One of my favorite blogs, Read React Review, has an interesting debate going today about respect and legitimacy for the Romance genre.

I recently finished Eileen Wilks' Blood Challenge, which is the current (7th) book in her Lupi series. I recommend Wilks a lot for those who like urban fantasy. The series follows Lily Yu, a former cop and now FBI agent, and her lupus (essentially, werewolf) lover Rule. To keep the romance fresh, they face new problems with each book, and ( Read more... )

Megan Chance is going to make her backlist available electronically.

Fall From Grace isn't available yet, but A Candle in the Dark is.

I've had Sweeter than Wine by Michaela August (the team of Karin Welss and Marian Gibbons) on my wishlist for a really, really long time, but didn't actually buy it until I got a Kindle; the Kindle price is much cheaper than the paperback. See, it's set in 1919, just between the First World War and Prohibition, and involves an Alsatian guy who ( Read more... )

Here's another review of The Duke & The Pirate Queen - the reviewer really liked Maxime, but thought Imena was too manly for a romance heroine and wanted it to be more romantic overall. It's got some good data if you're wondering, like me, what differentiates romance from erotica for some readers. (I was attempting erotica that was closer to ( Read more... )

I am wearing my new sweater today. It is cabled wool, so warm for the body, and a dark-fuchsia color, so warm for the eye. I am wearing it with a pale pink shirt and brown pinstripe trousers and ankle boots.

This is all in an effort to perk myself up. I stayed up too late last night finishing the new Marjorie Liu novel, In the Dark of Dreams. ( Read more... )

This post's purpose is to collect my common tags in one place, so readers (and I!) can easily access entries on several subjects.

Cecilia Tan's first two novels for e-publisher Ravenous Romance have come out in paperback, and I read them over the last week or so.

Mind Games was good, light fun. I always enjoy telepathy stories; in this one, the heroine's ability was vastly magnified when she was sexually aroused, and she uses her ability to find her missing sister. The ( Read more... )

Anne Stuart hasn't written historical romance in a long while, but I really enjoyed her recent over-the-top suspense novels (will he murder her or fall in love? or fall in love while knowing he has to murder her?), so I was all over this one, first in a trilogy set during the Georgian period ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot because I haven't started writing the new novel yet. I'm trying to give myself a little space to let go of the unfinished one for now.

Yesterday, I finished Sean Kennedy's Tigers and Devils, which was a gay romance with a lot of miscellaneous bits about Australian football that made me want to know more about Australian ( Read more... )