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REVIEW: Man of the Year by Lisa Ruff

By Jayne • Jul 30th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Mrs Ruff,
Having read the glowing review of your first book at The Romance Reader, I decided to take a chance. After all, who doesn’t want to read about buff men paid lots of money to stay in buff condition while they live the American dream - getting paid to play a sport? But though [...]



REVIEW: Sizzling by Susan Mallery

By Jane • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

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 [...]



Lessons from the Pitching Mound by Roger Clemens

By Jane • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

This is a memoir in the making, don’t you think? Roger Clemens, star pitcher and first ballot Hall of Famer, puts his legacy in jeopardy by possible being on the juice. Sues for defamation against the accuser. Has all his dirty laundry and then some aired for the world to read. There [...]



REVIEW: Strike Zone by Kate Angell

By Jane • Apr 3rd, 2008 • Category: Reviews

Strike Zone by Kate Angell
I love sports so any half way decent sports book is going to please me. I give this caveat because there is probably alot wrong with this book (including the baseball stuff) but I still enjoyed it. I think it was a combination of Sports + Estranged lovers = [...]



Jose Conseco Needs New Ghostwriter

By Jane • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

Jose Conseco’s next book tentatively titled, Vindicated, has lost its ghostwriter/editor. Don Yaeger, a former Sports Illustrated writer, has passed on the project believing that there isn’t enough there to form a book.
Conseco’s first book, Juiced published by Judith Regan of the former Regan Books imprint, set off a firestorm within baseball when Conseco [...]



REVIEW: Hard and Fast by Lisa Renee Jones

By Jane • Aug 9th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Jones:
I can’t pinpoint exactly why I bought this book. I think, honestly, that I got you mixed up with a different author (*cough Lisa Marie Rice cough*) whom I wanted to read but hadn’t. So I bought the book and had no idea what it was about at all. Color [...]



REVIEW: Dinner First, Me Later? by Candy Halliday

By Jane • Jun 16th, 2007 • Category: C Reviews, C Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Halliday:
When I saw the blurb for your book, I had to have it. Jake Sims was a retired baseball star who was trying to make a new life for himself and his thirteen year old daughter in the suburbs of Chicago. Alicia Greene was a woman who had suffered a bad [...]



Nora Roberts Co-Brands with Baseball

By Jane • May 29th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

First its USAToday with its co-branded books and now it is author Nora Roberts. She has moved into icon status, if she wasn’t already before, with her very own bobblehead to be given away at the July 6th Hagerstown Suns baseball game. Hagerstown Suns are the single A affiliate of the Washington Nationals. [...]



REVIEW: Boys of Summer by Julie Leto, Kimberly Raye & Leslie Kelly

By Jane • Aug 7th, 2006 • Category: C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Reviews

Boys of Summer
This whole “acknowledging your illness as the first step to recovery” is not working for me. I have already said that I don’t like anthologies but I keep buying them. I blame this mistake on the fact that I love sports and who can resist the ass on that guy? No straight [...]