Q&A with Josh Lanyon discussion
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Brothers of the Wild North Sea is definitely worth of "hoarding". The sense of place you mentioned is incredible in it. So... overwhelming and as beautiful as it possibly can be. You'll absolutely love it, dear.
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Yup, it's a trend that's been building for some time and now has taken off like wildfire.
Not in my sequel, though. ;-)"
Phew! ;-)
I'm currently reading the official report on the 1936 Olympics. Fascinating. Lots of details you wouldn't find anywhere and priceless for my WIP.
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Not ALWAYS, surely... You are confusing me with Mr. Josh, I think. ;-)
K.Z. wrote: "Yup, it's a trend that's been building for some time and now has taken off like wildfire.Not in my sequel, though. ;-) "
Thank god! Though I didn't doubt that for a minute. And yeah, I've seen the trend build a bit, too. Sigh.
Aleksandr wrote: "I'm currently reading the official report on the 1936 Olympics. Fascinating. Lots of details you wouldn't find anywhere and priceless for my WIP."I am geeky enough to say this sounds fascinating. Where'd you find the official report?
K.Z. wrote: "Susinok wrote: "Baby fever has taken over the sequels."Yup, it's a trend that's been building for some time and now has taken off like wildfire.
Not in my sequel, though. ;-)"
Good to know because I've already paid for it ;-).
Susinok - Check these out: http://library.la84.org/6oic/Official...
http://library.la84.org/6oic/Official...
I'm reading the Bellingham Mysteries right now (just started the second story) and I really love them!! Peter's such an awesome character, he has me in stitches with his comments. He's got the most amazing sense of humour. I really don't know why I waited so long to actually read them...
Aleksandr wrote: "Susinok - Check these out: http://library.la84.org/6oic/Official...
http://library.la84.org/6oic/Official..."
Thanks. I just downloaded. The Olympics that was so much a part of history.
I went to bed way, way too late last night reading and skimming these. What a fantastic source. And considering that the next (Winter) Olympics are being held in an autocratic country (to put it mildly), it's more pertinent than ever.
Katharina wrote: "I'm reading the Bellingham Mysteries right now (just started the second story) and I really love them!! Peter's such an awesome character, he has me in stitches with his comments. He's got the most..."Precisely so! :-) So glad you're enjoying them too!
Johanna wrote: "HJ wrote As usual, Johanna, you are right in everything you say!"Not ALWAYS, surely... You are confusing me with Mr. Josh, I think. ;-) ..."
I can't think of an occasion when I didn't agree with you! :)
Katharina wrote: "I'm reading the Bellingham Mysteries right now (just started the second story) and I really love them!! Peter's such an awesome character, he has me in stitches with his comments. He's got the most..."They're great, aren't they? I love the way he drifts off and writes stories in his head. Makes me feel almost normal...
Hj wrote: "Katharina wrote: "I'm reading the Bellingham Mysteries right now (just started the second story) and I really love them!! Peter's such an awesome character, he has me in stitches with his comments...."Exactly. The "obituary" he wrote for himself in his head when he sees his and Nick's place for camping in the snow had me rolling on the floor ("Fontaine's blue, frozen body will be on display at the Freezing Man Snow Sculpture Festival until the North Cascades experience a significant summer snowmelt."). I love that he's always ALWAYS a journalist, at every moment. I have to admit that the mysteries could probably be about someone stealing a cookie and I'd still love those stories.
ETA: maybe the fact that I've just come back from visiting Washington State and actually played around in the snow there four days ago could also be part of the reason why I adore these mysteries....
Hj wrote: "There are some very funny "stories" in Birds of a Feather too!"Oooh, I'm looking forward to that then!! I'm now in the middle of Black Cat Ink. Need to make the most of my last day of vacation ;-D
Aleksandr wrote: "Susinok - Check these out: http://library.la84.org/6oic/Official...
http://library.la84.org/6oic/Official..."
