Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Dear Ms. Betts:
I came across your book cleaning out my towering stash of review copies that needed sorting and sending out to the reviewers. I read the back and realized that it had a hockey hero. I love sports books and I set it aside to read. When I opened, it however, it [...]

You are new to me
And I love a good contemp
(And hockey heroes)
Sadly, this was not
The read I was looking for.
Almost, but not quite.
Faith is ex-Playboy
Bunny and stripper who wed
A millionaire
Sound familiar?
Yep. It’s a romance spin of
Anna Nicole Smith.
But Faith is ’special’.
Because she loved the geezer
Not just his money.
The geezer bumps off
And leaves Faith [...]

The winners of the Hard & Fast Giveaway sponsored by Berkley, a division of Penguin publishing, are below. Special thanks to Berkley for giving away these books. We all appreciate it. If you are curious about the book, there is a review written here. This book can be purchased in mass market [...]

UPDATE: I’ve closed the comments and will announce the winners later tonight.
Dear Readers:
As you know, Sarah of SmartBitches and I have been making an effort to read and promote the straight contemporary. We’ve taken May off to recover from our DABWAHA tournament and we’ll have another STC candidate coming soon. In the [...]

Dear Ms. Kennedy:
I was excited to see another sports book in the Harlequin Blaze line.  My last encounter with a sports Blaze was Hard and Fast by Lisa Renee Jones and I enjoyed that book quite a bit.  Bodycheck is a hockey book and it suffered a bit in comparison to another hockey book with [...]

Power Play by Deirdre Martin
Celebs faking love
Same plot as the SEP
But here I love it
Eric’s a player
Both in hockey and dating
His new team hates him
Monica? Soap star
In trouble — about to be
Upstaged by rival
Cure to their problems?
Fake romance for publicity
It’s a win for both.
What’s fake becomes real
They fall for each other fast
Will true love fix [...]

Freedom to Tinker provides 2009 predictions which include netbook/larger iPhone at $899; civil lawsuits over violation of terms of service based on Lori Drew case; Obama administration prosecutions for large scale bittorrent abusers.
Alpha Heroes wonders what is up with the animal-like genetalia.  Rhev (the hero in JR Ward’s next book) is a sympath whose penis [...]