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REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY: The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

UPDATED: The winners of the giveaway are:

1) SeaGrace

2) Eilis Flynn

3) Julie L.

4) Robyn B.

5) Amy K

6) Maggie

7) Elizabeth56

8) DarcyO

9) Maili

10) Lindsey

Please send me your snail mail address at sunita at dear author dot com.

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you Sourcebooks!

 

Dear Ms. Kearsley,

[image error]Your novel, The Winter Sea, blew me away last year. It was one of my Best of 2010 books, and I've recommended it not only to everyone I know, but to total strangers as well. When I was...

REVIEW: In Total Surrender by Anne Mallory

Dear Ms. Mallory,

I have been anticipating the release of your novel, In Total Surrender, since I read about the Merrick brothers in your last effort, One Night Is Never Enough. There's just something about a pair of intellectual thugs that gets my blood pumping.

In Total Surrender is Andreas Merrick's book. The one in which the taciturn and deadly Lord of the Criminal Underworld falls in love with the upbeat daughter of a merchant.

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Monday Midday Links: USA Today Gets a Romance Blog and Amazon Exclusives Brings Out BN's "Scorched Earth" Policy

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USA Today launched a blog devoted to romances. Huzzah!  Author Joyce Lamb, a copy editor for the paper and author of romantic suspenses published by Berkley, heads up the blog.  Mandi S is one of the reviewers.  Her blog is here.  Other readers and authors will be contributing.  It's great to see positive coverage of the genre at one of the largest mainstream news sites in the US.

*****

Mitchell Gross writing under the name Michael Graham is an author of thrillers and a fantasy trilogy and...

What Jennie's Been Reading (Since September 9th)

By Jennie

So, when last I wrote, I was reading four books at the same time; three long dense books and one other, shorter book. I'm still reading the same three long books, but figured it was time for an progress update, as well as some brief mentions of what else I've read.

Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens: I've moved a little closer to the end of this extremely long book, though I still probably have a quarter to go. At least the threads of the various plotlines are coming together a bit now...

REVIEW: Slow Ride by Erin McCarthy

Dear Ms. McCarthy:

For the most part I've enjoyed this NASCAR inspired series quite a bit even though I'm not a stock-car racing fan and despite some of your more challenging heroines. However in "Slow Ride", I was not able to overcome what I felt was shoddy behavior by the heroine to a somewhat flat hero character.  It was like a reverse HP. Asshole heroine and doormat hero. Maybe I should have reveled in the role reversal but mostly I just disappointed because I've liked this series.

Tuesday ...

DA/SBTB Bestseller List

Week ending October 4, 2011

Lord and Lady Spy by Shana Galen Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo I Love the Earl by Caroline Linden Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo Doukakis's Apprentice by Sarah Morgan Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo Unclaimed by Courtney Milan Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost a

REVIEW: Sony Reader PRS-T1BC WiFi Touch Edition

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The Sony Reader WiFi Touch Edition (Model PRS-T1BC) has a different look and feel than past Sony Readers. In the past, the Sony devices have had all metal chassis. This made the device a little heavier but solid in feel. Because of the price point and the metal chassis, it was easy to label the Sony devices as a luxury form of a reader.   This new model is $149, a much lower price that it's 6″ Sony Touch predecessor.

This is no longer the case. The front of the Sony Reader is metal but the...

REVIEW: Deadly Descent by Kaylea Cross

Dear Ms. Cross:

I enjoy romantic suspense but I like a good military romantic suspense primarily because other RS often rely upon serial killers for the suspense but the military setting or paramilitary setting is more action driven, less psychological.  I also like the camaraderie between the soldiers but rarely do we ever read about female soldiers.  I was excited to see that this series is about a number of females, at least a couple of them pilots, in a combat setting.

I had read an...

REVIEW: Isle of Night by Veronica Wolff

Dear Ms. Wolff,

 Jaclyn says:

When I opened to page one of Isle of Night I was expecting a historical romance set in Scotland—presumably on the Isle of Night. The ARC I had didn't have a cover image and because I have enjoyed your books in the past I did not seek information about the story before starting to read. My assumption was half right: most of the story takes place on the Isle of Night.

Isle of Night begins with seventeen-year-old Annelise leaving her abusive dad's dingy Florida...

First Page: Duncan, a 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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Why didn't the Fomhoire ever just walk up to him and tap him on the shoulder? They would be so much easier to kill that way. Duncan tossed back his fourth Macallan and signaled for another. The bartender gave him a calculated look before grabbing a clean glass for ...