Last week I talked about erotic romance, a subgenre I’m becoming more familiar with. A typical erotic romance has explicit language and frequent sex scenes between a loving, monogamous couple. Multiple partners and same-sex pairings are also common, however.

Although m/m/f (two men + female) isn’t my “thing,” I decided to try [...]

Every time Dear Author and Smart Bitches launch this campaign, I’m green with envy. I want to be saved! Save the sexy suspense!! Save the unknown author!!!
But I’m turning my frown upside down, because I love contemporary romance, and I’m so excited for Julie James. I met her at RWA San [...]

Erotic romance is sort of a new subgenre for me. Romantic suspense and Regency romance have been my favorites for years. Now that I write RS, and eat, sleep, dream it, etc., that genre is not what I reach for in my down time. I still like Regencies, but I’ve read hundreds of those. I’ve [...]

I won this book at Lurv a la Mode and LOVED it!! I’ve heard great things about Sarah Mayberry at Dear Author and on Twitter. This book did not disappoint. Sexy antics, wonderful characters, fast pace…and surprise angst! I cried, folks. More than once.

It’s official: I’ve been Mayberried.

My agent sent me a stack of books for Christmas (love that!), and the package included this 17th century historical/border romance by Mary Wine. I’d never heard of this author before, but the book looked hot and interesting. It was!

The title and the blurb are deceptive, IMO. Here’s my brief description: [...]

A list of memorable reads for 2009! Some of these titles were published previously, but most are recent releases.
1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
By far my favorite of the year. Maybe my favorite in the past five years. Awesome!
2. Blue Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas

3. Smooth Talking Stranger by [...]

Janine of Dear Author brought Alison Richardson’s Countess Trilogy to my attention, and I’m so glad she did! I liked the first in this series, loved the second, and was indifferent towards the third. My main complaints were that the first had a slapstick sex scene (doesn’t that sound odd?–it was) and the [...]

Now that I’ve finished the first draft of my manuscript (yay!!), I’m letting it rest for a few days so I can dive into the TBR stack. First up is Ava Gray (a.k.a. Ann Aguirre)’s Skin Game. I bought this one at the bookstore a few weeks ago, because I’m a big fan [...]

Just a quick note today to say congratulations to the RITA winners. I’m disappointed that Sherry Thomas didn’t win in either of her categories, but I’m so excited for Cindy Gerard!! Take No Prisoners took Best Romantic Suspense Novel.

I believe this is her first RITA win.

I picked up The Hunger Games at the library on impulse. It was on a featured YA shelf, right by the check out counter, and I’d been meaning to read it in a vague way. Jia of Dear Author gave it an A, and Stephen King himself wrote a B review for Entertainment [...]