

Harlequin Does Fine Art

Harlequin is celebrating its 60th Anniversary this year and are exhibiting THE HEART OF A WOMAN: HARLEQUIN COVER ART 1949 – 2009.   Per the press release. “These pieces offer a unique insight into the profound political and societal changes that have occurred in women’s lives over the past six decades and will give you a(…)

REVIEW: Take Me If You Can by Karen Kendall

Dear Ms. Kendall: I can’t recall if I have ever read a book by you before so this might be my first of yours. It was a very uneven ride, but there were enough good aspects that I would definitely read you again. Avy Hunt is an art recovery agent for ARTemis. She breaks the(…)

REVIEW:  The Lost Madonna by Kelly Jones

REVIEW: The Lost Madonna by Kelly Jones

Dear Ms Jones, Last year I wrote you a letter about your first book, “The Seventh Unicorn.” Now, in your second book, you explore an art area close to my heart, Renaissance Italy, and include much more romance than in the first book. Thirty years after leaving Florence with a broken heart, Suzanne Cunningham is(…)

REVIEW: If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend by Alison Pace

Dear Ms. Pace: Jayne raved about this book when it first came out and it has only taken me a year to read it. I am not sure why I waited other than the fact that I can be a cheapskate at times and didn’t want to splurge on a trade paperback. But you showed(…)

REVIEW: The Seventh Unicorn by Kelly Jones

Dear Ms. Kelly, As an art lover, I have to tell you that your book is a delight. A delight with some problems as a true romance book but perhaps you intended it to be more of fiction with a romance element. I like the way you parallel your idea of the creation of the(…)