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Daily Deals: Some great romance deals and a memoir

Nightfire with a Special Excerpt: A Protectors Novel: Marine Force Recon (Promo e-Books) by Lisa Marie Rice. $ .99

From the Jacket Copy:

Chloe Mason’s childhood memories consist of seemingly endless hospital stays. Now all grown up and healthy, her determination to fill the gaping holes in her past leads her to her long-lost brother, Harry . . . which brings Harry’s friend and business partner, Mike Keillor, crashing into her life and her heart.

Former Marine Force Recon sniper and SWAT officer—...

REVIEW: Yours for the Night by Samantha Hunter

Dear Samantha Hunter:

Garrett Berringer is a widower of 6 years. After his wife’s death, Garrett focused on building his security business with his brother Jonas – Berringer Bodyguards.

[image error]Tiffany Walker is a private investigator who spends her time trying to get photographs of cheating husbands when her original dream was to capture nature shots that would be featured in dozens of national magazines. She hasn’t told anyone about her new venture because she’s had so many failed ones in the past. S...

JOINT REVIEW: A Notorious Countess Confesses by Julie Anne Long

Dear Ms. Long,

Dabney and I are both fans of your work and we both enjoyed your latest Pennyroyal Green novel, A Notorious Countess Confesses. I, however, liked it more than Dabney did and thought it would be interesting to discuss the book with her.

[image error]A Notorious Countess Confesses continues the pattern of the last book—it’s not about one of the Eversea or Redmond children. The hero of this book is Pennyroyal Green’s handsome vicar, Adam Sylvaine, a distant cousin of the Eversea family. Adam is...

The hidden costs of the $0.99 ebook

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There has been a lot of debate about whether self-publishing is killing the book industry, whether bad books are driving out good books, and whether self-published books are diminishing respect for books overall. I can see why these issues generate so much heat and controversy, especially among authors and industry watchers. But I think these are the wrong conversations to have. Because there will always be a lot of bad books. There will always be competition and cannibalizing among different...

Tuesday News: More on the Penguin Random House deal

The Curse of the Sympathetic Character – LitLove talks about the sympathetic character and how problematic it can be when it is directed primarily toward women. It reminds me of a piece I wanted to write and will for next Tuesday about exactly why women are hard on other women. I don’t necessarily agree with LitLove’s suggestion that it is because we are less sympathetic but for another reason instead. I did enjoy LitLove’s piece though. LitLove/Reading Room

Is E-publishing Helping or Hurting...

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I know I originally promised to open the ad book in 2013, but I had some delays (obviously). But we are ready to open it up now. We have two ad slots available. Zone 2 and Zone 4.

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Daily Deals: A Recommended YA and Romances

[image error] North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley. $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:

As he continued to stare, I wanted to point to my cheek and remind him, But you were the one who wanted this, remember? You’re the one who asked-and I repeat-Why not fix your face?

It’s hard not to notice Terra Cooper.

She’s tall, blond, and has an enviable body. But with one turn of her cheek, all people notice is her unmistakably “flawed” face. Terra secretly plans to leave her stifling small town in the Northwest and esca...

REVIEW: Franny K Stein – Lunch Walks Among Us by Jim Benton

Dear Mr. Benton,

A good friend of mine steered me in the direction of the Franny K. Stein books. Her daughter loves them so much that she was crushed when she discovered that she couldn’t make her own monster. Or at least….not yet. Her daughter is still young though so who knows what she’ll be up to in ten years!

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Franny and her family live in a cutely painted house on Daffodil Street. It’s bright and cheery except for a room with a round window at the top. That’s Franny’s room and she likes it...

REVIEW: The Girl Nobody Wanted by Lynn Raye Harris

Dear Lynn Raye Harris:

My biggest problem with this story is that I was unprepared for the emotional reactions of the characters. They were two steps ahead of me and the whole time, I was internally thinking “wait up.”

Anna Constantinidesis the jilted and humiliated bride who learned of her fiance’s perfidy in the tabloids. Because she has been raised to be proper and polite, she attends the engagement party in order to show that there are no hard feelings. She should have hard feelings. I have...

Monday News: Murdoch rumored to bid on Penguin; South Carolina SSNs compromised; Virginity cannot be conclusively proved

Millions of SSNs lifted from South Carolina database – An alert for all the South Carolina readers:

“If you live in South Carolina, there’s a very good chance that slipshod state government security has allowed an overseas computer criminal to acquire your Social Security number.

The South Carolina Department of Revenue acknowledged the massive electronic security breach today, saying an electronic intrusion led to 3.6 million Social Security numbers being stolen. The state’s population is appr...