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California Supreme Court Rules Same Sex Marriage Constitutional

By Jane • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

Today the California Supreme Court’s decision dropped on the constitutionality of a same sex marriage ban. Specifically, the court addressed this question:
The question we must address is whether, under these circumstances, the failure to designate the official relationship of same-sex couples as marriage violates the California Constitution.
The Court found that the “right to marry [...]



DUELING REVIEW: Tempted by Megan Hart

By Janine • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Janine: My friend Jennie F. and I had so much fun doing a conversational review of Jane Lockwood’s Forbidden Shores that we decided to do it again. Lo and behold, the subject of this discussion is also a novel about an erotic entanglement that involves two men and a woman! This time, it’s Megan [...]



REVIEW: An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James

By Janet • Nov 26th, 2007 • Category: C Reviews, C Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. James:
An Affair Before Christmas is the first book of yours I read, and I did so without knowing where it is in your canon or how it relates to any other books (now I know that is it second in your Desperate Duchesses series). The title of the series reflects a heroine-centric [...]



REVIEW: Mad Dash by Patricia Gaffney

By Janet • Aug 20th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Gaffney,
Your newest novel, Mad Dash, brought home how much I miss your voice in Romance. The thoughtfulness and delicacy of your prose, the sense of fullness and vitality you portray in the fictional worlds of your novels, remind me why I began reading that genre in the first place: because the [...]



REVIEW: Mad Dash by Patricia Gaffney

By Jane • Aug 1st, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Gaffney:
I remember reading “No Place Like Home” by Barbara Samuel and just sobbing. My husband is lying next to me and looks over suspiciously and says "are you crying?â€? and I replied, "no, I think I have a cold.â€? Thankfully I was in a different room when I read this book [...]



REVIEW: Forbidden Pleasures by Lora Leigh

By Jane • Jun 9th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews

Dear Ms. Leigh:
My good friend called me up and said that she wanted me to read your latest release, Forbidden Pleasure. I asked her when the last time it was when she read my blog and she replied that she knew that your writing hadn’t worked well for me in the past, but that [...]



REVIEW: Just Sex by Susan Kay Law

By Jayne • May 31st, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms Law,
When Jane sent me a bundle of June release books, I immediately picked yours off the pile to try. I’ve long been a fan of your historicals (please say you haven’t given up writing Westerns) and I wanted to see how you’d handle a contemporary. Well, if you must give up historicals, at [...]



REVIEW: Broken by Megan Hart

By Janine • May 16th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Hart,
On the first Friday of each month, Sadie Danning, the narrator of your book, Broken, has lunch on an atrium bench. Joe, whose last name Sadie doesn’t know, sits down with his own lunch next to her and tells her a story, and Sadie imagines herself within that tale.
This month my name [...]



REVIEW: The Slightest Provocation by Pam Rosenthal

By Janine • Oct 11th, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Rosenthal,
What a wonderful, challenging, envelope-pushing, smart and astonishing book you’ve written. Reading it wasn’t always easy or comfortable, but in the end, it was more than worth every penny of the $14 I spent on it and the effort it demanded of me as a reader.
At first glance, the relationship between Kit [...]



The Insubordinate by Miranda Heart

By Jane • Oct 7th, 2006 • Category: D Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Heart:
I am probably the wrong person to review this book as I generally don’t like short stories unless your name is O. Henry and I am not a fan of erotica. I think this is an erotica novella and not a romance but I am getting more and more confused about [...]



REVIEW: Sex with Your Ex by Dakota Cassidy

By Jayne • Jun 30th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews