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What's So Quirky About Victoria Morgan?

Ever wonder why we're called The Quirky Ladies? My son Cristian couldn't pronounce the word "critique," so one day he asked me if I was meeting with "those quirky ladies." Which I thought was totally hilarious, since we are, indeed, quirky in our own special way! To celebrate our inner quirkiness, I will be posting a list of our quirks each Monday for the next 6 weeks. To get us started, may I introduce, Victoria Morgan...
What's So Quirky About Victoria Morgan?Amateur artist, specializing in...

Review of Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan

Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan
Wow. Wow. Wow.
In a million gazillion years, I could have never guessed that Christine Feehan would completely, irrevocably, inexplicably, undeniably redeem herself with this beautiful love story. I am in complete shock. This book was wonderful, and....sweet! And, the hero was....a beta male, not an alpha male!!!!! A freakin' Carpathian beta male hero....will wonders never cease??? This is completely unlike any other book in the Dark series, and in my not so...

Are You Kidding Me?

Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig are starring together in the Broadway play A Steady Rain. Something tells me those tickets are gonna go fast! :)

I'm thinking...I'm thinking....Gregor Klaus (Hugh with a goatee) and Sven Klaus (Daniel with shaggier hair)? Oh, the possibilities are endless...this is simply too good to be true!
Pondering the possibilities,Penelope

Review of A Christmas Ball by Jennifer Ashley, Emily Bryan and Alissa Johnson

A Christmas Ball by Jennifer Ashley, Emily Bryan, and Alissa Johnson
Right off the bat, let me just say....I have a thing about Christmas romantic fiction. As soon as the weather cools and the apples are ripe for picking, I rush to the nearest bookstore (or my handy Amazon website) to check out all of the new Christmas romance novels. I love long ones. I love short ones. I love paranormal, historical, contemporary, etc. etc. I LOVE Christmas anthologies. Among my favorites are Mary Balogh's span

Books to Movies

This summer, I was asked to be a guest reviewer on the blog Penelope's Romance Reviews, authored by a friend of mine.  Penelope gives her not so humble opinions on romance novels, and her sassy colloquial voice is always a fun read and a great site from which to choose your next romance read. 
In the wake of its recent movie release, I chose to review Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, which is a favorite of mine.  I wanted to give a plug for the book just in case the movie took ...

4 Book Labor Day Monday

Had a fabulous Labor Day Weekend! Hung out and relaxed with the fam. Yesterday was a gorgeous, sunny, cool, fallish day here outside of Beantown, and I lounged on the deck with a parcel of books. For some inexplicable reason, I sucked down 4, yes 4! romance novels yesterday. Lest you think I wasted the entire day doing this, I would like to point out that I also completed a 2-hour hike with the fam, and hosted a "hot schmoes night" (s'mores) at my house for the neighborhood kids. I am an...

THE WINNER OF THE STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL TALE OF MISS PERCY PARKER IS...

Kimberly B. Congratulations Kimberly on winning a copy of this fantastic book! Please email me at michelle@michellepicard.com with your mailing contact information so you can receive your copy. Thanks to everyone for stopping by to hear Leanna's ghost stories.

Creature Multi Feature: Review of Jeaniene Frost's Huntress Series

Destined For An Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Just finished book #4 of the Night Huntress Series by Jeaniene Frost, Destined for An Early Grave. Read One Foot in the Grave (#2) and At Grave's End (#3) over my summer vacation week. This series is absolutely spell-binding! There are so many utterly great things about it, I'm not sure where to begin exactly. Okay, for the first time in my romantic fiction-inspired life, I understand why first person POV is supposed to be cool. I become Cat when...

Friday Quickie Update

First of all, I just finished the novella "My Lady Below Stairs" by Emily Bryan in the Christmas anthology A Christmas Ball, which will be released September 29. Oh my God!!! Adorable, fun, sexy, sweet...everything a Christmas story should be (and I guess I'm sort of the expert on that!). I did not have a chance to read the other stories yet, but I'll get to them soon. Review coming soon! 
Also just finished Destined for an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost. Frost continues to astound me with...

Wazz up?

On the news front....
Eloisa James has a new chapter for A Duke Of Her Own on her cool website....it's cute! I hope she is planning a book for Tobias. Hmm...maybe I'll email her and ask? I also just joined her facebook site. Stalker much? 
Also, Christine Feehan's newest Dark book is out....Dark Slayer. I have been really looking forward to this one, since it's Razvan and Ivory's story. However, in light of the recent debacle Hidden Currents, I decided to wait and get some feedback on this...