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Monday News: Publishing’s $550 Million Franchise; Appeal of the Bad; Flexible Screens

Monday News: Publishing’s $550 Million Franchise; Appeal of the Bad; Flexible Screens

The rise of the ‘Wimpy Kid’ empire – What’s a bigger literary empire than 50 Shades? Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series. Strangely you don’t see the “I want to die” or “Civilization is coming to an end” when the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books are being discussed. Having read three of them, I asked(…)

RITA Best First Book 2012 Interviews: Contemporary

RITA Best First Book 2012 Interviews: Contemporary

 The 2012 RITA Best First Book interview series concludes with two contemporaries. Read on for some very cool behind-the-scenes stories, and leave a comment if you’ve read either of these books, or would like to win this set. About the nominated books… Beautiful Disaster, by Laura Spinella: Mysterious Flynn was the most passionate and stormy(…)

Why Does the Romance Genre Have a Double Standard

As I read the opinion piece by Robin last week and all the smart comments, it struck me that the question is very simple even if the answer is not. It seems clear to me that heroes can get away with and be redeemed from far worse deeds than heroines. There is a double standard(…)

REVIEW:  Blue Sage by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Blue Sage by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms Stuart, Some of your books I love and them some of them are like Blue Sage. This was your first book I was disappointed in. It’s a “bad boy” book and if that isn’t shoved down readers’ throats a dozen times in the first chapter the Pope doesn’t wear a beannie. Charles Tanner,(…)