Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary

Dear Ms. Kelly,

What a great title! I had gotten this book last year just because of it and my review of Changeling Press made me want to pull it out, or rather pull it up on the computer, and finally read it. I’m so glad I did.

Toni and her best friend Mercedes are having a girls’ night complete with pink coconut sponge cakes, mead, a Ouija board, a scrying bowl and an incantation. It’s when they’re trashed off their asses that Drago shows up, summoned across time and space. Toni thinks he’s a figment of her wishful imagination and she’s happy to find that her made up dream guy is one hell of a f*ck. Except at the end, when the orgasms are flying, the asshole bites her!

Dear Ms. Cassidy,

I needed to pick a Changeling Press book for my epublisher review and yours caught my eye. I’m still not quite sure about the cover art (what happened to the heroine’s head?) but the book is great fun. Kind of “The Incredibles” crossed with a romance book.

Kennedy Smith isn’t quite sure what to make of this guy who’s telling her she’s some long distant relative of an Egyptian goddess and that she’s been picked to join OOMPH. The Organization of Magnificent Paranormal Heroes needs her as a positive spin-meister type, kinda person.

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Changeling Press, LLC opened its edoors in 2004. It publishes erotic short stories and novellas. It also has an Ezine (A Cheeky Changeling) with information, contests and giveaways, and two yahoo groups (one for a newsletter and one for a reader’s loop).
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Dear. Ms. Blazer,

I like a lot about Brand Name Dates yet at times I wanted to scream with frustration. I’ve had a hard time coming up with a final grade and might still flip-flop a bit more. You’ve got the classic elements of Chick Lit - first person narrative, good but not top notch job (applause for using photojournalism instead of the usual PR position, and you obviously know a lot about it), a pushy parent urging the heroine to date more, friends alternately helping and hindering the story’s progression, a hero present from early in the book who is basically a decent guy and a series of loser men who serve to show the heroine what a catch the hero is. I never wanted to toss the book and in fact read steadily until the end because I wanted to know how it would all work out. So, what didn’t I like?

Well, for starters I know this is Chick Lit and that things are played a bit broadly in those but the heroine annoyed me more than once. Jill has been getting some harassment at work and her mother’s ad in …