May 22 2012
“A mom in her early fifties, Clover knows she no longer turns heads the way she used to, and she’s only really missed when dinner isn’t on the table on time. Then Clover wakes up one morning to discover she’s invisible–truly invisible. She panics, but when her husband and son sit down to dinner, nothing [...]
Dec 28 2011
Dear Ms. MacDowell, When your book was offered to us for review, I was intrigued enough by the blurb to request a copy. When I received the book and started reading it, I wasn’t sure what had initially drawn me to it. Not that it looked bad; it just seemed like the sort of literary [...]
Dec 21 2011
Update: Here are the winners of one of the re-released Gaffney titles: 1) Karenmc 2) Vidhya 3) Asia M 4) Evangeline Holland 5) Danielle D 6) Brenda C 7) EmilyW 8) Kathryn 9) TaraR 10) Frekki Please scroll to the bottom to fill out the form. Thanks. Jennie and I are the original Patricia Gaffney fangirls. Back in 1997, I read my [...]
Jun 1 2011
Dear Ms. Hughes, A story about the Jewish mafia in Cleveland, OH during Prohibition? It’s not everyday that someone offers me a book like this. Hell, it’s not every year that someone writes a book like this so when your publicist offered it to me for a possible review, I just had to take a [...]
Dec 8 2010
Dear Ms Moorcroft, Do you have some inner drive to write flawed heroines? Because both books of yours that I’ve read have featured them but here in “All that Mullarkey,” you’ve really gone all out and presented us with a woman who might trip a few triggers. “Revenge and love: it’s a thin line… The [...]
Aug 31 2010
Dear Ms. Gunning, You are getting quite the reputation for writing detailed, women-centric books about Colonial life in America. “The Rebellion of Jane Clarke” is the third book which centers on the people of the village of Satucket on the island of Cape Cod and it takes us ever closer to the point where Britain [...]
Apr 14 2010
Dear Ms. Tash, After reading and enjoying “Challenge the Wind,” I was excited when you offered your latest book, “Autumn Falling” for review. I wanted to see how you’d handle a contemporary setting and a first person POV from a slightly older heroine. And to find a contemporary using a small town in Vermont as [...]
Feb 17 2010
Dear Ms Pattillo, I’d call this book a loose sequel to last year’s “Jane Austen Ruined My Life.” It’s not necessary to have read that one to jump right into “Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart.” I also love that while you take advantage of the current “Austen craze,” this book isn’t one of the many [...]
Oct 13 2009
Dear Ms. Walsh, You don’t know me, but I sometimes lurk at your blog, Writer Unboxed, which is one of the best blogs for writers I know of. I’ve been following it since the days when you were writing this book, under the working title of Unbounded, so when Jane told me that we had [...]
Jan 28 2009
Note: There might be details in the review that some might view as spoiler-ish. Just an FYI. Dear Ms Pattillo, A copy of your latest book, “Jane Austen Ruined My Life,” was included in one of the recent arc packages Jane sent to me. Since I’ve enjoyed several of your previous stories, I made sure [...]
Feb 7 2008
Dear Ms. Wong Keltner, I suspect I’m not the proper audience for this book. I love young adult novels and I want to read more stories featuring non-Caucasian protagonists, but stories about young adults written for adults? I’m starting to think they’re not to my taste. Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is approaching the end of the [...]
Jan 4 2007
Dear Ms. Greene, Several of my friends count you among their favorite authors and have for years. Lately I’ve had good luck with the Harlequin Next line (which I understand is now defunct) and I jumped at the chance to try one of your books. Overall, it was a good experience but not the best. [...]
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