And the winners are . . .
By Jane • Apr 28th, 2006 • Category: Ebooks, Misc • •Dear Authors and Gentle Readers:
I guess it’s safe to say that we Ja(y)nes are suckers for books. We got a great response from our first ebook buzz contest. We will run this contest at the end of every month until August and maybe longer, depending on how well we like the books we read. Just because your book wasn’t picked doesn’t actually mean we won’t buy it and review it at a later date. Ultimately, we each decided to buy ten different books (or 12 depending on how you count up Megan Hart’s contributions). We will review three a week until the start of our next contest. Each book will stay at the top of the blog until the next review goes up.
Without further ado:
Jane picks:
- Raine Weaver’s Let’s Pretend
- Megan Hart’s Playing the Game (which apparently I bought from Fictionwise in January of 2005 and never read. Huh. Maybe this will fulfill AngieW’s April TBR Challenge. I saw that it was part of a 3 book series so I went ahead and bought books 2 and 3 and will review them together).
- Lauren Dane’s The Enforcer
- Celia Stuart’s Once in a Blue Moon.
Jayne went with the following:
- Marie Treanor - Some other Sea
- Shannon Stacey - Forever Again
- Summer Devon - Learning Charity
- Melani Blazer - Brand Name Dates
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Tracy Sharp - Repo Chick Blues
- Pam Champagne - Ribbon of Rain
In buying these ebooks, Jayne and I encountered several problems. I couldn’t find Raine Weaver’s by at her website. I finally gave up after about 10 minutes of searching the website and did a google search. Found the book at Fictionwise. Similarly, Megan Hart’s Playing the Game was a bit hidden. Fortunately, Ms. Hart has a search feature on her site which helped me locate the book page.
Jayne and I both had problems getting our books from Liquid Silver. I was initially very impressed by Liquid Silver or Siver, however it is spelled, because of the nice, very professional covers. But when you can’t download your book after several hours, you start to panic and exchange profanity laced emails with your blog partner. In a word of defense for Liquid Silver, I did get a help desk response and workable link at midnight which is pretty impressive.
Jayne still hasn’t received her download code from Triskelion. Maybe she won’t read Pam Champagne’s book. After all, if she can’t download it, she can’t read it.
Best regards,
Jane
Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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Sorry to hear you had so much trouble with LS and Trisk. LS is prety great about getting right back to folks of there’s a problem. Good luck with the reviews for the e-books. I liked Tracy Sharp’s book, myself and I’ve read a couple of Megan Hart’s I’ve enjoyed :)
Dakota Cassidy–author of that crazily titled book that strains your maxim to “not judge a book by it’s cover/title”. LOLLOL.
Good luck with the blog!
I reviewed Tracy Sharp’s book, and I quite enjoyed too.
[...] For those of you who don’t read Dear Author (all two of you, I’m sure), Jane and Jayne have made their ebook choices. I’m looking forward to their reviews, particularly of Let’s Pretend which I recommended. [...]
oh very nice picks!
I think I have Raine Weaver’s Let’s Pretend but will have to double check. Sounds good. Very green over the other two of Hart’s, I need to get those! Can’t wait to see what you think of Playing the Game. hmmm and the other ones in case I don’t need to get them ;).
I want Dane’s The Enforcer, so color me green again ;).
Stuart’s Once in a Blue Moon is an interesting story, I didn’ think it worked well as a stand alone but once I read the page of the other stories cece needs to sell - HINT - it made much better sense.
ooohhhhh do tell how Learning Charity is soon, sounds interesting and Summer/Kate is a great author.
Don’t know anything about the others. EEK I am late, off to work with me.
Sybil….LOL if I had more time, I’d have more time. Thanks Ja(y)nes for all your hard work!
Wow, thanks so much. Hope you like Repo Chick :)
And thanks, May :)
Oh, my. I’m honored!
Thanks to you two ladies, and to those who recommended me.
And I’m fixing that little problem with difficulty in finding the book immediately. (blush!)
Oh! Thanks Dakota for reading it! I’m glad you enjoyed it :)
Well, yay! Thanks for choosing Enforcer, I hope you enjoy it! And well, biased as I am, I think you’ll love Megan’s Playing the Game (Jack and Josie are one of my favorite all time romance couples).
Lauren
If you don’t get Ribbon of Rain, please e-mail me at pamchampagne@tds.net and I will send it to you personally.
Thanks.
Pam, I did get a dl of this shortly after I bought it online 2 weeks ago. I’ve just not gotten to it yet. Real life intruded for a few days. Pesky real life. I am aiming to try and get this one and my other pick read by early next week. Sorry for the delay.
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