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Down the Rabbit Hole to Book Awesomeness.

It's been a long time since I thought of this one...but in a fit of late-night procrastination that involved:

1) a search to see how likely it was that Sandra Bullock could be rewarded for her most recent pain and suffering (is that Jesse James a dillweed or what?!) with a marriage to George Clooney,

2) the discovery of this incredible timesuck (Findthebacon.com), and

3) realizing that Kevin Bacon was in a movie that I somehow have never heard of called Pyrates...

I remembered that I've always wa...

Gaelen Foley's Nine Rules for Heroines Pursued By Wicked English Lords

Allow me a quick trip down memory lane...to 1998--I was visiting my sister in her super cool apartment in Boston, and she handed me a book that would start a decade long pre-ordering obsession.  The book was Gaelen Foley's The Pirate Prince . Since that fabulous beginning, Gaelen has become one of my must buys...and OMG...

Imagine my squeeing when Gaelen agreed to write her own Nine Rules for my celebration of Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake . No. It's best if you don't imagine it. Suf...

Tera Lynn Childs's Nine Rules for Writing YA!

To celebrate the launch month of Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, I've asked some of my favorite authors to share their own Nine Rules here on the blog...and today I'm so happy to have the fabulous Tera Lynn Childs (RITA award winner for Oh. My. Gods. ) to give her brilliant rules for one of my very favorite topics: Writing YA.  Before you even think about writing a YA novel...you gotta read these.

Nine Rules for Writing YA

Writing for teens can feel like entering an alternate...

Everyone Loves a Man Who Can Cook

There's a big debate on Twitter right now--the YA lit world is buzzing with what could be the most pressing question of our time. Team Peeta or Team Gale? Not since vampires vs. werewolves has a debate been so heated. But honestly, I'm going to let Hunger Games experts be the ones to discuss this because, while I loved the books, this seems like a non-thing to me. Obviously, the answer is Team Gale. Obviously. 

Now.  My friend Amanda is vehemently Team Peeta. Her defense of this mousy, pasty ...

Pamela Palmer's Nine rules of dating a Feral Warrior Shifter

To celebrate the launch month of Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, I've asked some of my favorite authors to share their own Nine Rules here on the blog...

About six months ago, I was in the Avon offices and I made an embarrassing confession--that I'd never read a shapeshifter romance.  Well.  That was not going to be allowed to go on if I was ever going to be able to show my face proudly in those offices again.  I left with my marching orders...read Pamela Palmer's Feral Warriors ser...

Kerrelyn Sparks's 9 Perfect Presents for Vampire Sweethearts!

I am SUPER jazzed that  Kerrelyn Sparks has joined me this week to offer up her Nine Perfect Presents to Give Your Vampire Sweetheart as part of my launch month for Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake! Kerrelyn's The Vampire and the Virgin--a continuation of her Love at Stake series--releases this week! Kerrelyn has offered up a signed copy of Forbidden Nights with a Vampire ...to win, comment below with your favorite fictional vampire (winner announced on Thursday)!

I should warn you, w...

Nine Rules Excerpt!

Harper has released
an excerpt of
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

(SQUEE!)

To Browse Inside...
Click the cover!

Today, in Things that Make Me Smile.

Via the fantabulous Coe Booth.

Jennifer Brown's Nine Rules for Being an Agent of Change

To celebrate the launch month of NINE RULES TO BREAK WHEN ROMANCING A RAKE, I've asked some of my favorite authors to share their own Nine Rules here on the blog...

As regular readers know, one of my very favorite YA Novels of 2009 was the incredible Hate List by the hilarious, wonderful Jennifer Brown. I'm honored that Jennifer was willing to take time to celebrate the launch of Nine Rules with me...with her Nine Rules for Being an Agent of Change. The phrase--used by the principal in Hate...

Toni Blake's Nine Rules for Visiting Destiny, Ohio!

To celebrate the launch month of NINE RULES TO BREAK WHEN ROMANCING A RAKE, I've asked some of my favorite authors to share their own Nine Rules here on the blog...

I'm so excited to kick off the series with the fabulous Toni Blake, author of seventeen romances including the heartwarming, sexy ONE RECKLESS SUMMER. If you, as I am, are a sucker for homecoming romances--you know the ones I mean...the heroine goes back to her roots and falls for a dreamy local?--ORS is for you!

The book (and it's ...