Zoe Winters’s “Kept”

December 6, 2008 | 5 Comments

Kept
by Zoe Winters
published by IncuBooks
Zoe is an independent publisher I “met” by happenstance when I got soundly thrashed on Dear Author for suggesting that a multi-published author whose 3-book SERIES contract had been canceled after book 2 (leaving her fans out in the cold with characters they loved) actually self-publish the third book in the [...]

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Book Review: The Truth About Roxy

December 4, 2008 | 5 Comments

The Truth About Roxy
by Jenny Gilliam
published by The Wild Rose Press
I like the longer single-title contemporary romance (no suspense, thanks, and the category lengths are just way too short) and lately, the ones I really like have been coming out of the smaller e-presses. They’re not as well edited as I’d like, but they’re [...]

Aug

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Pretty women

August 23, 2008 | 5 Comments

Disclaimer: I can’t stand Hillary Clinton. At all. But… I find her very attractive in this picture.
I’m not even going to chalk it up to the hair (very nice) or necklace (meh–not a fan of chunk jewelry). Perhaps the smile? Yes, that’s it. It looks…genuine. Happy. Even as [...]

Aug

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By gosh and by golly

August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Harlequin. I *lurrrrve* you.
Got an email from Ms. Malle Vallik today on the subject of my ebook shopping woes. She will be addressing my concerns for the Harlequin digital team and wanted me to know that.
And you know what? With that one little email, all my lingering irritation vanished.
Harlequin is not hurt [...]

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My guilty pleasure

August 2, 2008 | 4 Comments

My first full-on real-life romance novel was Shanna by Kathleen Woodiwiss. Naturally, it’s on my keeper shelf right next to The Wolf and the Dove. I have the ones with the original covers, though they are far from mint. The namby pamby covers on the ones with the links are meh. Unlike [...]

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Bettie Sharpe’s “Ember”

June 23, 2008 | 5 Comments

In my opinion, this is not so much a twisted fairy tale as an example of how to write. I won’t get into all the gush-deconstruction with various adjectives and superlatives because it’s been done ad nauseam (by an agent, even!)
Bettie, if you see, this, please email me your Paypal account and I’ll PAY [...]