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[Johanna]

KC wrote: "I read Joanna Chambers and Annika Martin's prequel Enemies with Benefits to the novella they have coming up on the 15th. It was awesome! so i can't wait for the MCs adventures."

Cool. I want to read this. By the way, Enemies with Benefits is such a fun title! :-)

[Johanna]

Antonella wrote: " by Ginn Hale is out in October, pre-order here:
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Past-Other......"

Looking forward to this one.

[Johanna]

Johanna wrote: "KC wrote: "I read Joanna Chambers and Annika Martin's prequel Enemies with Benefits to the novella they have coming up on the 15th. It was awesome! so i can't wait for the MCs adventures."

Cool. I..."

Oookay, I've now read Enemies with Benefits and I must say that it was highly entertaining. :-) Also, a pretty brilliant idea to have a free prequel/prologue like this to get readers hooked and hungry for more... worked for me like charm. :-D

[Alison]

KC wrote: "And Amy Rae Durreson's Recovery is waiting on my Kindle as of this morning, yay!"


I know! Woohoo! I've been looking forward to hearing about Arden from the beginning. :)
I'm still gloriously lost in the woods re-reading Shirewode and its friends, so the dragons will have to wait until next week.

[KC]

Johanna wrote: "Johanna wrote: "KC wrote: "I read Joanna Chambers and Annika Martin's prequel Enemies with Benefits to the novella they have coming up on the 15th. It was awesome! so i can't wait for the MCs adven..."

I thought so too :-)

[Antonella]

Johanna wrote: "Oookay, I've now read Enemies with Benefits and I must say that it was highly entertaining. :-) Also, a pretty brilliant idea to have a free prequel/prologue like this to get readers hooked and hungry for more... worked for me like charm. :-D"

Can someone tell me where to get it? I wouldn't like to be the only one to pay for it: I can't get it for free from amazon.co.uk, only at amazon.com where it costs $1.09. I don't find it on smashwords.

[Calathea]

Antonella wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Oookay, I've now read Enemies with Benefits and I must say that it was highly entertaining. :-) Also, a pretty brilliant idea to have a free prequel/prologue like this to get reader..."

On Google Play it's free. They said they had problems to make it free on ama. JL Merrow had a post on fb with other places where it's free.

[Alison]

Antonella wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Oookay, I've now read Enemies with Benefits and I must say that it was highly entertaining. :-) Also, a pretty brilliant idea to have a free prequel/prologue like this to get reader..."

I got it free on Kobo.

Look here: https://www.kobo.com/nz/en/ebook/enem...

[Antonella]

Thank you, Calathea and Alison.

[Jordan]

I just found this immensely useful book just now at the library and thought I would pass it on, because, yeah, this is important stuff we never think about until it's too late: There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love.

[Johanna]

Antonella wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Oookay, I've now read Enemies with Benefits and I must say that it was highly entertaining. :-) Also, a pretty brilliant idea to have a free prequel/prologue like this to get reader..."

It was free for me on Amazon.com, but it must depend on the country.

[KC]

Read Laurie Boris' The Picture of Cool - very well-written short novella, but then the ending kind of ruined it for me, so frustratingly abrupt, as if the author decided they've had enough of it.

Also read JL Merrow's Wake Up Call, which i loved. The last few chapters meandered a bit, but overall i thought it was lovely.

[KC]

And Alexis Hall's awesome short story "Behind the Mask" in the anthology Winter Rain.

[Antonella]

KC wrote: "And Alexis Hall's awesome short story "Behind the Mask" in the anthology Winter Rain."

LOL! I came here to say that I've just finished How to Bang a Billionaire. I loved it (4 stars), but less than For Real (5 stars).

[KC]

Antonella wrote: "KC wrote: "And Alexis Hall's awesome short story "Behind the Mask" in the anthology Winter Rain."

LOL! I came here to say that I've just finished [book:How to Bang a Billionaire|31..."

:-)

Glad you enjoyed it!

[Jordan]

Just started my first Dean Koontz book of the year, but also joined a GR group dedicated to his work, so I'll have more motivation to read all the books I own. :-)

I've also started his How to Write Best Selling Fiction, which came out several million decades ago, and which he swears no one should ever bother to read because it's so out-of-date, and which is now so rare it can cost up to $300 (that I've seen). So far, it's actually not bad. I'm sure the chapter on publishing and the market will not be worth anything, but so far the general tips are good. Though I think there's a chapter near the end that specifically says writers should stay far away from mystery and romance genres, according to one review I read. I just laughed. I can't wait to read that one. lol.

[Karen]

Thanks for the reminders to read Wake Up Call. I got it and A Gathering Storm on pre-order, but sidelined them for other reading. These are #1 and #2 from Riptide's Porthkennack books (same setting, different times).

