JanePublishing Newsfan-fiction / Hachette/Grand Central / Hyperion / Random-House14 Comments

Wool: Sci-Fi’s Underground Hit – There are a lot of interesting details in this WSJ article about Hugh Howey. Setting aside that this article could have just as easily profiled Colleen Hoover writing about young women struggling with losing their parents or dealing with sexual abuse rather than Hugh Howey, ... more >

JanePublishing NewsApple / Hachette/Grand Central5 Comments

Germans can’t see meteorite YouTube videos due to copyright dispute – Last week a meteorite fell in Russia. Apparently there are hundreds of citizens who have dash cams and many recorded some amazing video of the meteor’s fall into our atmosphere. In one video, the radio is playing and a ... more >

December 2, 2011

REVIEW: Immortal Rider by Larissa Ione

JaneB- Reviewsapocalyptic / demons / enemies to lovers / Hachette/Grand Central / Larissa-Ione / Paranormal12 Comments

Dear Ms. Ione: I haven’t been a faithful follower of the Demonica series, but I’ve read several. Having some knowledge of the world helped ground Immortal Rider but I did wonder whether readers who entered at this book or its predecessor would be a little lost. Immortal Rider is the ... more >

October 26, 2011

REVIEW: Heartstrings and Diamond Rings by Jane Graves

JayneB Reviews Category / Recommended ReadsContemporary / Good-Dialogue / Hachette/Grand Central / Jane Graves / matchmakers / texas18 Comments

Dear Ms. Graves, Lately I’ve been trying to read more new-to-me authors and when your latest book, “Heartstrings and Diamond Rings” landed in my arc pile, it was fate. I had heard you have a good reputation for humor and this story certainly backs that up. That plus good hero/heroine ... more >

October 24, 2011

REVIEW: Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt

JaneB- Reviewscriminal / Elizabeth-Hoyt / Georgian / Hachette/Grand Central / opposites attract / Recommended Reads / redemption32 Comments

Dear Ms. Hoyt: I have not read the previous two books in the Maiden Lane series.  While I loved your initial books, Jayne began to review the series and she did such a competent job that I kept putting the Hoyt historicals aside to read and review others.  I was ... more >

October 22, 2011

REVIEW: Always a Temptress by Eileen Dreyer

JaneC ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Eileen-Dreyer / Hachette/Grand Central / Historical Romances / Regency England8 Comments

Dear Ms Dreyer: For the first third of this book, I had real doubts about whether I would finish it. The hero, Major Sir Harry Lidge, had fallen in love with Lady Catherine Anne Hilliard Seaton, Dowager Duchess of Murther ten years prior but because he believes that she tried ... more >