Susan-Mallery

Thursday Midday Links: Author Promo, Beyond the Book Trailer

Thursday Midday Links: Author Promo, Beyond the Book Trailer

I thought this was a clever author promotion.   The magazine features the wedding of the couple in the first Fool’s Gold book by Susan Mallery and includes references to many parts of the story.   It’s one of the neater online author promos I’ve seen. I like it more than author videos.   Thoughts? ***** Speaking of(…)

REVIEW: Almost Perfect by Susan Mallery

REVIEW: Almost Perfect by Susan Mallery

Dear Ms. Mallery: As you might have guessed, I have a love/hate relationship with your books.   My favorite is Simply Irresistible and I don't know if I could pinpoint exactly why but it is a contemporary I recommend with some regularity.   (I tried to give it to some reporter for NBC at the RWA in(…)

REVIEW: Chasing Perfect by Susan Mallery

REVIEW: Chasing Perfect by Susan Mallery

Dear Ms. Mallery: I liked this book but not as much as I thought I would. Maybe in another re-read it would be a favorite but for some reason I never became emotionally engaged. The hook is that Fool’s Gold is a town with too many women and not enough men.    Charity Jones   is(…)

REVIEW: Sweet Trouble by Susan Mallery

Dear Ms. Mallery: When I was a kid, my brothers got the Boys’ Life magazine and on the back of the magazine, next to the Sea Monkeys advertisement (Oh, how I wanted that!) was the ubiquitous Charles Atlas 97 pound weakling ad. It was a cartoon that showed some guy getting sand kicked in his(…)

REVIEW: Sweet Spot by Susan Mallery

Dear Ms. Mallery: The benefit of reading books out of order is you don’t get all that messy character build up. Yes, that is a bit tongue in cheek, but the truth is, if I had read Sweet Talk first, I don’t know if I would have liked Sweet Spot as much (again with the(…)

REVIEW: Sweet Talk by Susan Mallery

Dear Ms. Mallery: July, August, and September sees the release of your Keys’ Bakery sisters series. The series begins with Claire, a piano virtuoso. Claire has been estranged from her family since, well, almost forever. When she was 3 years old, she walked up to a piano and started playing and her life changed forever.(…)

REVIEW: Sizzling by Susan Mallery

Dear Ms. Mallery: This is Book 3 in the Buchanan series and it features youngest brother Reid who happens to be a famous former baseball player who suffered a career ending shoulder injury the previous year. He’d rather be playing ball than tending bar at one of the Buchanan’s restaurants, but at least he can(…)

REVIEW: Irresistible by Susan Mallery

Dear Ms. Mallery: This is the first Buchanan book that I read but the second in the series. I think its my favorite Mallery book I’ve read in my recent glom. Elissa Towers is a woman who has made some past bad mistakes and is still paying for them, but she’s righting her ship and(…)

REVIEW: Delicious by Susan Mallery (Buchanan Book 1)

Dear Ms. Mallery: I’ve gone on a bit of a Mallery glom and the readers here will have to suffer along with me. Delicious is the second book I read in the Buchanan series. I read book 2, Irresistible, first. I’m not sure whether knowing the outcome of the story in Delicious affected my enjoyment(…)

REVIEW:  Accidentally Yours by Susan Mallery

REVIEW: Accidentally Yours by Susan Mallery

Dear Ms. Mallery: Accidentally Yours relies on the premise that it is okay for a mother to do anything to save her child. And by anything, I mean, extortion, bribery, and emotional blackmail. The biggest problem with this book is that it plays off the mother’s actions as cute and endearing rather than reprehensible, but(…)

REVIEW: The Sheik and The Virgin Secretary by Susan Mallery

Dear Ms. Mallery: In an effort to broaden my horizons and understand the appeal of the category romance and to support Harlequin’s phenomenal digital effort, I’ve taken to buying two or three series books a month. A while back I purchased The Sheik and The Virgin Secretary because the title exemplified two of the most(…)

Winners of the Jill Shalvis Contest and the Rita Ballot Contest

Ashley Rhonda First one to email me at jane at dearauthor dot com gets choice of paper or ebook. Winners of the RITA Balloting Contest: mekool rlbayne If you don’t know what the Reader Ballot Contest is about, read here and here. Essentially, you fill out a ballot and have a chance to win a(…)