Thursday Give Away
For today’s Thursday Give Away, we have Lori Wilde’s The Welcome Home Garden Club, the latest in her contemporary romance series set in Twilight Texas. Here’s the official blurb: Traditional meaning of Pink and White Roses: I love you still and always will. Caitlyn Marsh stopped believing in happily-ever-after when high-school sweetheart, Gideon Garza, left…
Read MoreApologies!
I’ve been working around the clock on revisions for The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, aka Pink X, which is why there was no Teaser Tuesday yesterday. In case you haven’t seen it yet, you can find an excerpt from The Passion of the Purple Plumeria here. Can we pretend that counts as a belated…
Read MoreGive the Gift of Turnip
That’s Turnip singular (and very singular he is, too!), not a sack of turnips. It has come to my attention that both editions of The Mischief of the Mistletoe, hardcover and trade paperback, are currently on sale at Amazon. If anyone would like a signed bookplate to paste into a gift copy of Mistletoe, just…
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Having grown up with PBS’s Mystery on Sunday nights, one of my particular pleasures is the British mystery. I’m not talking any of the more recent offshoots of the genre, the historical mystery, and so forth, but the standard, bread and butter fare: the Detective Chief Inspector or dedicated amateur who goes around solving a…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
And the winner of the copy of Eloisa James’s A Kiss at Midnight is… Julie K, of Comment #25! Julie, if you’ll email me with your snail mail details, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. In the meantime, stay tuned for another give away (book TBA) here this coming Thursday!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday! As we recover from yesterday’s excesses, here’s this week’s reading in review: As I may have mentioned a while back, I let myself be talked into judging a contest that shall remain nameless in a category that shall also remain nameless, so this week was largely about bludgeoning through large stacks of contest…
Read MoreThanksgiving Give Away!
Happy Thanksgiving! By popular demand, here’s another Thursday give away, to while away those hours of post-turkey coma. Our special Thanksgiving Thursday give away is the first in Eloisa James’s fairy tale series, A Kiss at Midnight. Here’s the official blurb: Miss Kate Daltry doesn’t believe in fairy tales . . .or happily ever after.…
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I was chatting with a friend the other day about popular history books that read like novels. They haven’t quite reached the “add dialogue and stir” stage (i.e. Jean Plaidy), but they’re way too much fun to be assigned in history classes. If you like biographies and history books that read like novels, you’ll probably…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
And the winner of the signed copy of The Cocoa Conspiracy is… Leslie! (Of Comment #10.) Leslie, if you’ll email me with your snail mail info, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. Thanks so much to everyone who participated. My mouth was watering just reading about all those desserts. In the meantime,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
To make up for last week’s reading slump, this week has been a book bonanza, in multiple genres. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Juliana Gray, A Gentleman Never Tells. This is the second in a series based on Love’s Labor’s Lost, set in the late nineteenth century in a villa in Tuscany.…
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