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Thursday News: a different view of ebooks, Carly Phillips joins Kindle Worlds, women and Hollywood, and cool graphic novel on art

Jan 22, 2015

Thursday News: a different view of ebooks, Carly Phillips joins Kindle...

Janet Publishing News Art, book-sales, Carly Phillips, digital publishing, Ebooks, fan-fiction, filmmaking, gender, genres, graphic novels, Hollywood, Kindle Worlds, Race 10 Comments

What Nielsen Bookscan data tells us about ebook sales cycles & the ebook plateau – This is a great piece that takes some of the other analytical treatments of ebook data and subjects them to a different set of questions… more

REVIEW: Transgression by Theo Fenraven

Dec 4, 2014

REVIEW: Transgression by Theo Fenraven

Kaetrin B- Reviews actor, bisexual, Contemporary, Hollywood, prostitute, queer, trans 5 Comments

Dear Theo Fenraven, I bought this book after it came highly recommended to me when I expressed a wish to read more diverse romance. I’m glad to have read it, even though parts of the story didn’t entirely work for… more

REVIEW: Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl

Sep 7, 2012

REVIEW: Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl

Dabney C Reviews Harlequin, Hollywood, western

Dear Ms. Dahl, I am still surprised at how little I liked your latest Western-lite book, Close Enough to Touch. I’ve enjoyed many of your books–especially the sexy Bad Boys Do (reviewed here, along with the other Donovan books, by Robin) and the very… more

REVIEW: Babes In Tinseltown by Sheri Cobb South

Jun 26, 2012

REVIEW: Babes In Tinseltown by Sheri Cobb South

Jayne B Reviews/ Recommended Reads 20th century, Hollywood, Movies, murder-investigation, Sheri-Cobb-South

Recommended Read

“In 1936, Frankie Foster leaves her Georgia home with high hopes of becoming a movie star in Hollywood. She soon finds work as an extra in a swashbuckling costume picture, but when the producer drops dead at her feet during… more

REVIEW: Good for You by Tammara Webber

Jun 2, 2012

REVIEW: Good for You by Tammara Webber

Jane B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads Contemporary, Hollywood, Recommended Reads, self-published, Young-Adult

Recommended Read

Dear Ms. Webber: The first time I came across your books was on Amazon when it recommended that I buy Between the Lines, the first in your Hollywood trilogy, after I had purchased a different YA contemporary. I resisted because… more

REVIEW: Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly

Nov 12, 2011

REVIEW: Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly

Jayne A Reviews/ Recommended Reads 20th century, China, Fantasy Romance, Hollywood, Recommended Reads, silent movie

Recommended Read

Dear Ms. Hambly, The title of this book is what got my attention. I mean, how could it not? Once I saw it, I knew I had to read it. Who’s the Rat God? Who is his bride? What on… more

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