Jun 17 2011
Dear Ms. Kane: For an erotic romance, this book had both smoking hot sex and great emotional connection between the characters. Where it falters is in the tacked on romantic suspense plot and the totally WTF opening scene. However, as an erotic romance, it definitely delivers. In fact, of all the books you’ve written this(…)
Jun 14 2011
Dear Ms. Harris: Thank you for sending me your book for review. I suspect my review will solidify rumors that I just do not like erotic romance. I don’t believe that that’s true but I do find many erotic romances to be problematic. This is because I require some emotional connection to accompany the physical(…)
May 24 2011
A while back I was tweeting about m/m novels with a couple of m/m writers. I mentioned that my least favorite explanations for why women read m/m romance was “If one man is good, two men are even better!” Both of the writers agreed, and we moved on to other topics. I went back to(…)
Apr 23 2011
Dear Ms. Cunning: I can’t recall exactly why I picked up this book. It may have been on a reader recommendation or something else. But I did buy it and it languished in my to be read pile for some time. Erotic romance based around a heavy metal rock band with a lawyer to be(…)
Apr 22 2011
Dear Ms. Lynn: There are so many great things about your book that I feel kind of sad that my distaste for the heroine kind of ruined the story for me. Rock Me features a tattooed and pierced hero who lives an alternative lifestyle, one that is frowned upon by most of his family. Brian(…)
Apr 20 2011
Dear Ms. Barbosa, A while back you mentioned on Twitter that you were writing a series of four novellas, each written from one of four brothers’ first person POVs. The series is called The Gospel of Love because the brothers’ names are Luke, Mark, Matthew and John. I asked if these were Christian romances and(…)
Apr 11 2011
Dear Ms. Meyers: Your two self published books were recommended to me as examples of how the new romance author is taking advantage of the self publishing system. My understanding is that these two books are selling quite well. Indeed, Copping to It and Cop Appeal average near 4 stars or more at Amazon. The(…)
Mar 26 2011
Previously in the land of Dear Author, I wrote up my thoughts about the Out of Uniform series by Elle Kennedy. This is a series of novellas published by Samhain Publishing and each story features the love affair and subsequent romance of Seal Team Fifteen. The first three stories were reviewed here and the last(…)
Feb 10 2011
Dear Ms. Day, I never know what grades to give erotica, because, much like exotic foodstuffs, it is a genre that is peculiarly subjective to what Englishmen call taste, the French call bon gout, and everyone else chalks up to appetite. But let’s be fair, Ms. Day, most erotica is-’even without the idiosyncratic presence of(…)
Feb 2 2011
Dear Ms. Burton: Your book first came to my attention when you posted the cover on your blog. I am not a huge fan of the man titty but even I, a scoffer, could not help but be impressed with the rendering on this cover. This guy exudes hotness like a furnace at a coal(…)
Jan 19 2011
Dear Mademoiselle de Lully, Several readers recommended this book to me as the ultimate f/f/m ménage romance. They were all absolutely right. I bought it on Christmas Day (using my new kindle!) and I'm so glad I did. La Bonne was a delight from start to finish. I'm not going to include the back-cover description(…)
Jan 19 2011
Dear Ms. Rai: I don’t know about anyone else, but I read the Author promo thread every month and your blurb intrigued me. I bought it over at Amazon for the princely sum of $3.60. To give you a little history, I really enjoyed the first menage you wrote and published with Samhain but I(…)
Dec 23 2010
Dear Ms. Schroeder, It's cold and snowy where I live and I was in the mood to read a book set in Hawaii when I found your book A Little Harmless Lie on the Samhain web site. I promptly bought it and learned that it is the fourth book in a series called "Harmless" and(…)
Dec 22 2010
Dear Ms. Smith: I’ve passed over your book several times because I thought it was a Spice Brief. I don’t generally read those because, well, they are often too brief for me. When I was trying out my nookColor, I downloaded a number of samples and yours was one of them. Imagine my surprise when(…)
Dec 6 2010
Dear Ms. Kery: I’ve had mixed reactions to your work. I enjoyed your first one, Wicked Burn, quite a bit but Daring Time seemed to be more a romance about the city of Chicago than a romance between two characters. Other books like Sweet Restraint and Holiday Bound had complicated emotional connections involving other characters(…)
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