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Publishing Deals for the week of June 11 - June 18

By Jane • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News, Reviews

This week features big scores for the apocalypse, zombies, and urban fantasy…and a couple of historical romances tossed in. All pretty unexciting.
Never heard of the author, but this sounds kinda cool.
Richard Kadrey’s SANDMAN SLIM, after eleven years in Hell (where he worked as an assassin), a magician/hitman returns to Los Angeles to find out [...]



My First Sale by Julie Leto, It All Started with Cheap Wine…

By Jane • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Interviews, Misc, Reviews

Julie Leto is constantly honing her craft to be a better writer, so much so that her group blog is called the Plot Monkeys.  She’s had her writing ups and downs but Leto is a survivor, as any girl raised with three brothers would learn to be.  She’s on the high point now with a [...]



REVIEW: Phantom Pleasures by Julie Leto

By Jane • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Leto:
I’ve been anxiously awaiting this new paranormal series of yours from Signet since you announced it over a year ago. I’m intrigued by the premise and I liked parts of the story but overall, I felt like I was missing something when I closed the story.
Alexa Chandler is an heiress in control [...]



GUEST REVIEW: Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon

By Jane • Dec 31st, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

Author Julie Leto offers up a guest review of Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon. Boy’s Life was a book challenged by a parent in the Hernando County School District as “inappropriate” because of bad language. Mr. McCammon flew to the Hernando County School Board meeting to defend his book and prevailed.
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At its most [...]



REVIEW: Dirty Little Lies by Julie Leto

By Jane • Aug 9th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Misc, Reviews

Dear Ms. Leto
It was been debated whether you write to the market or write what is in your heart. I have always voted that I want writers to write what is in their hearts because it makes for a better read. Your heart, shows through in this story and the first one in [...]



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 [...]



Bookstore Etiquette

By Jane • Jul 18th, 2006 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

In a comment over at Alison Kent’s blog, Julie Leto posted something that surprised me:
In my mind, writing reviews like this one (not a bad review…a TRASH review) is the same as going to Walmart and standing in front of the romance section and telling people to put that book down. If you didn't [...]



REVIEW: Seducing Sullivan by Julie E Leto

By Jane • Apr 7th, 2006 • Category: DNF Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Leto:
I really liked your book Dirty Little Secrets so I thought I would pick this one up. I thought it was a waste of my $3.00, frankly. And I think a book really has to be a stinker to not be worth $3.00 (although I was disappointed that I wasted the time and [...]