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REVIEW: Hard as Nails by HelenKay Dimon

By Jane • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Dimon:
Hard as Nails is an anthology that takes place inside a house that is being rehabbed. The first story is an architect working on the project, the second is of the lawyer to the construction company and the third is the project manager of the rehabbing project. All three books [...]



Author Talk Friday: HelenKay Dimon

By Jane • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Misc

There’s another AuthorTalk video up. HelenKay Dimon is the victim subject of the newest one.



REVIEW: Right Here, Right Now by HelenKay Dimon

By Jane • Feb 29th, 2008 • Category: C Reviews, C Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Dimon:
I mentioned before that your trademark seemed to be really great dialogue, snappy flirtatious banter. This book was no different. The problem was that while it had your trademark dialogue, it just had too much of it. I guess there really is too much of a good thing.
Gabrielle Pearson thought [...]



E! Online Features Guest Authors’ Picks of the Year

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

E! Online has published a 2007 best of presented by some of E!’s favorite authors. One said favorite author is HelenKay Dimon author of 2007 release “Your Mouth Drives Me Crazy“.
HelenKay Dimon: Voices by Arnaldur Indridason is the third police procedural in a series of Reykjavik thrillers. In a sort of ode [...]



REVIEW: Your Mouth Drives Me Crazy by HelenKay Dimon

By Jane • Jun 26th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Dimon:
When I read Viva Las Bad Boys!, I was struck by how great your voice was for smart, snappy dialogue. But writing a full length book wasn’t the same as writing three novellas and I admit to being a bit worried that smart, snappy dialogue couldn’t carry an entire story. I [...]



The Napkin Project

By Jane • Jan 26th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

One of the boys I dated in law school was also in a band. Sometimes they would drink. . . Okay, they would drink alot, but sometimes when they did, they would each take a turn at writing a song lyric on a napkin.
Esquire magazine engaged in a napkin project wherein they sent [...]



REVIEW: Viva Las Bad Boys by HelenKay Dimon

By Jane • Aug 8th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Dimon:
After this book, I am on an anthology diet because as a general rule, I find them dissatisfying. Your stories, particularly your first two, were like a breath of fresh air through the stale anthology shelf.

Viva Las Bad Boys is set, well, in Las Vegas, of course. It features three stories [...]