Oct 30 2009
As there are many ways to get romance wrong, there are exponentially more ways to get BDSM romance wrong. BDSM is tricky. If you’re writing it because it’s hot, but you’ve got no experience with it, you’re almost bound to get it wrong. Almost, but not always, I hasten to add. Examples of successful BDSM(…)
Oct 11 2009
Dear Ms. Somers: Thank you for sending me your book for review. It was recommended as an erotic shapeshifting romance. I’ll confess that when I started it, I thought it was a werewolf book, but it is not. The Pendragon Gargoyles myth is based on cursed (or blessed) creatures that turn to stone during the(…)
Sep 17 2009
Dear Ms. Roberts: I am trying to climb onto the futuristic bandwagon so I was excited when I saw this book released from Samhain this week. While the story had potential and I found it readable, I ultimately came away disappointed. Blademir, the Crown Heir to the throne of Barian, was sent on a diplomatic(…)
Sep 5 2009
Dear. Mr. Carpenter, Okay, short and sweet review for a short novella. People said you can’t write about rock stars. Well, I guess they’re wrong because here’s a book about one – and a woman rocker at that. Ami isn’t happy with the way she feels right now. The latest concert is over, the booze(…)
Sep 2 2009
Dear Ms. Benjamin, I’ve been in several weddings myself, including one that was almost to the “can one more thing go wrong” stage before we finally pulled it off. So I enjoy reading about bad bridesmaid dresses, snooty in-laws and other near misses and disasters on the way to the alter. Sometimes I feel like(…)
Aug 27 2009
Popular Culture Association is putting out their annual call for papers: We are considering proposals for individual papers, sessions organized around a theme, and special panels. Sessions are scheduled in one-hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers per standard session. If you are involved in the creative industry of popular romance (romance author/editor, film(…)
Aug 17 2009
First up is the news that Angela James, former executive editor of Samhain, is joining the Quartet Press folks. I think QP means business, no? In other QP news, Anne Frasier aka Teresa Weir is going to be releasing Bad Karma in ebook form through Quartet. Under the penname of Teresa Weir, Frasier wrote some(…)
Jul 16 2009
Dear Ms. Burkhart: As a college professor, I had to overcome very many squicks and ethics twitches when reading about a professor who not only starts a sexual relationship with a current student but ends up spanking her over his desk as a “Final Exam.” I also don’t do well with male dominant/female submissive stories,(…)
Jul 3 2009
Dear Ms. Holley: I bought this ebook because it was a new release from Samhain and because I found you entertaining and interesting on Twitter. (I think we shared a bad attitude Twitter day). I hadn’t realized when I bought and read it that it had been reviewed by Sarah over at SmartBitches. While I(…)
Jul 1 2009
Buy 2 or more Harlequin eBooks from Sony Store on Wednesdays & you’ll receive a code for a free ebook. Orbit’s $1.00 title is Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson The following are Forever $1.99 titles from Grand Central. Grand Central makes these deals available to all etailers who carry the Forever ebooks but not(…)
Jun 28 2009
Dear Ms. Winfree: I can’t recall why I purchased this book but I bought it a couple of months ago with two other books from Samhain. It could have been a “new” book or it could have been on the bestseller list. Those usually influence my purchases at Samhain. I thought it had good suspense(…)
Jun 27 2009
Note: It will be hard to totally avoid spoilers in this review. Dear Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon, Dr. Sarah read and recommended “Mexican Heat” back in February but it’s taken me this long for a spare moment to check it out. Hot action, hot love and hot loving all rolled up in one book.(…)
Jun 23 2009
Evangeline Anderson’s books are my dirty little secret, my secret shame, my love that dare not speak its name. I don’t know WHY her writing makes me feel oh so fulfilled but in such a wonderful dirty way, but it does. They’re so full of *angst* and *melodrama* and *gay for you* and all the(…)
Jun 8 2009
Dear Ms. Mitchell. This book reads like what I imagine being inside a guy’s head must be like. Lots of stonewalling, lots of mixed motivations, lots of confused emotions. This ability you have to get emotions perfectly right and to show how they are so very wrong-headed is both the beauty and the problem with(…)
May 7 2009
Dear Ms. Treanor, Ever since I read a historical of yours during one of our old ebook contests, I’ve meant to pick up another. It’s taken me a while but when I saw this offering from Samhain, I jumped on it. Christi Blythe works nights in a bar in a small hotel in the Highlands(…)
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