I'm reading Julie Bozza's The Fine Point of His Soul, a gothic mystery (not a romance) with a cast that includes a particular trio of Romantic poets and some wise input from Mary Shelley.

[Antonella]

Karen wrote: "I'm reading Julie Bozza's The Fine Point of His Soul, a gothic mystery (not a romance) with a cast that includes a particular trio of Romantic poets and some wise input from Mary Shelley."

I've seen she published this, and I usually love what she writes, but I cannot bring myself to read this kind of literary fiction with real writers and poets in it...

[Karen]

Antonella wrote: "Karen wrote: "I'm reading Julie Bozza's The Fine Point of His Soul, a gothic mystery (not a romance) with a cast that includes a particular trio of Romantic poets and some wise input from Mary Shel..."

I enjoy this sort of story when it's well done, and of course Bozza does it quite well. My preference is to already have some background on the figures involved. I took classes in the early-mid 1970s on the Romantic English poets, memorable still. It was a time when my friends and I imagined ourselves as artists, defying the norms, and shining brightly in our youth and beauty. :) In fact, we had no inkling that the young men and women we emulated (our peers in age) had already done more, and more affected the world than any of us managed then or since.

I still hold Keats very dear to my heart. I found this story to be a lovely homage to him.

Another very great plus is that, other than the notion of members of this particular group trapped within their own gothic mystery, this is absolutely nothing like Ken Russell's Gothic. ;)

[Antonella]

We might be reading PsyCop 8 already end of June!

Here what Jordan Castillo Price writes:

While I don't have a release date for you yet, I am happy to tell you that PsyCop 8 is through its first round of editing, and if all goes well with the editing and with my impending move, I would love for it to hit the shelves before the end of June. Keep your eyes peeled for a cover reveal and release date very soon!

See the rest of the interesting blog entry here: http://mailchi.mp/psycop/where-is-hom...

[Jordan]

Antonella wrote: "We might be reading PsyCop 8 already end of June!

Here what Jordan Castillo Price writes:

While I don't have a release date for you yet, I am happy to tell you that PsyCop 8 is th..."

I sooo can't wait for this!

[Alison]

Karen wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Karen wrote: "I'm reading Julie Bozza's The Fine Point of His Soul, a gothic mystery (not a romance) with a cast that includes a particular trio of Romantic poets and some wise in..."

This sounds neat and I will have to check it out.

If anyone's interested in a fascinating and imaginative alternate history featuring those same Romantic poets as secondary characters, I highly recommend Tim Powers' The Stress of Her Regard. It's somewhat a paranormal Gothic horror road trip and it's fantastic and very entertaining. It's pretty out there as a story, so I felt very distanced from the real people, which I think is good thing. The timeline is true, but the reasons things are happening are very different--like Keats still dies slowly, but it sure isn't from tuberculosis. I thought this was really cool and I totally loved it.

[Alison]

Summerwode! J. Tullos Hennig's fourth queer Robin Hood historical fantasy is out and I am so thrilled. Starting it and attempting to savour it! :)

[Jordan]

Alison wrote: "Summerwode! J. Tullos Hennig's fourth queer Robin Hood historical fantasy is out and I am so thrilled. Starting it and attempting to savour it! :)"

Oh cool! I'm still waiting for the third one to come out in audio, since that's how I read the first two, I'd like to stick with that if I can.

[Alison]

Jordan wrote: "Alison wrote: "Summerwode! J. Tullos Hennig's fourth queer Robin Hood historical fantasy is out and I am so thrilled. Starting it and attempting to savour it! :)"

Oh cool! I'm still waiting for the third one to come out in audio, since that's how I read the first two, I'd like to stick with that if I can. ..."

You have a will of iron, my friend. :)
It's been a fair while and I could not have waited so patiently. I also hope the rest of the books are going to be done in audio. They work well in that format. Fingers crossed.

[Jordan]

Alison wrote: "Jordan wrote: "Alison wrote: "Summerwode! J. Tullos Hennig's fourth queer Robin Hood historical fantasy is out and I am so thrilled. Starting it and attempting to savour it! :)"

Oh..."

It helps ( think) that there are so many other books I need to read, both for myself and for my job. I have no time to even agitate over this series!

[Jordan]

I should be finishing up The Key to Midnight tonight, and then I'll be starting the March: Book One graphic novel trilogy about John Lewis's experiences with civil rights activism for my book group.

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

I read March one and two and really liked them. I need to read book 3 though.

[Jordan]

Even in my library, it's not easy. Thankfully, we had/have still, a librarian who's been on the romance ordering committee, who also reads mm, so she ordered them when she could. Still, I wish more mm books were available through overdrive. That's what made creating my mm Guide so difficult. I couldn't just add the books I've read and enjoyed. Not only that, but these books, unless we keep reordering them, will disappear and will need to be replaced in the Guide. The way ebooks work is you either get them for a specific number of check outs or a specific amount of time, maybe a year or two, before they go away and need to be ordered again, if they're even still available. Paper books get stolen all the time, but they last longer!

