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Dear Author Recommends for July

It’s kind of a light weight month. Maybe July is a month for vacations and beaches where reading doesn’t take place?

Contemporary:

At Last by Jill Shalvis, recommended by Dabney. Reviewed here. ( A | BN | K | S )

At Last is an effortlessly enjoyable contemporary romance. The romance between Amy and Matt is believable, sweet and very very sexy—it’s easy to see them having a healthy, happy future together. The extra storylines of Riley and Amy’s grandmother add depth to the tale. And, all those lu...

Daily Deals: A few animals, writers, and assassins

[image error]How to Talk to Your Animals by Jean Craighead George. $ 1.99

I admit I didn’t buy this book but I’ve read the Julie and the Wolves series by Jean Craighead George with the tot. I think that series should be require reading for any author writing about wolves. George makes Alaska come alive in those books through the eyes of Julie and the wolf pack. I don’t doubt for a minute that George actually speak animal.

From the Jacket Copy:

Based upon the work of contemporary naturalists, psychologists,...

REVIEW: Liquid Lies by Hanna Martine

Dear Ms. Martine:

The thing I appreciated the most about this book was that it was different. The world building presented a somewhat unique twist. Gwen Carroway is part of a massive corporation known as the Company. They sell a special concoction called Mendacia that works like a glamour, fooling the human eye into believing an amputee has all his limbs or an aging actress is forever young.

[image error]Gwen and her Company come off as high scale drug dealers, working in secrecy and the dead of night, sell...

REVIEW: Liquid Lies by Hannah Martine

Dear Ms. Martine:

The thing I appreciated the most about this book was that it was different. The world building presented a somewhat unique twist. Gwen Carroway is part of a massive corporation known as the Company. They sell a special concoction called Mendacia that works like a glamour, fooling the human eye into believing an amputee has all his limbs or an aging actress is forever young.

[image error]Gwen and her Company come off as high scale drug dealers, working in secrecy and the dead of night, sel...

REVIEW: Carolina Home by Virginia Kantra

Dear Ms. Kantra,

I grew up going to the beach each summer, often to North Carolina beaches, so a book set there looked like a good summer read. And let me say that grilled wahoo, served and eaten on a beach house porch with evening sea breezes blowing in, is some of the best eating I’ve ever had. Lots of contemporaries these days are set in small towns with one or both of the main characters having got there to escape from somewhere, something or someone. This feels like something slightly dif...

Blogger Highlight: Wicked Little Pixie

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During 2012, I’m trying to highlight a few bloggers in the romance blogosphere just in case you all were looking for more resources for book recommendations. Today we are featuring Wicked Little Pixie. I’ve heard Natasha and Sara are from Canada but their blogging pals cover the rest of the U.S. with Pamela from Texas and Julie from Michigan.

1) When did you first start blogging?

I started blogging way back in the My Dear Diary days back in the mid 90’s, then moved to LiveJournal & Xanga before...

Tuesday Morning News: Kobo strikes first in Japan; Amazon entering Brazil (this all sounds vaguely dirty); contests with Authors

Japan. Big Stock Photo

UK Hotel Now Swapping Kindles With Bibles – The Digital Reader – “A hotel on the east coast of the UK has come up with a gimmick that has all the gadget blogs buzzing today. Hotel Indigo Newcastle, the most recently launched location in the Indigo chain, is swapping out the Gideon bibles you’re used to stealing from finding in the drawers of hotels and motels with an Amazon Kindle.” The Digital Reader

The Bible comes preloaded but you might have to pay for a copy of the K...

Daily Deals: Paranormal, Suspense and Killers for $2.99 and under

No Mercy by Sherrilyn Kenyon. $ 2.99

I haven’t read a Dark Hunter book in quite a while. It was originally published in 2010 and appears to be connected to “Bad Moon Rising”. Kenyon describes the hero as “one of the best love of the Peltier clan.” I don’t know what that means.

From the Jacket Copy:

Live fast, fight hard and if you have to die then take as many of your enemies with you as you can. That is the Amazon credo and it was one Samia lived and died by. Now in contemporary New Orleans,...

REVIEW: Three Weddings and a Murder by Tessa Dare, Leigh LaValle, Courtney Milan, Carey Baldwin

This anthology contains stories by Tessa Dare, Leigh LaValle, Courtney Milan, and Carey Baldwin. The four authors–who call themselvesThe Bodice Rippers–published this anthology to raise money for the fight against breast cancer. When the women wereinterviewedby USA Today, Ms. Baldwin said:

We are a group of four friends who, inspired by the many examples of philanthropy in the romance community, decided to take action in the fight against breast cancer.

We are participating in the Sept. 22 Avon...

REVIEW: Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas

Dear Ms. Thomas:

I knew by the end of chapter one, that this book would be one I would remember for a long time. In just that first chapter a well of emotion swelled up and closed the passage of my throat such that each subsequent page read triggeredfeeling. “Come on baby, make it hurt so good. Sometimes love don't feel like it should. You make it hurt so good” sings, John Cougar Mellancamp.

Milly is the only daughter of a very wealthy merchant. He has bought her the Earl of Fitzhugh, an old m...