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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 [...]



REVIEW: Shadows of the Night by Lydia Joyce

By Janine • Mar 5th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Joyce,
When we first encounter Colin Radcliffe, the hero of your fifth book, Shadows of the Night, it is the morning of his wedding day and he has just risen from the bed he shared with Emma Morel, his married mistress. Colin agrees to Emma’s suggestion that they spend a few months apart [...]



REVIEW: The Secret Rose by Laura Parker

By Jayne • Jun 11th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Parker,
This book goes to show that a good author can write about anything and make you believe. From your bio I know you were a microbiologist and that you’ve visited Australia but never lived there. Well, this book swept me away to the Outback of Australia during their goldrush and sucked me into [...]



REVIEW: The Vagabond Duchess by Claire Thornton

By Jayne • May 23rd, 2007 • Category: C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms Thornton,
“The Vagabond Duchess” winds up your trilogy about a set of cousins who all find love around the time of the Great Fire of London in 1666. As such, it’s set in one of my favorite time eras, the lusty and bawdy court of King Charles II. Men dressed like fops but carried [...]



REVIEW: What a Gentleman Wants by Caroline Linden

By Janine • Apr 27th, 2007 • Category: C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Linden,
A while back, Jane reviewed your second novel, What a Gentleman Wants, and gave it a B. After enjoying your debut, What a Woman Needs (a B- for me), I thought I'd give your second book a try. I wish I liked it as much as Jane did, but for me, [...]



REVIEW: Warrior or Wife by Lyn Randal

By Jayne • Feb 17th, 2007 • Category: C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms Randal,
Wow, Harlequin really seems to be getting the message that romance readers want something other than Regency set romances to read. Will wonders never cease? In the past year I think I’ve read more books set during ancient Rome than in the five preceding years combined.
After two [...]



REVIEW: What a Gentleman Wants by Caroline Linden

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

Dear Ms. Linden,
Jane has already written a letter explaining the plot of your second book so I’m gonna just skip to my thoughts on it. Yeah, I love being lazy.
I loved watching the stuffy, ultra-in-control hero Marcus lose his cool and get his Ducal feathers ruffled. I enjoyed seeing him be charmed [...]



REVIEW: What a Gentleman Wants by Caroline Linden

By Jane • Dec 5th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Linden:
Marcus Reese, Duke of Exeter, is a pragmatic man. When confronted with the angry husband of his brother’s latest paramour, Reese sets off to find his brother, save his life and his sister’s season from Scandal. It matters not that he has to interrupt a bout of tupping between brother and paramour. [...]



REVIEW: Archangel by Sharon Shinn

By Janine • Oct 3rd, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Shinn,

I think Archangel is a wonderful book. One might even say heavenly.
Most of the inhabitants of Samaria are mortals, but the world also has angels who, by taking wing and praying to the god Jovah through song can ask the god for favorable weather and other aid. Once a year, the [...]