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Thursday News: It’s all vertical

Thursday News: It’s all vertical

I’ve collated four interrelated stories for you as a snapshot of where entertainment / publishing may be going. The Macmillan one I’ve shared before but it bears repeating in this context. The companies are trying to create vertical silos of intellectual property. Instead of buying 50 Shades or Life of Pi from someone else or(…)

REVIEW: Archangel’s Blade by Nalini Singh

REVIEW: Archangel’s Blade by Nalini Singh

Dear Ms. Singh, Archangel’s Blade opens with a flashback in the vampire Dmitri’s POV, one that takes us back to Dmitri’s human life. In the flashback, dark, ruthless Dmitri is revealed to have once, a thousand years ago, been a loving and tender hearted man devoted to his two children and to his wife. Smiling(…)

REVIEW:  Hard to Hold by Stephanie Tyler

REVIEW: Hard to Hold by Stephanie Tyler

Dear Ms. Tyler: I was pretty excited to read your stand alone romantic suspense.   I think it did a great job of blending the suspense and the romance.   It was full of sexual tension but it also had a strong emotional impact even if I did think the villain was a little overwrought and the(…)

What’s Wrong with Massachusetts? (Or Lie To Get Laid and You Might Go to Prison)

In our ongoing coverage of what is wrong with the United States (soon to be expanded to cover wrong headed laws being enacted or pushed to be enacted in foreign countries), we include Massachusetts. A proposed bill would allow individuals who obtain sex by lying to be charged with a felony which would, you know,(…)

REVIEW:  Ben’s Wildflower by Carol Lynne

REVIEW: Ben’s Wildflower by Carol Lynne

Dear Ms. Lynne: Fellow blogger Karen Scott emailed me yesterday and said I should go and buy Ben’s Wildflower. I obediently went and bought it. About 10 pages in, I emailed Ms. Scott back and asked her if I had done something to offend her because I thought she and I were pals. Katie Crawford(…)

REVIEW: Undressing Mercy by Deanna Lee

Dear Ms. Lee: This was the first book that I read by you and the writing was good enough to get me to hunt down and purchase some of your backlist titles. I only wish that you or your publisher had told buyers that this book had already been released as an ebook with LooseID(…)