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April 18, 2008

My First Sale by Julie Leto, It All Started with Cheap Wine…

JaneBook Reviews / Interviewsfirst-sale / Julie-Leto25 Comments

Julie Leto is constantly honing her craft to be a better writer, so much so that her group blog is called the Plot Monkeys.   She’s had her writing ups and downs but Leto is a survivor, as any girl raised with three brothers would learn to be.   She’s on the ... more >

April 9, 2008

REVIEW: Phantom Pleasures by Julie Leto

JaneBook Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviewsghosts / Julie-Leto / Magic / Paranormal27 Comments

Dear Ms. Leto: I’ve been anxiously awaiting this new paranormal series of yours from Signet since you announced it over a year ago. I’m intrigued by the premise and I liked parts of the story but overall, I felt like I was missing something when I closed the story. Alexa ... more >

December 31, 2007

GUEST REVIEW: Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon

JaneA Review Category / Book Reviewsguest-blogger / Julie-Leto / My Favorite Things15 Comments

Author Julie Leto offers up a guest review of Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon. Boy’s Life was a book challenged by a parent in the Hernando County School District as “inappropriate” because of bad language. Mr. McCammon flew to the Hernando County School Board meeting to defend his book and ... more >

August 9, 2006

REVIEW: Dirty Little Lies by Julie Leto

JaneB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviews / EbooksAssassin / Boston / Julie-Leto / Latino8 Comments

Dear Ms. Leto It was been debated whether you write to the market or write what is in your heart. I have always voted that I want writers to write what is in their hearts because it makes for a better read. Your heart, shows through in this story and ... more >

Boys of Summer by Julie Leto, Kimberly Raye & Leslie Kelly
August 7, 2006

REVIEW: Boys of Summer by Julie Leto, Kimberly Raye & Leslie Kelly

JaneBook Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- ReviewsAnthology / Baseball / Julie-Leto / Leslie-Kelly / sports romance13 Comments

This whole “acknowledging your illness as the first step to recovery” is not working for me. I have already said that I don’t like anthologies but I keep buying them. I blame this mistake on the fact that I love sports and who can resist the ass on that guy? ... more >

July 18, 2006

Bookstore Etiquette

JaneLetters of OpinionJulie-Leto / Reader Opinions62 Comments

In a comment over at Alison Kent’s blog, Julie Leto posted something that surprised me: In my mind, writing reviews like this one (not a bad review–a TRASH review) is the same as going to Walmart and standing in front of the romance section and telling people to put that ... more >

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