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Interview & Giveaway with Cecilia Grant, Author of A Lady Awakened

Cecilia Grant's A Lady Awakened is one of the absolute best debut romances I have come across in all my years (and they are many) of reading romances. When I was reading it I was reminded of novels like Judith Ivory's Black Silk, Pam Rosenthal's The Slightest Provocation and Patricia Gaffney's Wyckerley trilogy; books that didn't flinch from putting their characters in thorny situations; books which portrayed communities; thoughtful, often introspective books in which each word was carefully ...

December 25 Daily Deals: Freebies and Books Under $2.99

There are hundreds of books under $2.99 today. Authors and publishers are all angling for those who are just opening their Kindles and Nooks and Kobo Readers. Today I've collected 200 deals. Some are ones you have seen before on the site and some are new. I've rearranged them into some fun categories such as the Darcy Fan Fiction collection or the Dukes on Sale. Happy Holiday folks!

AllRomance is having a 50% ebate sale. (This is where they give you AllRomance Ebook dollars to be used on a ...

I Received an Ebook Reader, now what?

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With over 3 million Kindles sold along with 100 iOS devicees sold a minute, it is likely that many readers received digital reading devices this Christas.  The following is what you might need to know in order to use your device.

1.  Are prices the same for digital books?

Generally speaking the price of books are equal to their paper equivalent or less. If you buy new most of the time, you should not see an increase in your book spending.  There is no seccondary market (like a used bookstore...

REVIEW: The Bride by Julie Garwood

Dear Ms. Garwood:

Back in 2006, Jayne and I wrote a few reviews of our all time favorite books.  We primarily read and review "new to us" books whether those are new publications or recently republished backlist titles.  Because of that, our archives are thin as it pertains to the books which might considered modern romance classics.  The holidays are a perfect time to remedy that.

"The Bride" is one of my most often read books.  I purchased it new in 1989 and proceeded to read it so many...

First Page: untitled M/M Paranormal Romance

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously.

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Lukas von Rainer was at the hotel bar with his fellow Wardens when the priest passed. Everyone's eye was drawn to him, not only for the black vestments which brought out his dusky complexion and dark hair, but also for the rugged shape of his jaw and the surety of h...

REVIEW: Dreamer by Ann Mayburn

Dear Ms. Mayburn,

I'm always on the look out for Paranormal Romance stories that don't feature the usual set up of vampires vs werewolves or angels vs demons. Though I haven't read your work before, the blurb for Dreamer, the new book in your Chosen by the Gods series, intrigued me because it offered a paranormal setting in which a variety of old gods are not only real, but active in modern life. Dreamer is listed as a romance with elements of domination and submission. The BDSM sub-genre...

Winner of the Kindle Touch

[image error]The winner of the November electronic reading device is Kaetrin.

The first commenter in November was Las and the last one was Angie. According to mysql database, the comments started at number 322059 and ended at 334713. Using random.org and those numbers, the winning comment number was 325979 and that was a comment made by Kaetrin on The Virtuoso.

In December we will be giving away a Kindle Fire and I'll announce that on January 1. I'll be doing it the same way by using random.org to choose a ...

Friday Midday News and Deal Links: Ebook Sales Up and Down

News

Google has filed its motion to dismiss in the Google Book Settlement.  The motion is based on a legal term known as standing.  Not everyone can sue anyone else.  You must have "standing" and Google is arguing that everyone but the individual authors and artists have standing, not groups such as the Authors Guild.

In a copyright case, standing comes from ownership. Only the "legal or beneficial owner" of the exclusive right the defendant has allegedly infringed has standing to sue. Since...

Sunita's Best of 2011 List

In alphabetical order by author's last name:

If It Ain't Love by Tamara Allen (my review here)The Only Gold by Tamara AllenVienna Waltz by Teresa GrantThe Rifter by Ginn Hale (Janine's and my joint review of 1-5 here; my review of 6 & 7 here)The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley (my review here)Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Josh Lanyon (my review here)A Night of Scandal by Sarah Morgan (my review here)GhosTV by Jordan Castillo PricePetit Morts #11-#17 by Jordan Castillo Price, Sean Kennedy...

Friday Film Review: Blackadder's A Christmas Carol

Blackadder's A Christmas Carol (1988)

Genre: Spoof

Grade: A

"Bad guys have all the fun."

[image error]No, right now I'm not in a very serious Christmas mood. Let's have some fun with it, I say. And what better way than with Edmund Ebneezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), his trusty sidekick Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and most of the regular Blackadder cast of Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson, Miriam Margolyes, Robbie Coltrane, Jim Broadbent, Patsy Byrne plus a few other assorted gits.

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