Review: A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole

Shannon C.’s review of A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, Book 1) by Kresley Cole
Paranormal romance released by Pocket Star 28 Mar 06

There are some authors who, just for existing, earn my slavering fangirly devotion. With the first book in her Immortals After Dark series, Kresley Cole has cemented herself as one of them. I love an author who can make me appreciate tired romance cliches and write a subversive, feminist romance novel as well.

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Tags: 2006, A Hunger Like No Other, Grade A, Immortals After Dark series, Kresley Cole, Paranormal, Pocket Books, Review, romance, ShannonC

Throw your hands up

Gwen is thinking CRAZY crazy things…. and saying things like keep 2 years of our amazingness active and permanently archiving the rest? Or some such crazy talk… it started with me saying Gwen find this post (which oddly didn’t exist… go figure)… so what do you think of this crazy gwen-like talk of ditching old posts?

Or just sit back and keep on rollin baby… you know what time it is….

Ttttttttaaaaarrrrrraaaaaaaa make me stop

bizkit limp

music song lyrics

keep rollin, rollin, rollin, rollin WHAT lol karen I like this song more than the Wheels on the bus one…

Tags: 2006, music, pondering on gwen's ponderings

Review: Five eBook “Lightning Reviews”

These are reviews of five short, erotic titles from various publishers, in various flavors. They are a bit too short to review on their own without the review being almost as long as the story, so I have put together five “Lightning Reviews.” 

Read on if you’re wearing rubber soled shoes…

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Tags: 2005, 2006, 2008, Come Sweet Creature, Contemporary, Donelle Carroll, eBook, Erotic, Grade B, Grade D, Grade F, Her Wicked Warrior, LooseID, March 2006, Melissa Schroeder, Mr. Fix-It, Nikki, October 2006, Rachel Carrington, Review, The Good Lawyer, The Seduction of Sean Nolan, Tilly Greene, Timetravel, Treva Harte, Whiskey Creek Press, Whispers Publishing, Wild Rose Press

You Give Love a Bad Name

I am on very few yahoo groups. I think there are six: three author lists, two historical reader lists and a trade group. Oh and there is the brotherhood list but it is no mail because there is no way in hell I could keep up with it, but I do go check it out once in a blue moon.

The rest are author only, newsletter or update type lists. LOVE those… really every author should have one. Even if you don’t pay for a professional newsletter or have the puter skills to do one, a simple text post is grand. And if you don’t have a website, this lil reader thinks this is a must. Linda Howard I am looking at you! LOL not that you see it but it is the thought that counts *g*.

So I am not ‘up’ on the common rules of these things, at least in romanceland.

But if out of a 25 post digest, there are seven posts from you and your significant other talking about your lust and/or love for one another in addition to another six posts from other members talking about your lust and/or love for one another, you need to shut up about it.

Or is it just me that finds that crap annoying, boring and stupid. If you need an audience to talk to the lurve of your life, I think one or all of three things.

A. you are a sock and playing both the love and the lovee
B. things aren’t really all that at home
C. you are both attention whores

GET. A. ROOM. Crazy thing… but people might be looking for book info, excerpts and things to do with the writing. I know I should just unsub and now recall why I generally delete the digest without even opening them.

This is prolly common on old lists where people are friends and have known members forever and ever. But yahoo groups are free! Go create one just for your group or something. Or make the personal chatty posts but don’t carry it… and on… and on… where it hits over four digests (that is over 100 posts at 25 a digest).

Am I just being a bitch and not understanding the ‘fun’. The group’s description does list ‘everything under the sun’ as allowable posts. But long ass conversations about your lurve seem above and beyond. And the list isn’t a fan list or a discussion list but THE AUTHOR list. As this is not the first time I have seen this type of thing on list I am changing my membership to Special Notices - Receive only important email notices from the group moderator. And will just visit via web when I want to look for info. LOL after all that my question is:

Is this is common and acceptable on many author lists?

And for the love of god, cut the text in the posts when you are replying. Really I think that is what pushed me over the edge, not the 15 out of 25 posts in the last four digests but the one to two sentence replies on top of 10 other replies for one post.

In case you don’t know this… that makes scrolling through the digest a pain and even with the cool new set up yahoo is using for digest form it makes understanding where posts end and a new one begin difficult. If it causes the digest to be long enough, gmail doesn’t display the whole thing. So you have to click a link and wait for it to load to read the full digest. I hate to think how long this takes for people with dial up.

So please try to trim your posts when you reply and leave only what you are replying too! LOL sez I.

Tags: 2006, socks, Stupid Author Tricks, Sybil

Devon’s EBUZZ: Tales of the Shareem: Rio by Allyson James

***NOTE Book Three in the Tales of the Shareem

You can find Allyson James (aka jennifer ashley) website here and her blog here

     Rio. A Level Three Shareem complete with black leather, handcuffs and a whip.

