A couple more updated websites
October 13, 2006
Love Jo Goodman's new format.
Madeline Hunter's site looks like it is still a work in progress.
As is Meljean Brook's site.
Have you seen any new or updated author sites? Have you updated or changed your site recently?
What do you most want to see on an author's website? I WANT what is next. I don't care if it is a year away... just have something up. As for extra's I love tidbits about the books and how the author came about the story. Goodman's site is grand for this as is Elizabeth Boyle.
recently mentioned site recap:
Jennifer Ashley aka Allyson James
How To Abduct a Highland Lord by Karen Hawkins
October 13, 2006
This is so 'update your website month' in romanceland. Karen Hawkins has a new look at her site. The whole thing has a look funny author feel to it. Think this ties into "branding". I have never really thought of Hawkins as the funny girl romance writer. Maybe that was what I missed...
I really like the new cover for her next book but it really doesn't scream historical to me. Maybe that is just me...
How To Abduct a Highland Lord by Karen Hawkins
Release: January 30th, 2007
CAN SHE?
Shy, quiet Regency miss, Fiona MacLean, must save her brothers from becoming embroiled in a centuries old feud that could mean the death of them all. All she has to do is commit one, teeny, tiny, barely noticeable . . . crime.
WILL HE?
Sinfully handsome Black Jack Kincaid has spent his entire life philandering with other men's willing wives, trying to forget beautiful, wilful Fiona MacLean, so he's shocked when he awakens one day and discovers himself married to that very lass! Will he help her save her brothers and end a centuries old family feud? Can he accept being married to the woman who broke his heart so many years ago? And now that he has her, can he afford to let her go?
Look for To Scotland, With Love in August 2007 and To Catch a Highlander in January 29, 2008.
You gonna write a letter?
October 13, 2006
I am guessing this is a cause now because the election is near. Or someone has a new book coming out? Since it hit newswires over two months ago.
There were too many responses to read on AAR and I don't feel like googling... but does anyone know if it has been brought up that Combs isn't (wasn't?) really embracing her romance past?
Don't get me wrong, I still think head's an ass (hee) but Combs didn't seem like the stand up proud romance novelist. I still think Mike is the man to vote for... well until I google him and find something about him I don't like.
hee
Ebuzz: Good Deal for ebook reader peeps
October 13, 2006
Dance of the Gods
by Nora Roberts
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eBook Description: Second in a new trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. As the Circle of Six prepares for its final clash with the dark army of the vampire Lilith, the battleground shifts. In Ireland, a stone circle serves as the portal to another land and an ancient time. It is in Geall that all will meet their fate-the sorcerer, the witch, the warrior, the scholar, the one of many forms, and the one who was lost. And as their courage is tested, hearts will bond as never
Love in a Bottle by Zoe Archer **new blurb and a excerpt**
October 11, 2006
Another website update... great month for readers!
Love in a Bottle by Zoe Archer
Release Date: November 28, 2006
from site:
Sophie Andrews: She'd rather be in the fields with her hands deep in the earth, studying plants, than playing the coquette in the drawing room. A chance encounter with a rakish peddler has this unconventional spirit learning that she may be a lady in a man's world, but she's still a woman.
Ian Blackpool: With his charming, roguish smile, he can sell you bottles of potion guaranteeing love. But he might not buy it himself. This mountebank's search for the secret of love has taken him all over the world, but one beautiful English botanist may hold the answer he's been pursuing.
Dark Dan McGannon: The name says it all. The most ruthless kidnapper on the British Isles.
excerpt I might even give in and read...
So do you want to read it anymore than you did after reading the first blurb?
Victim of this, victim of that
October 10, 2006
Oddly enough Sandy doesn't agree with me. Shocking I know...
There's No Sex in Your Violence
Don't Go In There
Oh Grow Up
Just a note... I like like lawyers! Really!
I turn on the tube and what do I see
A whole lotta people cryin' 'Don't blame me'
They point their crooked little fingers ar everybody else
Spend all their time feelin' sorry for themselves
Victim of this, victim of that
Your momma's too thin; your daddy's too fat
Get over it
Get over it
All this whinin' and cryin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it
You say you haven't been the same since you had your little crash
But you might feel better if I gave you some cash
The more I think about it, Old Billy was right
Let's kill all the lawyers, kill 'em tonight
You don't want to work, you want to live like a king
But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing
Get over it
Get over it
If you don't want to play, then you might as well split
Get over it, Get over it
It's like going to confession every time I hear you speak
You're makin' the most of your losin' streak
Some call it sick, but I call it weak
You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass
Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin' and moanin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it
Get over it
Get over it
It's gotta stop sometime, so why don't you quit
Get over it, get over it
There’s No Sex in Your Violence
October 9, 2006
The new at the back fence Don't Go In There is up. It talks about violence rating. You know those people who want other people to protect grown ups from scary things that go bump in the night or upset them.
Of course who can say what will upset them. 'Them' would be a ton of different people wouldn't it... I need to go back and reread it because I am not sure how her opening paragraph wouldn't fit sensuality ratings as well.
Thinking on that... how do you feel about sensuality ratings? Do you use them? Should reviewers use them? Should they matter?
Are you pro violence ratings? It seems we would get to the point to where we are rating everything. And that seems wrong. I blogged about this a little in August, Oh Grow Up. LOL and am sure I will blog about it again *g*.
oh in case you are wondering... the title comes from the song Everything Zen by Bush on the cd Sixteen Stone
For the Love of a Pirate by Edith Layton
October 9, 2006
I have been looking for a summary for this book for a while now. And now that I found it... it is soooooooooo not what I thought it would be.
What cha think? Nice of Avon to be consistent in giving us bad covers...
For the Love of a Pirate by Edith Layton December 2006
He's searching for a proper bride . . .
Constantine, Lord Wylde, is a gentleman beyond reproach. Now it's time for him to find a suitable gentlewoman to wed-;a well-bred, well-behaved lady, as proper as . . . well, Constantine himself. But his plans are shattered when a fierce, aging pirate invades his home with shocking news: Constantine is already engaged . . . to the brigand's lovely granddaughter, Lisabeth!
But finds a perfect passion instead
Wildly independent Lisabeth, however, has no desire for marriage-;certainly not to a straightlaced nobleman bound to her by some long-ago promise . . . even if she's tantalized by his manly form and the sensuality he can't quite disguise. Though shocked by the lady's improprieties, Constantine soon finds himself acting as lustily as any outlaw.
But how does a staid gentleman win the heart of a bewitching pirate?
random blog stuff
October 9, 2006