Mar 6 2012
Dear Ms. Spear: I mentioned a while back that I wanted to read your werewolf series and somehow your publisher, Sourcebooks, caught wind of this and the publicist sent me your entire series, both backlist and an ARC of the next book. I was overwhelmed with the generosity and sat down immediately with book one.(…)
Feb 21 2012
Dear Ms. Gray, When I read the blurb for Wars of the Heart, I was utterly confused. Let me explain; or better yet let me sum up the blurb, which goes something like this: Katherine Morgan is a diplomat from Earth, she thinks that someone is out to destroy Earth’s Ozone Shield, and goes to(…)
Feb 17 2012
Dear Ms. Rice: Sometimes authors and readers have some kind of strange sychronicity where everything that author writes hits all the buttons of the reader and everyone else on the outside looks on in befuddled wonderment. Objectively I can see that there are things that don’t work very well in this book. There is the(…)
Feb 14 2012
Dear Ms. Burton: Charlotte Wellington remade herself from itinerant carnival fortune teller to high powered and extremely successful criminal defense lawyer. Her past is one she doesn’t talk about but the circus’ return to town and deaths stalking women related to the occult make it difficult for Charlotte to keep her secret. Her sometime(…)
Feb 7 2012
Dear Ms. Robards: One of the first AAR DIK books I ever read was one of yours: “Walking After Midnight.” Now here I am, years later, reading another “walking” book that involves a hero and heroine on the run and trying to stay alive. My questions for myself as I started the book were will(…)
Feb 2 2012
Dear Ms. Gerard: I liked the poetic nature of the title given that this book kind of closes the door on the Black Ops, Inc., or BOIs, crew. Joe Green is indeed the last man standing of the group. The other living members have all fallen in love and had a happy ending. Joe’s done(…)
Jan 26 2012
Dear Ms. Julian: I liked the blurb for this book. The heroine is the daughter of famous CIA agents who have retired. Janey DeMarco works in the family agency that does everything from surveillance to retrieval of kidnapped victims. Their agency’s services are wide ranging, almost too wide ranging in my opinion. I had a(…)
Dec 19 2011
Dear Ms. Curtis: This is a fun spy caper book with a great and very competent heroine. It requires a huge suspension of disbelief but if the reader can let go, it is a fun ride. Maggie Kincaid is an information services librarian at a large university whose similarity to another woman who posed nude(…)
Dec 17 2011
Dear Ms Howard: The re-release of one of your only time travel novel provided a perfect excuse for a re-read. Son of the Morning was first published in 1997. It’s an unusual romance in that for much of the story, Grace and Niall, the two main protagonists are separated by the dimension of time. While(…)
Dec 6 2011
Dear Ms. Lamb: Why hello there. I had no idea you wrote such fun and entertaining characters. I admit that I was initially put off by the series because it featured heroines with psychic abilities. While Now You See Her and Dream Man by Linda Howard are two of my favorite contemporaries, psychic characters have(…)
Oct 31 2011
Dear Ms. Weir: I have been slowly working my way through your backlist titles, so when I came across the re-released, reasonably-priced digital edition of Bad Karma at the Kindle store, it shot to the top of my TBR list. I have to admit that I’m not the biggest fan of the “psychic heroine” trope,(…)
Oct 25 2011
Dear Readers: I ordinarily don’t pick books from the category Suspense line. Most of what I’ve read in that line has glaring problems in balance between a believable suspense and a believable romance but I like Elle Kennedy books and I wanted to try to get back into the Intrigue game (it sells really well(…)
Oct 21 2011
Dear Ms. Napier: When someone on Twitter mentioned that your older book, The Mistress Deception, features a virgin widower, I bolted right over to Amazon to purchase a digital copy, excited at the idea of a Harlequin Presents playing against type in this way. That was not the only pleasant surprise of the book, and(…)
Sep 21 2011
Dear Ms. Howard: In a recent podcast, Sarah Wendell and I talked about how there are titles we would like to have rebound into collector’s items so that they can sit on our shelves and be read and admired. Some of your titles would be on that list. After the Night. Now You See Her.(…)
Sep 21 2011
To start, in the better-late-than-never department, the Intro Interview has winners from the RITA Best First Book series: MaryK #21: the historical bundle—A Tailor-Made Bride, When Harry Met Molly, and Pieces of Sky (which won the RITA!) Jane Halsall #68: Marcella Burnard’s Enemy Within Kaya H #44: the YA bundle, with I Now Pronounce You(…)
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