Jun 18 - Book Review
Wishing on a Star:Jade's Story
Please Enjoy the First 3 Chapters of Wishing on a Star:Jade's Story
Read an excerpt of Lynsay Sands' upcoming historical novel An English Bride in Scotland, out June 25!
Please Enjoy the First 3 Chapters of Wishing on a Star:Jade's Story
Hear ye! Hear ye! That is the question, especially if you are a reader and are looking to provide valuable feedback, support, or to help the author raise awareness of their work. If you are a writer, you already know how important reviews are to you and your work. If you aren’t sure, read on. Before I became a writer I had no idea that reviews were so important to a writer. I mean really, I just read a book, and if I liked it I told my family and friends. I didn’t contact the writer and tell them I’d enjoyed their book, and I certainly didn’t even think about going onto Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Kobo to post a review. I’d never heard of Goodreads, Smashwords, or the scores of other reader/writer websites that have sprung up on the net. Why would I? I was blissfully ignorant in the ways...
Check out the latest sampler from author Julie Anne Long! It Happened One Midnight - on sale June 25th
I have a confession to make. I’ve been cheating. As the header picture of this blog shows, I am a lover of Regency Romance. What’s not to love? It’s a glittering world of fabulously wealthy dukes and duchesses, earls and countesses, gorgeous dresses, and magnificent homes. Just so you all know, in my next life, I am coming back as a duchess. But I didn’t start out reading these Regencies. Back when I first started reading romance, I read Shanna, which took place in the West indies. I left romance after that, and when I returend became introduced to the world of Bertrice Small. I read everything by her and I am sorry to say, I got bored after a while with the kidnapping to the harems and all that. Once again, I left romance and read mostly mysteries, woman’s fiction and what used to be called chick-lit. I have...
Stealing Home Diamonds and Dugouts #1 Jennifer Seasons Released April 2nd, 2013 100 Pages, Ebook Avon Impulse Gifted by: Publisher Reviewed by: Lisa Gibson Chinook fans are gonna LOVE the Bad Boys of the Denver Rush! Love may be just a game, but the baseball players in Jennifer Seasons' sexy diamonds and dugouts series— they're playing for keeps! Mark Cutter has it all: a lucrative baseball career, fast cars, and faster women—and all thanks to his priceless good luck charm. At least, that's what he thinks before Lorelei Littleton shows up. Next thing he knows, he's waking up alone, the sexy brunette has vanished, and his good luck charm is gone. More than a little curious about the wicked-hot cat burglar and determined to get his property back, Mark's going to track down the thief and make her pay—big time. Maybe Lorelei feels a tiny bit guilty for stealing Mark's...
It’s almost time for the annual Romance Writers of America (RWA) conference…which means the questions and planning are starting to firm up. This year, I am so excited it’s in Atlanta… For those of you who have checked out this blog seeking writerly enlightenment on southern culture, or perhaps just to figure out what the heck ITP means, welcome! I have lived in Atlanta for 15 years, and I am happy to lend my own recommendations and thoughts to the amazing Romance authors who will soon be coming to my fair city. In my day job for the CDC, I’ve participated in a ton of scientific conferences downtown at the Marriot Marquis, so by now I know the drill. Buckle up baby, you’re in my city now! From Wikipedia, top to bottom left to right: Atlanta skyline, the Fox Theatre, the Georgia State Capitol, Centennial Olympic Park, Millennium Gate, the Canopy Walk,...
As a huge fan of Candis Terry’s Sugar Shack Series, it was a no brainer for me to sign up for the Tasty Book Tour promoting Candis’s upcoming new release, ANYTHING BUT SWEET. On Wednesday, the lovely lady will be joining me for an interview so be sure to come back then to meet her. ***eARC provided by publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest and unscripted review. Blurb for ANYTHING BUT SWEET: A man who doesn’t like change . . . The Wilder family is something of a Sweet, TX institution: between their yearly BBQ blow-outs and their Hardware and Feed store, they’re an institution—an institution that ex-marine Reno Wilder has tried to preserve, in honor of his lost loved ones. But it seems like he’s the only one who’s got any respect left for traditions when a new TV makeover show rolls in to renovate Sweet to...
dd You may think I’m joking but as I type this post I feel surrounded by blinking lights. I love lightning bugs. They remind me of being a small child and running around catching them in a mason jar and sleeping with them beside the bed. I remember catching one at a time. But this year they seem to have multiplied. Everywhere you look they’re are hundreds blinking. It’s a nice, sultry night in Georgia. The rain has subsided and made way for clear skies. I’m enjoying sitting on my patio working on my current book as my hubby listens to guitar riffs on youtube via his phone. It always inspires me to write when I sit outside in the twilight and watch the sun sink into the horizon. I feel like the sinking sun sometimes. As I work on the finishing touches of my latest work I wonder how...
