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REVIEW: Secrets of Sin by Chloe Harris

Dear Ms. Harris:

Thank you for sending me your book for review. I suspect my review will solidify rumors that I just do not like erotic romance. I don't believe that that's true but I do find many erotic romances to be problematic. This is because I require some emotional connection to accompany the physical acts. I can see the accounts to create emotional depth in the story but I felt that those were written around the sex rather than the sex flowing from the emotional headspace. In this...

REVIEW: Angel Burn by L.A. Weatherly

Dear Ms. Weatherly,

I've become rather selective when it comes to urban fantasy, even in the young adult genre. It's just that there's so much of it these days that if I don't, I'd end up buried under a pile of books until well into the next decade. I'm also a little lukewarm on angels. Even after being introduced to Caris Roane's brand of crack. I know angels were one of those trends people used to tout as "the next vampire," but they never caught my interest. But despite these things, I...

Readers' Rights to Buy When, Where, and in What Format They Want

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Last month, Sunita sent me a link to a book inspired by a schoolteacher in Paris named Daniel Pennac. Pennac had created a readers' list of rights to encourage young people to read. This list was combined with illustrations by Quentin Blake and then published. The U.S. version has only black and white illustrations, but the international version can still be had by U.S. and non U.S. readers. She said that each "right" could be the topic of a blog post. So true (if you want to write...

Monday Midday Links: LA Banks Gravely Ill

Author LA Banks is gravely ill and could use assistance of the monetary kind. She is so gravely ill that she is not able to respond to text or e-mail messages received visitors or even accept flowers. There is more information about the donations you can make here.

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I am one part horrified and one part amazed by Gillette's ability to write ads on a strand of hair. The ad says that their work is best viewed close up, but still. Ads on hair?

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In googling for the past leg bronzing...

REVIEW: Come Unto These Yellow Sands, by Josh Lanyon

Dear Mr. Lanyon,

You are so well known for your series that some readers may be less familiar with your stand-alone books. I've done my part to avoid this possibility, and I was delighted to see that you were releasing a new stand-alone novel. Come Unto These Yellow Sands, like last year's Fair Game, features an academic protagonist/narrator, a pre-existing relationship between the main characters, and a murder to solve, but those are the only obvious similarities. The novel is nominally a...

UPDATED with WINNERS STC: Yours to Keep by Shannon Stacey & Giveaway

UPDATED WITH WINNERS:

You tweeted, you emailed, you tweeted some more, and some of you won copies of the book – and you helped us spread the word.

Really, that's what this campaign is about: helping us promote a contemporary romance we thought was truly, truly awesome. Thank you for helping us out with that goal.

And now, we have a winner! One person who tweeted, emailed, or helped us promote the Save the Contemporary webpage will win her choice of a nook Touch, a Kobo Touch, or a Kindle...

REVIEW: The Daddy Catch by Leigh Duncan

Jess Cofer isn't fixing for a fight. All the single mom wants is to run her fly fishing shop and preserve unspoiled Phelps Cove, Florida, for future generations. Too bad Dan Hamilton doesn't see it that way. It looks as if the tall, dark and sexy surgeon is in favor of handing over the endangered habitat to greedy developers!

Dan would love to get on his gorgeous new fishing instructor's good side—if she has one. But he can't throw away this opportunity to fulfill his dream to build a safe...

GIVEAWAY: One Slightly Used Nook Color

I bought a Nook Color for review purposes for the blog but despite the cool factor, I've not used it very often.  It's actually been languishing in the house and I thought that there might be someone who would benefit from it here on the blog.

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Here's my review of the Nook Color and if you are interested in the Nook Touch, Bettie Sharpe did a guest review for Dear Author here.

I prefer reading on an eink device versus reading on an LCD screen and now that I have the Nook Touch, I can't imagine t...

DA/SB Bestseller List, Week ending June 8

I think the $.99 price of Courtney Milan's book is what giving the story staying power on the list. Grace Burrowes and Susanna Kearsley's stories are part of Amazon's Sunshine deals.

Unlocked by Courtney Milan
Yours To Keep by Shannon Stacey
Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase
Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh
Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews
Soldier by Grace Burrowes
Scoring Lacey by Jenna Howard

GUEST REVIEW: Bettie Sharpe on the Nook Touch

The New Nook Simple Touch Reader: Awesome for Reading and Buying Books. Everything else? Meh.

[image error]When I told my husband why I needed—needed!—the new Barnes and Noble Nook Simple Touch Reader to replace my 2.5 year old Sony PRS 700, I tried to impress with tech specs. I mentioned the 6.5" super crisp Pearl E-Ink screen with z-Force infrared touch technology (the same system used in Sony's latest generation of touch screen readers), the 800MHz Texas Instruments OMAP3 processor (same processor...