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Adam’s Flight is COMING SOON

Soooo….. I haven’t written a blog post since April! Yikes. The main reason for that is, that I spent a lot of my free timeworking on a short story for the goodreads.com M/M Romance Group’s annual ‘Don’t Read in the Closet’ event, which this year is titled Love’s Landscapes. Then my hubby and I decided to try our had at some DIY renovations and were met withvarying degrees of disaster and success. That is a whole other story, but suffice it to say my blogging time has been limited.

I started pa...

Special Delivery Book Three, TOUGH LOVE is Coming April 8th!

~Penny’s Rating: A- ~

I feel like I waited forever for this book to come out. I am so grateful to Heidi Cullinan for the ARC, because I don’t think I would have been able to take it if I had to wait all the way to April 8, 2014. For those of you who have managed to stay sane, the wait is almost over, and Tough Love will be hitting the shelves next Tuesday. *Dances happy dance*

Tough Love is a nice continuation of the SD series. For me, it was like coming home and visiting old friends. It was so...

John Goode’s Tales from Foster High Series

Penny’s Rating for the Series: A+

~I’ve been meaning to write something about this series for a while. Since the tale of Foster High is now finished, I thought it was time. By the way, this whole post is basically going to be a love letter to author John Goode, combined with me rehashing my own coming of age, so if you want to skip it, I understand, but seriously, these books are awesome, and you should read them. I would love to see copies of these in every junior high and high school library...

The Best Part is Now Free on Smashwords!

Yes- My short story, The Best Part is now available on Smashwords. For FREE! Click HERE to get it! It is also out on Nook, Scribd and the rest of the regular Smashwords distribution channels.

Book Blurb: Best buddies Manny Velazquez and Ben Green grew up together. Now after ten years of living separate lives in separate states, they are reunited as roommates when Manny comes back to their hometown for a job. Growing up, Manny was a skinny geek, but not anymore. Now he’s this super buff fitness...

A DOUBLE BLIND (Special Delivery #2) Re-Release Review

By Heidi Cullinan

Penny’s Rating: A

Happy Valentine’s Day All! In honor of the re-release of Book 2 in the Special Delivery Series which will be hitting shelves on March 4, 2014, I thought what could be better than a V-Day review with a little kink? FYI- this review contains mature content.

I first read this novel back in 2012 not long after I finished Special Delivery. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I have read this series several times and did re-read the Samahain re-issue of Double Blind,...

SPECIAL DELIVERY is BACK!

Squeeeeee!!!!! One of my favorite series of is back! Special Delivery is awesome. Heidi Cullinan is awesome. The Special Delivery series is back with all new publisher, Samhain Publishing! This book will melt your socks off and leave you in a giant happy pile of goo. I am re-posing my original review of this fabulously kinky, sexy novel below. Since this review, I have read this novel several times and every time, I love it. Also, there is anexcerpt on Heidi’s website!!! There will be more to...

To Scribd, or Not To Scribd? That is the Question.

So… I signed up for Scribd. I am still in my trial month. In case you have been living under a rock and are thinking, “Penny, what in the dickens is Scribd?” Scribd is an essentially a digital library via tablet and web app. Subscribers can pay a monthly subscription fee of $8.99 to have access to Scribd’s library to read an unlimited number of books a month. Check out Scribd’s about page for more information. I love the concept of a “Netflix for books”, but I was and still am a little uncert...

Continental Divide FREE for Kindle (for now anyway)…

Yep. So in late 2013 I noticed this book,Continental Divide (Separate Ways, #1),up for free on Amazon. I read the sample, and ended up downloading it. I devoured it and ended up buying the other books in the series, Oceans Apartand Moving Mountains, anddevouring them too. Continental Dividealso free on Smashwords, and .99 cents on Barnes & Noble. Definitely worth the free read, and you might just get hooked!

Publisher Description:” Detective Remington frickin’ hates the missing persons detail,...

Penny’s Best Reads of 2013

OK folks,

Here is my list of books/ stories I read in 2013 that I gave A’s/ 5 stars to! I LOVED these. You can’t go wrong reading any of them! The average ratings listed below are from Goodreads, as well as links to Goodreads book and author pages. Happy New Year everyone!

Penny’s Top Rated Novels of 2013



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Notes From Penny










The Sky Is Dead


Brown, Sue*


4.18


Apr 17, 2013


Full review with excerpt at:PennyReadsRomance











Until Forever Comes(Mates, #2)


C., Cardeno*


3.85


May...

“Let it Snow” by Heidi Cullinan – Blog Tour

Penny’s Rating: B


~Book BlurbThe weather outside is frightful, but this Minnesota northwoods cabin is getting pretty hot.Stylist Frankie Blackburn never meant to get lost in Logan, Minnesota, but his malfunctioning GPS felt otherwise, and a record-breaking snowfall ensures he won’t be heading back to Minneapolis anytime soon. Being rescued by three sexy lumberjacks is fine as a fantasy, but in reality the biggest of the bears is awfully cranky and seems ready to gobble Frankie right up. Marcus...