Oooo I will check them out when I am at home. :) Thanks for the link!
Hj wrote: "One of the things I find odd about this is that it will be said about some of these books that they are "easy to read". If a book is badly written or edited I just do not find it easy to read - quite the contrary!"You make an interesting point. I find Josh's books, for example, exceptionally "easy to read." But in my mind that means they're so smoothly written, they're a joy to settle into -- like a clean, well-made bed. :)
Antonella wrote: "Good to know because I've already paid for it ;-)."You are a very brave soul, dear Antonella. :)
P.S. I demand you all stop talking about the Bellingham mysteries. They sound much too tempting, and I'm already juggling three books in addition to The Haunted Heart installments!
K.Z. wrote: "P.S. I demand you all stop talking about the Bellingham mysteries. They sound much too tempting, and I'm already juggling three books in addition to The Haunted Heart installments!"You will be assimilated. It's just a matter of time...
K.Z. wrote: "P.S. I demand you all stop talking about the Bellingham mysteries. They sound much too tempting, and I'm already juggling three books in addition to The Haunted Heart installments!"LOL, I'll try to reign myself in, then. You should know, though, that it's really freaking hard to do so... *evilgrin*
Susinok wrote: "You will be assimilated. It's just a matter of time..."Sheesh, you people can be frightening!
K.Z. wrote: "Susinok wrote: "You will be assimilated. It's just a matter of time..."Sheesh, you people can be frightening!"
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Oooh, I'm so in need of a clean, well-made bed right now! And I love to share a bed like that, too!
(Too weird?) :-)
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Not ALWAYS, surely... You are confusing me with Mr. Josh, I think. ;-) ..."
I can't think of an occasion when I d..."
:-) :-) :-)
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KC is just starting to read the #3 book of Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter mysteries and she would love to discuss the series in this group. I've had my The Complete Brandstetter waiting to be read for some time now and at least some of you have also been talking about reading this series. What would you guys think if we'd set up a topic for Hansen's Dave Brandstetter mysteries (12 books)? Maybe under something like Special BOM Project, Autumn 2013? All twelve books will take a lot of time to read after all. :-)
Aaaaanyway, I won't set up a topic before I'll hear what you guys think about this idea -- and if there will be enough group members willing to take part in the "challenge". KC and I both remember Josh wishing that we would discuss the series here in his group when we'll start reading it. We thought that setting up own topic for it would make the discussion easier. So, what do you guys think?
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KC is just starting to read the #3 book of Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter mysteries and she would love to discuss the series in this group. I've h..."
I'd be on board. Digging out my high-powered beading magnifier now... : )
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KC is just starting to read the #3 book of Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter mysteries and she would love to discuss the series in th..."
LOL. Oh yes, I'd probably have to do some magnifying glass shopping before we'd start... ;-)
Glad to hear that you'd be on board, Karen.
That's a good idea. I could finally start to read The Complete Brandstetter which I bought in *ehmm...* October 2009.
K.Z. wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Good to know because I've already paid for it ;-)."You are a very brave soul, dear Antonella. :)"
You're mixing up things here: you are a very good writer! ;-)
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We can be each other's cheerleaders, then. :-)
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But that's just me. Btw. I might even have time to read it in August if its chosen with enough time for me to buy it. I'd really like to!
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We're working our way through the last of the first ten selections chosen by Caroline and I just posted the next ten selections yesterday.
If anyone hasn't joined in but would like to, you're more than welcome!
Just finished You Get Full Credit For Being Alive by Cari Z, a free novella that's part of the M/M Romance Group's Love Has No Boundaries event.Totally dug it. Highly recommend it to action-romance fans (especially if you liked Zero at the Bone.) It has a similar vibe as the story's about a former assassin who helps an injured cop that he found beaten and abandoned in the woods behind his house. It's a little less than 40,000 words, but still nicely meaty, and has a great slow developing relationship. :D
For anyone interested, a downloadable version can be grabbed from the group's site here: http://www.mmromancegroup.com/?p=20924
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I think that's a great idea, Jordan! We could have the first Dave Brandstetter mysteries book Fadeout as August BOM book and then continue reading and discussing the rest of the series from there. We've been talking so many times about wanting to read Fadeout in this group. And now it can be found in e-format, too.
