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REVIEW: True Colors, Natural Evil, Devil’s Gate by Thea Harrison

The following are reviews for three novellas written by Thea Harrison, published by Samhain, and set in her Elder Races world. While I understand that men on the cover sell better, the stories are almost all focused on the female characters. Finally, a common thread throughout the three books is the strangeness of the Wyr. Alice is a chameleon. Claudia is a former military part Other. Seremela is a medusa, with a head full of snakes. I like that Harrison is taking chances, even small ones, in...

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Introduction

Cheaper by the Dozen byFrank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey ( A | BN | K | S ) features parents who are efficiency experts. They study tasks and reduce the number of steps to complete the tasks. To me, that is one of the coolest things ever.

Many people ask me how I do everything: the blogging, the lawyering, the parenting. First, I have a loving and supportive husband. Second, I set time aside every day to spend with my child. Third, I have a great team of revie...

The biggest threat to publishing isn’t Amazon; it’s Angry Birds (why publishers should invest in libraries)

My nephew plays for an elite high school basketball club. I know it is elite because it is one of a few high school teams in the state that is sponsored by Nike. Yes, sponsored. Kids in our state from the ages of about 14 and through 18 can play on teams that travel around the country and play in tournaments. Their entire ticket is funded by Nike. Nike pays the traveling costs, per diem, and tournament fees and provides the uniforms (two sets), warm up jerseys, socks, shoes, and travel bag. A...

Recommended Reads Saturday: Hard Magic by Laura Anne Gilman

Hard Magic by Laura Anne Gilman is recommended by E_, from the Book Pushers from http://www.thebookpushers.com. You can also find “E” at Goodreads under e_bookpushers.

From the words of E:

I am recommending this book because Set in the Cosa Nostradamus world HARD MAGIC is book one of the Paranormal Scene Investigations series. It introduces a group of mostly 20-somethings currently who are all very determined, have their own particular skills involving the use of Current (magic), and are inv...

REVIEW: Chase Me by Tamara Hogan

Dear Ms. Hogan:

I’ve been trying to read different sounding paranormals as much as possible in hopes to revive my love and interest in them. “Chase Me” is a blend science fiction with traditional paranormal myths however during much of the book I kept regretting I hadn’t started with the first in the series because I did not have a good feel on the world building. It wasn’t until about 40% into the book I discovered that the paranormal beings on Earth descended from supernaturals that crash la...

First Page: Untitled

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. You can submit your own First Page using this form.

The house looked like something from Superman’s birth cave, all ice and angles and unrelenting glare. Hester hated it with an unnatural passion. She stared up at the monstrosity that was now her closest neighbor and f...

REVIEW: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Dear Ms. Bardugo,

After your debut YA, Shadow and Bone, was recommended to me, I looked it up. What I read about it got my attention, because the book is a historical fantasy set in a world based on Russia. I ordered an ARC through NetGalley and began to read.

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Shadow and Bone gets off to a good start with a prologue about a pair of orphans, girl and boy, who live in an orphan home on a duke’s estate. They are very close to one another, almost inseparable, each replacing for the other the family...

REVIEW: Let Me In by Callie Croix

Dear Ms. Croix,

I enjoyed your book but am baffled it’s listed as a BDSM novel. Carina Press is touting it as such and it’s not. Yes, hottie Liam Brodie likes to call the shots between the sheets and he’s had a (straight) sexually adventurous past. But, even though he has some smoking sex with Talia Barnett, there’s nothing BDSM between the two. I don’t particularly care about the mislabeling, but havingLet Me Inso miscategorized may alienate readers looking for BDSM books and scare those off...

Friday Film Review: Caramel

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Genre: Dramedy

Grade: B-

When I was thinking of more “wedding” movies for this month, I remembered this quiet little film from Lebanon. Though there is a wedding here, it actually focuses more on the intertwining lives of five women. And while it might lack the depth that would have come from limiting the number of subplots, it’s a great ensemble piece that avoids politics or the usual focus on the negative aspects of the region.

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“Caramel revolves around the intersecting lives of...

BEA Day Four: Harlequin, Entangled, and Closing Thoughts on BEA

Harlequin

I met with Harlequin today and asked some of your questions.

About 500 Harlequin Treasury titles will be released in July.
DRM is an ongoing discussion. There is no unanimity amongst authors about DRM. I posited that perhaps that is why Tor went DRM free but not the rest of Macmillan. The Tor authors, particularly the big influential authors, have no love for DRM. I asked whether Carina Press titles had suffered piracy at a greater rate than the DRM’ed books and I was told “not to thei...