B- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / First-Person / Foot in Mouth Disease / illness / London / opposites attract / shy heroComments Off on REVIEW: 13 Dates by Matt Dunn
When Noah Wilson first encounters the quirky, opinionated and very beautiful Angel Fallon, his world is turned upside down. It’s clear she’s not his normal type, but Noah can’t stop thinking about her—which doesn’t bode well for the blind date he’s already late for. Convinced by his friend (and self-professed ... more >
Publishing NewsFoot in Mouth Disease / genre critique7 Comments
MSNBC decided to run a poll about romance novels in conjunction with its feature of fiction writer Danielle Steele. Why MSNBC jumps from Danielle Steele to romance, I’ll never know but it just goes to show how culturally illiterate the MSNBC poll writers are. Apparently MSNBC believes that romance books ... more >
Publishing NewsFoot in Mouth Disease / websites24 Comments
Theo Black, web designer and husband of author Holly Black, took to criticizing the websites of his former clients. I think Black is a talented guy but his vision of website design is style over functionality. I much prefer the functional and generic websites that he disdains because these sites ... more >
Book ReviewsFoot in Mouth Disease / Publishers-Behaving-Badly / yaoi316 Comments
Update. Kira Takenochi has alerted people to new changes in her Yaoi publishing role. Hello Everyone, For most of you, this is going to come as no surprise, as I’ve been discussing this situation for a few weeks now in my journal at the site. As of tonight I will ... more >
Publishing NewsFoot in Mouth Disease / politics / sexual-assault7 Comments
In our ongoing coverage of what is wrong with the United States (soon to be expanded to cover wrong headed laws being enacted or pushed to be enacted in foreign countries), we include Massachusetts. A proposed bill would allow individuals who obtain sex by lying to be charged with a ... more >
Publishing NewsFoot in Mouth Disease / politics15 Comments
First there was the Indiana Censorship Bill that requires any seller of sexually explicit material to register with the Secretary of State. You know, like bookstores that sell romances and such. Now the Republicans have the opportunity to vote for Tony Zirkle who is in a primary race for a ... more >