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Jordan wrote: "Ttg- you're making me wish I hadn't left the group. That story sounds perfect, just the kind of thing I like. :-)"Hi Jordan
You don't actually need to be a member of the group to read the stories. Downloads in multi formats are being made available at http://www.mmromancegroup.com for this year's event
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Cool. :-)
I actually have The Complete Brandstetter here in the countryside with me, but it's alarmingly starting to look like that I won't have time to start reading it until after Manchester and Scotland (in the other words sometime near the end of July). I've been so exhausted in the evenings after all the painting and building that I've actually been too tired to read much. :-) I've never read Hansen before, so I'm really looking forward to this.
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LOL. Yeah, there should be a magnifying glass to go with every purchased The Complete Brandstetter. You must be a lot younger than I am, so probably you'd manage without it, though. But I'm on the verge of needing specs for reading anyway... that's something I really have to start considering in the near future, I'm afraid. Well, I've always thought that reading glasses are pretty sexy -- at least on other people. ;-)
Dev's free short story has been posted on the web- 15,000 word count
at http://www.mmromancegroup.com/?p=1098...Very Fun- Thanks, Dev!
How do you rate a book when it's done all you can say is "Thank god it's over!". Babies. Sigh.So I am now reading Out Of Focus by LA Witt. It's a menage/bdsm. Guaranteed baby-free!
Johanna wrote: "Jordan wrote: "I would love to read that series, but I'd kind of like to read the first one for a BOM. Something to get me into the first book at least. Otherwise, the way my book buying and readin..."I recently read Fadeout and Death Claims and have Troublemaker here ready to read. All in paperback, since I was using my new Amazon Prime account for free shipping. LOL.
I hear there were e-book formatting issues with the first two books, which have been available as ebooks for a while. The last 10 ebooks were VERY recently released by another company, and at least one person indicated here that those seem to be okay. So if any of you have issues trying to read the first couple as ebooks, hopefully the rest will be okay. I plan to eventually get the rest of them as ebooks now.
Anyway, I'd love to discuss them as a BOM or other project, though I can't promise to write nearly as much as you folks do when you disect a book. But I LOVE following along and reading what you write! :-)
ttg wrote: "Just finished You Get Full Credit For Being Alive by Cari Z, a free novella that's part of the M/M Romance Group's Love Has No Boundaries event.Totally dug it. Highly recommend it to action-roman..."
Thank you very much. I've been wanting to read more of the LHNB stories, especially now that they are available for download. But right now I simply don't have time to read them all!
I know that last summer there was a list where people were rating the various Love is Always Write books. Is there a similar list anywhere for the new ones yet?
Marge wrote: "I know that last summer there was a list where people were rating the various Love is Always Write books. Is there a similar list anywhere for the new ones yet? "Here is the list of all the stories with their GR pages. There are no ratings on this list though, just all the stories in the order that they have come out (or will be coming out. There's a few future ones at the end that haven't been released yet.)
http://www.goodreads.com/series/10483...
And here is the page again that anyone can access to find and download e-versions of the stories. They can be found by author or release date: http://www.mmromancegroup.com/
I haven't read too many, but so far my faves have been Nor Iron Bars a Cage, Treasure, and You Get Full Credit For Being Alive.
Marge wrote: "The last 10 ebooks were VERY recently released by another company, and at least one person indicated here that those seem to be okay...."Here is the publisher's website:
http://www.openroadmedia.com/joseph-h...
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This is something I, too, do from time to time -- read the Administration shorts for comfort. It's always so rewarding to visit "Torrick" (LOL) even for a short time! :-)