[Jordan]

I just finished book 3 of March. Wow. What a story. This would have made it all stick in my head better when I was in high school!

[Jordan]

Hopefully this link will work for all of you. Here is my LibGuide for M/M Romance. I hope you like it!

http://guides.bpl.org/GayRomance

[Rosa]

Jordan wrote: "Hopefully this link will work for all of you. Here is my LibGuide for M/M Romance. I hope you like it!

http://guides.bpl.org/GayRomance"

OMG! Jordan, that's so awesome! It's impressive *_______*

[Sabine]

Jordan, thank you for sharing your work! So well done! I have looked immediately through all your categories.

[Elena]

Jordan wrote: "Hopefully this link will work for all of you. Here is my LibGuide for M/M Romance. I hope you like it!

http://guides.bpl.org/GayRomance"

Like Rosa said, it's really impressive. You did a really great job, Jordan!
I'm sure you'll convert a lot of readers to the world of MM romance. ;)

Also, you had me squealing like a little girl when I saw that the library you work for is the Boston Public. Such a gorgeous building with a lovely atmosphere, I fell in love with it when I visited it during my trip to Boston.
It's one of my fondest memories from that vacation, thank you for bringing me back to that afternoon. :)

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

Jordan wrote: "Hopefully this link will work for all of you. Here is my LibGuide for M/M Romance. I hope you like it!

http://guides.bpl.org/GayRomance"

Thank you. It is an excellent resource.

[Antonella]

Jordan wrote: "Hopefully this link will work for all of you. Here is my LibGuide for M/M Romance. I hope you like it!

http://guides.bpl.org/GayRomance"

Thank you for your work. It looks good!

[Alison]

Jordan wrote: "Hopefully this link will work for all of you. Here is my LibGuide for M/M Romance. I hope you like it!

http://guides.bpl.org/GayRomance"

Excellent, Jordan! Thank you for all your hard work and for making the world a better place. :)

[Jordan]

Thanks guys! I'm so glad you like it!

And yes, lol, now you all know where I work. :-)

Elena, that's awesome that you were able to remember your time here! If you ever get back to Boston, check out the renovation we did over the last few years. We're a very different place now!

[Loretta]

Jordan wrote: "Hopefully this link will work for all of you. Here is my LibGuide for M/M Romance. I hope you like it!

http://guides.bpl.org/GayRomance"

That's wonderful. You have such great books listed. I'll have to go back and look at the ones I haven't read yet.

[Karen]

Jordan wrote: "Hopefully this link will work for all of you. Here is my LibGuide for M/M Romance. I hope you like it!

http://guides.bpl.org/GayRomance"

Wow! Jordan, this is really impressive. It's a great resource and (hopefully) an example for other libraries.

[Johanna]

What everyone else said — well done, Jordan. You rock! :-)

[Haldis]

Jordan wrote: "Hopefully this link will work for all of you. Here is my LibGuide for M/M Romance. I hope you like it!

http://guides.bpl.org/GayRomance"

Well done!

[Jordan]

Thanks guys!

I wish I could say every book is a good one, but I haven't read most of them myself, though that was my initial idea. But I couldn't order all the books I've read, so had to compromise.

[Josh]

Antonella wrote: "I've noticed that when the blurb of a book I don't know already about mentions the adjective «hot», I'll ignore the book. With «scorching» I don't even bother to finish reading the blurb ;-)."

LOL

[Josh]

Antonella wrote: " by Ginn Hale is out in October, pre-order here:
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Past-Other......"

Oh yes! :-)

[Josh]

Johanna wrote: "KC wrote: "I read Joanna Chambers and Annika Martin's prequel Enemies with Benefits to the novella they have coming up on the 15th. It was awesome! so i can't wait for the MCs adventures."

Cool. I..."

I enjoyed it very much!

[Josh]

hough I think there's a chapter near the end that specifically says writers should stay far away from mystery and romance genres,

..."

LOL. What's the logic behind that?

[Josh]

Mymymble wrote: "OMG. I watch in awe Jordan's work as a librarian. Never more than now.
I wanted to read The Low Road
James Lear's e-books all cost £9.99. And I'm not sure his books are read and rea..."

Good Lord!!

[Josh]

Sabine wrote: "Jordan, thank you for sharing your work! So well done! I have looked immediately through all your categories."

I know. She's really the classic librarian. Beneath the quiet exterior beats the heart of a superhero. :-)

[Josh]

I've basically read nothing but non-fiction for the last two months. I'm really looking forward to starting