Theodora Taylor's Blog, page 8
August 13, 2013
Are you Tiffany Ashley?
Just received this message on Facebook:
Hi Theodora! I’m a huge fan, I have read everything you write. I have a crazy off the wall question for you. [....] I just read ‘love script’ by Tiffany Ashley last night and was wondering if you are the same person. Like G.A. Aiken is Shelly Laurenston. I know its a strange question, but authors writing are as distinctive as speaking voices. And their is the fact that the characters names are really similar; Nicholas Sinclair instead of Nathan. The stor...
August 7, 2013
You’re so unclassy, Theodore!
I’ve gotten a few (always anonymous) comments about my reviewing other IR authors’ novels. My first response to my very first comment ishere.
But I wanted to answer this comment, because 1) I was super-impressed that someone leaving one of these comments admitted to being another IR Romance Author. Finally! Maybe someone will actually use their name one of these days–fingers crossed for 2014. And, 2) It brought me some amusement, because initially I was accused of getting sales by reviewing wa...
August 6, 2013
TO HOLD AND TO LOVE and TO HOLD AND TO HEAL by Naomi Lecroy
Description:
TO HOLD AND TO HEAL: Nice is at her wit’s end, struggling to keep her alcoholic father’s bar and grill open after the death of her brother, dealing with flaky employees, and just about working herself to death. She more than needs some sexual diversion, so when a sexy vet with a limp offers her a one night stand, she takes him up on it–only to have him walk through the bar’s door the next day. As it turns out, he was one of her dead brother’s best friend’s. He promised her brother...
July 30, 2013
BEAST by Pepper Pace
Description:When plus-size beauty, Ashleigh, meets Chris, a “beast” of a marine with a face disfigured from a cleft palate at the gym, sparks fly. But can she overcome her baggage and make an HEA happen with the best man she’s ever had the honor of dating? BEAST quite deservedly made it to the semi-final rounds of this year’s Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.
The Good: I’m so late on this, that I doubt anyone who reads this review hasn’t actually already read the book yet. But I’m going...
July 29, 2013
A BATTLE RAGING by Sharon Cullars
Description: When Maya Temple, an earnest art teacher meets her new student, Zachary Yarborough, an unruly, paraplegic war vet with PTSD, it’s clash at first sight. Can these two learn to see eye to eye in art and in love?
The Good:If you’re looking for something a little different, this is the book for you. BATTLE is finely written with well-realized characters, who actually feel like real people. I liked the Maya character especially and really wanted to take her art class–too bad I don’t li...
July 1, 2013
HIS ONE AND ONLY is here!
If you haven’t already picked up my latest book HIS ONE AND ONLY, please do me the favor of doing so. Here’s the description:
The sixth smoking hot interracial romance in the 50 Loving States series!
Fifteen years ago, Josie Witherspoon vowed to leave Alabama and never, ever think of Beau Prescott, the rich high school quarterback who broke her heart, again. Well…
Life didn’t quite work out that way. One terrible failed marriage later, and she’s right back in Alabama, now working as a housekeepe...
HIS ONE AND ONLY Now on Sale and Why I Always Lie About My OnSale Dates
So on Friday, I quietly posted HIS ONE AND ONLY for sale at Amazon. Three days before my promised release date.
And on Saturday, I woke up with a thousand tweaks and 300 new scenes in my head. Okay it was five tweaks and two new scenes–but the point is that I know this will happen. Every single time.
I seem to have some sort of writing disability that doesn’t allow me to see certain needed tweaks and new scenes until the book is up and published. At the same time, this affliction might be bette...
June 12, 2013
WHATEVER HE WANTS by Eve Vaughn
Description: When the shy, sensitive, and damaged artist, Noelle Greene, collides with the handsome, commanding, and also-damaged alpha male, James Rothschild, sparks fly, but dignity gets destroyed.
The Good: What an intense novel and what a crazy and tumultuous relationship. I ripped through this book and couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. It was like reading a paso doble.
As someone with natural hair and anxiety issues, who ended up in a different field than what I studied in college, the...
June 11, 2013
Gone for Good?
That was the subject line of an email I just received about three hours ago, the last in a long line of emails I’ve received over the past almost six months; and man, do I feel terrible.
I work in a very content-focused business, and I often assume that no one wants to hear from me unless I have…well, content. So I haven’t been reading or answering email or much of anything, because I was focused on creating content, both for the day job and for 50 Loving States series.
So do I apologize for th...
February 12, 2013
SPECIAL KIND OF WOMAN by Jamallah Bergman
Note of apology: I haven’t not been posting as much for happy reasons. Life has been a little too bountiful as of late, and I’ve been struggling to keep up. I’m hoping to have a handle on all my blessings soon–especially since they’re keeping me from reading as much as I’d like. Boo-hoo-hoo!
Description: Collin Noonan is handsome, rich, and the youngest executive at his company. He’s also an asshole, and is only flirting with plain jane mailroom clerk, Regina Talbot, in order to win a game — b...
