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REVIEW: Upside Down Inside Out by Monica Mcinerney

By Jayne • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Mrs. McInerney,
Since it doesn’t look like I’m going to get to Australia any time soon, your book will have to serve as a travelogue of sorts. The Australian Tourism Board can use it as a reason why people should fold themselves into tiny airplane seats for an ungodly number of hours. [...]



Harlequin Lightning Reviews

By Jane • Mar 28th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Reviews

Drop Dead Gorgeous by Kimberly Raye. The premise was that geek girl saw her geek boy bestfriend get super hot, super confident, and super sexy and she wanted that too. Except the reason that the geek boy bestfriend got super everything was because he got bit by a vampire and now he too [...]



REVIEW: For Blackmail…or Pleasure by Robyn Grady

By Jane • Feb 22nd, 2008 • Category: C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Grady:
I thought that I had read you before and that you were jmc’s secret pleasure which was why I bought this one. Unfortunately, this was a case of mixed up names. I was thinking of Robyn Donald but must have fixated on Robyn, forgetting the last name. It’s not the first [...]



REVIEW: Boomerang Love by Melissa Lopez

By Jayne • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Mrs Lopez,
I decided to try “Boomerang Love” when Samhain offered it to us because I need a contemporary every once in a while to balance out all the historical stuff I read and I love to listen to Aussie men talk. Yeah, so I couldn’t actually hear Cohen or his brothers but I could [...]



Calling All Australian Romance Readers

By Jane • Dec 18th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

The first ever Australian Romance Reading Convention is being planned right now. Don’t miss out and please, if you go, come back and report the deliciousness of getting together with other readers and celebrating our favorite genre.
Thanks Diamondlil!



REVIEW: The Secret Rose by Laura Parker

By Jayne • Jun 11th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Parker,
This book goes to show that a good author can write about anything and make you believe. From your bio I know you were a microbiologist and that you’ve visited Australia but never lived there. Well, this book swept me away to the Outback of Australia during their goldrush and sucked me into [...]



REVIEW: Nightswimming by Rebecca James

By Jayne • May 15th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms James,
I read the first review you have up on your blog and that, plus having peeked at the ending, had already told me that this isn’t a standard romance story. Some people might be put off trying it at this point but I hope that they’ll keep reading this letter and decide to [...]



International Author Series: NYT Bestseller Keri Arthur, Australia

By Jane • Mar 26th, 2007 • Category: Interviews

Keri Arthur’s road to success was solidified with her appearance on the NYT Bestseller List last month. Her first sale, Dancing with the Devil, to a small print publisher, ImaJinn Books, in 2001. In an interview with RW of Australia in 2002, Arthur admitted that finding a publisher for her work was tough because [...]



REVIEW: Jealous Hearts by Deborah Miles

By Jayne • May 20th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Miles:
Update: The author, Ms. Bennett, was kind enough to send us a cover image for her book (Thanks Maili for the suggestion). And gave us an update on her writing endeavors.
I went on to be published in Australian mainstream as Lilly Sommers. I currently write historicals for Avon [...]