Stephanie-Laurens

Dear Bitches, Smart Author Podcast, Episode No. 9

Dear Bitches, Smart Author Podcast, Episode No. 9

We have a special podcast this week: both of us had the opportunity to interview Stephanie Laurens as part of her media tour for Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue, and to raise awareness for Avon’s KISS and Teal program. Avon has made a $25,000.00 donation to the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, and will donate .25(…)

WINNER of the Stephanie Laurens Backlist & Vera Bradley Bag

Avon put together this really lovely giveaway to celebrate the start of the new Stephanie Laurens‘ series, The Black Cobra Quartet. The premise of the Black Cobra Quartet is that there is a British traitor who is the head of the Black Cobra cult, an organization that is terrorizing villages and setting up a reign(…)

GIVEAWAY:  Signed Stephanie Laurens Backlist & Vera Bradley Bag

GIVEAWAY: Signed Stephanie Laurens Backlist & Vera Bradley Bag

Updated: We are extending the promotion until Friday (today) at 11:59 pm EST. Avon put together this really lovely giveaway to celebrate the start of the new Stephanie Laurens‘ series, The Black Cobra Quartet.   The premise of the Black Cobra Quartet is that there is a British traitor who is the head of the Black(…)

Giveaway Preview Notice for Stephanie Laurens

Giveaway Preview Notice for Stephanie Laurens

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that we will be giving away this awesome Vera Bradley quilted bag complete with the entire backlist SIGNED by Ms. Laurens herself (that’s almost 30 titles) in celebration of Stephanie Laurens’ latest release, Untamed Bride which is in stores now.  This giveaway will start next Monday, November(…)

Stephanie Laurens GIVEAWAY WINNER

In celebration of Laurens and the hero in pursuit, Avon has donated two signed books to giveaway: Mastered by Love ARC of The Untamed Bride The random winner is Booklover1335.   We have a huge giveaway for Random House books next week. Stay tuned. Send to Kindle

Your Most Cracktastic Author (Stephanie Laurens GIVEAWAY)

I’m not sure if I would say that Stephanie Laurens is a guilty pleasure or the most cracktastic author in my library.   I do know that I devour each release even though none have lived up to my love for Devil’s Bride.   I recall when DB first came out in 1998 that it was revelatory(…)

REVIEW: Temptation and Surrender by Stephanie Laurens

REVIEW: Temptation and Surrender by Stephanie Laurens

Dear Ms. Laurens: What can I say? I can’t quit you. (Note to self, this is becoming the most overused phrase in the english language, a close second behind “maverick” and “change” so please try to eradicate it from your vocabulary). Temptation and Seduction is like 50th in your Cynsters series and it features the(…)

In Regards to Series Poll

[poll id="122"] First, let me apologize for not putting up another poll for so long. I kept meaning to put up another one but kept putting it off because I couldn’t think of a good poll topic (if you have one, let me know – jane at dearauthor.com). Second, what do you think of series(…)

REVIEW: Edge of Desire by Stephanie Laurens

Dear Ms. Laurens: I’ve taking to reading a Laurens book every other release because I find that a year is a good buffer between books. There’s a certain, well, similarity between your novels and while your writing is quite good, sometime the stories seem to be copies (and not in the plagiaristic sense, but in(…)

REVIEW: Beyond Seduction by Stephanie Laurens

Dear Ms. Laurens: In the early days, I read your books the moment that they came out but after the 8th or 9th Cynster book, they began to lose their appeal to such a degree that when you made the move to hardcover, I left myself behind. Since the hardcover move, I’ve read only three(…)