Lisa Valdez Surfaces

But just a little more patience, please.
Guns and Roses always pops up in my mind when pining for Valdez’s still-unavailable book, Patience. *snort* I’m predictable if nothing else. I read Passion not long before starting this blog, had always intended to review it, but it got on the treadmill track of my llife, the one [...]

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Poetry Contest Open For Voting

I spent an extravagant amount of time perusing some truly wonderful poetry yesterday over at C.L. Wilson’s site. Yep, gots to get my C.L. Wilson stalking quota in for the week. *grin* There is some wonderful work over there! If you like poetry and are gaga over the series like I am, I suggest checking [...]

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To Spoil or not to Spoil

There’s a lot of hot books coming out this year still.
– Moning’s fashionably late Fall temperature spike, Faefever
– Ward’s subsequent inamorato, Lover Enshrined
– Charlaine Harris’s annual backwoods vamp barbecue, From Dead to Worse
– Gena Showalter’s spankable newest, The Darkest Night
We’ve only begun to tap the keg that makes us readers salivate in ‘08. And the [...]

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REVIEW: If You Dare

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Have you ever wanted to shnog the hero after reading a romance? Perhaps shove his beautiful, endearing, tough gal lady right out the window/moving vehicle? No? Shoot. I was hoping I wasn’t the only one. You see, I have a bit of a crush on Courtland McCarrick after reading Cole’s If [...]

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Hump Day Bonus! Sci-Fi Romance Freebies

Apologies for the lack of Hump Day Bonus! posts the last two weeks. I could go into all sorts of reasons but two words will suffice: day job and sick. ‘Kay, so that was three, but we’ll ’scuse it this time. It takes a good bit of time to cruise the internet for author freebies, [...]

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REVIEW: The Nymph King

Gena Showalter
The Nymph King (Atlantis #3)
Harlequin
ISBN-10: 0373771886
ISBN-13: 9780373771882
Paranormal Romance
Well no surprise with moi, I’ve stumbled smack dab into the end of a three-book series without having read the first two. Oopsies. Somehow, with this third in Ms. Showalter’s Atlantis series, I think it’s for the best. I’d heard this one was a bit on the [...]

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REVIEW: To Pleasure a Lady

Nicole Jordan
To Pleasure a Lady (Courtship Wars #1)
Ballantine Books
ISBN-10: 0345494598
ISBN-13: 9780345494597
Historical Romance, Regency
January 29, 2008
Arabella Loring, as eldest, must protect her sisters against the unwanted machinations of a new guardian, one that would see them married off as quickly as possible. Two things bring the situation into the realm if ridiculous, one being the sisters [...]

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Hump Day Bonus! Regency Freebies

Happy Hump Day!
Ugh, yeah, let it just pass a bit quicker than hump days are known for. What am I complaining about though? It’s a bit chilly outside, but otherwise it’s set to be a sunny, blue skies smiling at me kind of day. So yeah, Happy Hump Day! Hope everyone’s having a good one. [...]

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Are You Hip With the BDB?

Black Dagger Brotherhood, vampire romance series writer, J.R. Ward, is gettin’ jiggy wit it and releasing this Fall a handy dandy guide to her emotionally scarring, street lingo heavy world. It’s now up at Amazon U.S. for pre-order, with a release date of October 7, 2008. Just in time for Halloween, this handy little reference [...]

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Hump Day Bonus! Members Only Freebies

Peeps, man is it hard to find author freebies across the vast reaches of the internet. Word to the authors: I know it may not always be possible (MAN do I know), but if you can entice readers over with a cool little freebie, a beautiful bookmark, something – anything – you’re giving some incentive [...]

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