Nov 1 2011
Meet the Montgomery brothers – Beckett, Ryder, and Owen – as they bring an intimate bed-and-breakfast to life in their hometown. The historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, the changing of hands, and even rumored hauntings. Now it’s getting a major face lift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. [...]
Jun 1 2011
Yesterday was hate on romance readers day. I actually read one of these a week, if not more frequently, and generally don’t share them because what is the point, right? It is culturally acceptable to repudiate the romance genre and romance readers. From columnist, Kimberly Sayer-Giles, we have the “romance as pornography” meme*; Russell Moore [...]
May 12 2011
Facebook employed a major PR and lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller to launch a whisper campaign against Google. The Daily Beast broke the story and it is a compelling and almost unbelievable story. Burson-Masteller, for political junkies is the company owned by pollster Mark Penn, a chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s run for presidency. Confronted with evidence, [...]
Jan 13 2011
Is something in the water? We start off the new year with a rumble between PC Cast fans and Laurell K Hamilton fans over a slur against Hamilton’s fashion sense the Cast writing team integrated into their NYT #1 bestselling book, Awakened. Now we have Mills & Boon authors descending on Teach Me Tonight taking [...]
Jul 9 2010
Dear Ms. Roberts: I have to confess that my enjoyment of The Search is based in large part of my personal circumstances and therefore my review could be wildly inaccurate for others. The Search is about a search and rescue dog. I mean, it is more than that but it is primarily about dogs, the [...]
May 26 2010
Dear Ms. Robb: This is a difficult review for me to write, because something happens in Fantasy in Death that many will likely regard as insignificant, but which for me changed the series in a fundamental way. Several books ago, Jane noted that Eve did something at the end of Creation in Death that seemed [...]
May 18 2010
How could I resist another HOG (hidden object game) adaptation of a romance novel? This time, it's Vision in White, based on the first book of Nora Roberts's contemporary romance Bride Quartet series. The book series revolves around four childhood friends, who share a love for weddings that led each to develop a speciality of their own: [...]
Dec 15 2009
I have no idea the contractual terms under which Stephen Covey made his publishing deal with Simon & Schuster but apparently it is allowing him to sell his digital rights to Rosetta Books in a deal that will make two of his bestselling books available ONLY on the Kindle platform for one year. My guess is [...]
Jul 20 2009
Last week, Amazon crept into consumer’s Kindles and deleted two ebooks that had been purchased: 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell. These books are considered public domain in several countries but not in the US. The copies that had been uploaded were not authorized copies for readers in the U.S. Instead of contacting the [...]
Jul 9 2009
Dear Ms. Roberts: One thing that you never fail to do is make the setting come alive. The South Dakota Black Hills have never sounded so welcoming, so engaging than in your book, Black Hills. The story is in three parts and while I am never a fan of flashbacks, I did feel like the [...]