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

Apparently, this is the Year of Acheron and YouTube has the video to prove it. Sherrilyn Kenyon’s video book trailer is kind of scary. If the book delivers this kind of chills, it would be pretty awesome.

In August, I believe, the long awaited story of ACHERON will be released. In celebration of this, St. Martin’s Press is offering one of the very first Dark-Hunter novels, Seize the Night, in a free e-Book download. You have to give up personal information (not height and weight thank goodness) and in exchange you will receive an email with a download link.

To some extent, I think I am a book title snob and thus I hadn’t bought any of those Big Guns/Bad Boys Anthologies. I mean, come on . . . Who wants to be seen reading one of those books! (Apparently lots because I think they sell really well). I’m glad I read Big Guns Out of Uniform because while the first two stories are readable, the last is revelatory and I often measure anthology stories against the creation of Nicole Camden. The three stories commonality is that the hero is an officer of the law.

Dear Ms. Kenyon:

BAD TO THE BONE was a tongue in cheek look at romance readers and romance reading contests. Marianne Webernec, a teacher, wins the Hideaway Heroine Sweepstakes and a chance to pretend to be the heroine in her favorite romance novel. She picks a romantic suspense military story and soon she is jetting off to an island where actors are hired to play the heroes. Marianne is to be a covert CIA agent being pursued by a villian who is …