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Tuesday Midday Links: Amazon buys Avalon, Kobo offers 30% off Harlequin Titles

30% Off Harlequin Titles with “koboharlequin30″

Apple iPad dominates tablet market, Amazon’s Kindle Fire fizzles – “ABI Research on Monday revealed the results of a its latest study concerning the global tablet market, which grew a whopping 185% year-over-year. The research firm found that Apple’s iPad continued to dominate the market, and after an explosive debut quarter, demand for Amazon’s Kindle Fire has begun to slow. Manufacturers shipped more than 18 million tablets in the first quarter...

REVIEW: Master and God by Lindsey Davis

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Gaius Vinius Clodianus is a reluctant Praetorian Guard, with a disastrous marriage history and post-traumatic stress – but he is a hero. Flavia Lucilla has given the imperial ladies a ridiculous hairstyle and makes toupees for the increasingly paranoid emperor – and she is good at her job. A devastating fire in Rome starts their story then a shared apartment brings them together, leading to a lifelong friendship, passion and love.

Together they watch Domitian’s once talented rule unravel into...

Artifacts of a Regency Life

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The find by Jo Beverly of the Almack’s Voucher on Flickr sent me searching out other photographic evidence of the Regency period. There was something so visceral about the Almack’s voucher and I know having seen it, the image will now reverberate in my memory each time I read a regency. I decided to post a collection of images to make the motion picture in my head more fulsome. I hope you enjoy.

Almack’s Exterior:

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From iBiblio:

The rules were strict and entry was as guarded as any exclusive mode...

BEA Day One: Book Blogger Con

Introduction

It is 11:15 pm as I write this post so forgive my incoherence and forgetfulness. However, I feel that should I delay in putting permanence to my thoughts there will be very little I will remember by the end of the week, as one event rushes on the heels of the next. Today was my first BEA Blogger conference. I recognize that having been blogging since 2006 and an internet denizen for much longer than that, my expectations of educational events associated with blogging might be quit...

REVIEW: A Gentleman Undone by Cecilia Grant

Dear Ms. Grant:

Your debut novel, A Lady Awakened, is one of my favorite Romances of the past year. So I was particularly excited to read A Gentleman Undone, not only to catch up with the delightfully perverse Martha and her new husband, Theo, but also to discover if Martha’s brother, Will, made as fascinating a character study as she did. Had I not loved the first novel so much, I’m not sure I would have persisted to the middle of A Gentleman Undone, where I finally became engaged with the st...

Monday Midday Links: Publishers Weekly’s big piece on romance

Wendy Wax ARC Giveaway – Monday, June 4 is the last day to enter Wendy Wax’s giveaway for one of three advance reader copies of her upcoming OCEAN BEACH, to be sent to the winners prior to the June 26th on sale date. Best of luck to all!! Just go to http://www.writerspace.com/contests/ and scroll down to Wendy’s name.My inbox

Small Towns, Big Sales: Focus on Romance 2012 – “Many publishers are complementing printed books and managing risk with digital imprints. Pocket Books has relaunched Pock...

Dear Author Recommends for June

Contemporaries

Bring Him Home by Karina Bliss, reviewed and recommended by Jane
Unexpected Family by Molly O’Keefe, reviewed and recommended by Jane
About Last Night by Ruthie Knox, reviewed and recommendedby Jane (link live on 6/11)
Lucky in Love by Jill Shavis, recommended by Dabney

Erotic Romance

Chaos Burning by Lauren Dane,reviewed and recommendedby KatiD (link live on 6/5)

Historical

Marriage of Mercy by Carla Kelly,reviewed and recommendedby Jayne
Master and God by Lindsay Davis,to bereviewed a...

REVIEW: Marriage of Mercy by Carla Kelly

Dear Ms. Kelly,

Somehow I got the setting/era for your latest novel, “Marriage of Mercy” completely turned around in my head, thinking that it was going to be set on the American Western Frontier. Then when I went back to the eHarlequin website to recheck the back blurb, I realized that whoever wrote it didn’t actually read the book. There goes me being lazy and borrowing it… Reading it is like a nice sized plate of fresh, warm just baked chocolate chip cookies and a glass of milk. It’s comfor...

DA SBTB Bestseller list, week ending May 28

Bestseller list for week ending May 28, 2012

Chance Encounter (Men of Chance) by Jill Shalvis A | BN | K | S
This Heart of Mine with a Bonus Excerpt: A Novel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips A | BN | K | S
Aftershock (Harlequin Temptation) by Jill Shalvis A | BN | K | S
Room Service (Do Not Disturb) by Jill Shalvis A | BN | K | S
Untraceable by Laura Griffin A | BN | K | S
Her Best Worst Mistake by Sarah Mayberry A | BN | K | S
Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day A | BN | K | S
Br...

REVIEW: Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione

Dear Ms. Ione:

This book was really a struggle for me and I wasn’t quite sure how to approach the review. Ideally books should be reviewed based solely on what happens within the contents of the story. Yet Lethal Rider is the third book in a series of four about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and because there is an overarching plot thread, it is difficult to pick up in the middle of the series and be able to fully comprehend the machinations and goals of the characters. Further, importan...