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REVIEW: Room at the Top by Jane Davitt and Alexa Snow

Dear Ms. Davitt and Ms. Snow:

I thoroughly enjoy your books. So I was thrilled when I saw this one and I wasn't disappointed when I read it. You have such consistently good writing, wonderful characters, and fabulous representations of BDSM.

[image error]Austin and Jay are a committed couple, completely, madly, deeply in love with each other…and both submissives. Their sex life is strong and they enjoy each other, but they both crave giving up control to someone else. They can't dom each other — they've...

REVIEW: Shut Out by Kody Keplinger

Dear Ms. Keplinger,

I read your debut novel, The DUFF, earlier this year. While I didn't think it was as mindblowing as I was led to believe, I liked it enough to look out for your future books. When I learned your sophomore effort was a retelling of Lysistrata, my interest was piqued. How would the play be adapted for a YA audience?

[image error]At Lissa's high school, the sports rivalries aren't with other schools. Instead, the football and soccer teams of Hamilton High are at war with each other. Lissa, ...

Dear Author Recommends for October

It's October. I know, I can barely believe it either. The following are our recommended reads in October. Here is a catalog of October releases. The November and December catalogs are fairly up to date although the December one doesn't have the category releases yet.

YA

Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson, recommended by Jane
You Are My Only by Beth Kephart, recommended by John

Fiction

The Orchard by Theresa Weir, recommended by Robin

M/M

Room at the Top by Jane Davitt and Alexa...

Special Deals Post: 12 Book Club Picks $2.99 from Avon

In celebration of National Reading Group Month, Book Club Girl has combed through Harper Collins extensive list of trade publications to hand-select 12 great e-books for book clubs for just $2.99 each (price is good for the entire month of October). So consumers can fill their e-readers with a year's worth of great book club picks for less than $36!

Light of Day by Jamie Saul * $2.99 * Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo Summer we Fell Apart by Robin Antalek * $2.99 * Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo

REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY: The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

Sourcebooks has generously offered to give away five digital copies of this book as well as five print bundles of The Rose Garden and The Winter Sea. Please leave a comment to this review before Saturday at noon CDT to be eligible. Digital copies are geo-restricted to North America and territories, but all commenters are eligible to win the print bundles.

 

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...

Contemporroneous: 5 Biggest Mistakes Writers Make About Lawyers (or why I rarely read romances featuring lawyers)

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During the Mistorical discussion, some asked why we didn't point out errors or miscues in contemporary romances.Lynn S even gave us a good name for it: contemporroneous.    To the extent that we know them, I think that we do.  I've been pretty scathing, in fact, about books featuring sports characters where I didn't agree with the representation of the plot. I.e, the secret sale of a baseball team book was given a C- (maybe should have been lower); a C+ to a book that put the Yankees in the ...

Monday Midday News: Sandra Hyatt Memorial, Sara Douglass passes, Copyright Office Open for Comments

As you will have heard, author Sandra Hyatt (Hyde) died suddenly a few weeks ago. A trust has now been set up in her memory, it's aim to support a NZ-based romance writer going to a conference here or overseas. Link: http://www.sandrahyatt.com/sandra-hyde-memorial-trust/.

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Someone is having trouble separating fact from fiction but I'm not convinced it's romance readers. Teenage murder suspect declared to the police that she was a vampire / werewolf.

Police have previously speculated that...

Monday Midday News: Sandra Hyatt Memorial, Sarah Douglass passes, Copyright Office Open for Comments

As you will have heard, author Sandra Hyatt (Hyde) died suddenly a few weeks ago. A trust has now been set up in her memory, it's aim to support a NZ-based romance writer going to a conference here or overseas. Link: http://www.sandrahyatt.com/sandra-hyde-memorial-trust/.

*****

Someone is having trouble separating fact from fiction but I'm not convinced it's romance readers. Teenage murder suspect declared to the police that she was a vampire / werewolf.

Police have previously speculated that...

REVIEW: A Bride Unveiled by Jillian Hunter

Dear Ms. Hunter,

I picked up this book after Jane mentioned it in passing in an email with…some sort of positive connotation. I hadn't read your work before, but whatever it was Jane said, it was enough for me to want to check this book out. Unfortunately, the fact that I can't remember why the book was recommended (maybe a non-aristocratic hero?) ended up being a problem that extended to the book itself. I read A Bride Unveiled probably three weeks ago. That's not that long ago, but I had to ...

Dear Bitches Smart Authors Podcast: Jane Interviews Sarah regarding "Everything I Know About Love, I Learned from Romance Novels

For this edition of the Dear Bitches, Smart Authors podcast, Jane (me) asks Sarah Really Really Hard Questions about Everything I Know About Love, I Learned from Romance Novels, known affectionately as EIKAL.  I tried to ask hard questions about the book. Sarah said she felt cross examined.

I hope you enjoy the interview, and get a little insight into the book – which is now available at bookstores and libraries near you.

This week's music is from Shadow Orchestra, and the very mellow track is...