     Genetically programmed to provide every woman’s wildest fantasy, Rio is the ultimate Dom. His bad-boy smile and Shareem-blue eyes can make the most frigid woman fall to her knees and beg him to be gentle.

     But not too gentle.

     Nella, Princess of Ariel, has never heard of Shareem. She sees Rio only as the man who rescues her from assassination and who hides her until she can get back to her family. A friend.

     But Rio can’t fight his programming, and before long he’s taking the sexy princess aside to give her some very interesting lessons in trust… never dreaming she’s giving him lessons in love.

Devon can be found at Is that a stake in your pocket? [now with comments ;)]

Devon’s ebuzz

Not bad, a fun read. This is one of those total female fantasies that I find really fun about Romantica.

The series takes place in a Sci-Fi, futuristic world where scientists have genetically engineered a breed of super-hot males who exist merely to pleasure women.

Yup.

But the lab’s been shut down, and the species (the Shareem) have been outlawed and sent underground. There are different types of Shareem, with different specialties. This installment focuses on Rio, who is a Level 3–a Dominant, who’s great with the cuffs and a whip. (Remember though, that he is meant to be used by women, so its only ever an illusion of dominance.)

Rio finds and saves Nella, and brings her back to the compound where he lives with his maker and some friends. Let the sex begin!

There’s somewhat of a plot, but really this is about learning about the Shareem, hot sex between Nella and Rio, and if they will find a happily ever after. Can Nella love Rio, or will she only see him as a sex object?

Like I said, this was a fun way to spend a couple of hours. I didn’t exactly buy the love story, it was of the insta-lust variety, but the sex scenes were good. The sex was very explicit, and featured a variety of activities (big variety), including some BDSM, but I would characterize it as light (but be aware). The book overall had a playful, light tone, and an…interesting setting. I’d check out another one of these.

Excerpt HERE and you can purchase here… Thanks Devon!!!

Tags: 2006, Allyson James, Devon, eBook, Ellora's Cave, May 2006, Review, Rio, Tales of the Shareem

Who knew…

PC Cast should have sent her email to the Avon Board not Smart Bitches.

Tags: 2006, Sybil

hopping along the blogway and blog update stuff

a bit of blog hopping

Wendy has a great interview up with Tess Gerritsen… go forth and read!
D. has up some new info on ‘His Mistress by Morning’
KarenS says what she wants about DDD Just Like a Dame
that minx reviews DiW
New To Me Blog

Some Guest Author info… and one hopeful want

Robin Schone will be doing a guest author day, which is way cool me think. More info as we cement details. Jo Goodman may join us, will let you know how that works out. And I am crossing my fingers that Linda Howard will come play, but that could end up being a dream. Nicole Jordan is hopefully a go but for the next new book. There are a few others in varies stages…

Author Week Update

Brava Bad Boy week
Jill Shalvis
Karen Kelley
Helenkay Dimon
Dianne Castell
are all set… and there are three other emails out waiting for firm commitmentsAlphrodisia
Viva Anna
Cece Stuart
Sasha White
Nikki Alton
Lucinda Betts
are a go… I am hoping I am not missing anyone… EEK let me know if you have signed on and I don’t have you listed!

Avon Red
Sylvia Day
Cathryn Fox
Toni Blake
Lynn LaFleur
Delilah Devlin
are set!

Samhain week (one of the most recent added so the least worked on so far)
Beth Williamson
Rene Lyons
are good to go with a few others in the works!

If you are an author of one of the above lines and wanna play, send me an email. If you are a reader, start thinking of nifty questions to ask them.

searching the blog

Oddly enough I generally have a reason for doing things… even if they seem odd. And there are some Keywords I have in front of the subject of some posts. The reason is if you are looking for all the ebuzz mini reviews you could search EBUZZ and have them all come up.Well that is the theory anyway. I don’t think it is working! So I may have to change out my search engine thingy. If you are curious here are (most I think) of the keywords I have been using…

EBUZZ
ebook blog review or ebook news
WANT
book I want but do not have, yet
CS
coming soon - meaning review and/or book is in the mail to me. Or it is a review I am set to do.
REVIEW
(full)review by me - yes hard to figure out that one…
Info
random book info I found interesting or thought someone else would find interesting

want list

I have had a want list in draft for FOREVER. I am thinking of adding my amazon wishlis to my side bar as a quicker way to hightlight upcoming books (I want) that might be new to you. Question is… would that display my address for everyone to see? Anyone know?

Epublisher Interviews

I am starting up the Epublisher interviews soon. Any questions readers want to know? I am already planning on asking:
If they think their website is user friendly and if not who are they going about fixing it.
What they feel they offer reader that is different or better than other Epubs.
What they think of Ecovers and what they think the future will bring.
Where they see epublishing going.
What new and or different lines or such they are bringing out.
What they are looking for in new submissions.
And for the newer start up… Why they joined the epub world.If you are an epublisher and I haven’t contacted you yet (I am not through sending out requests) and you are interested in playing… do email me.

I am also going to ask for them one other post, a sort of AVONish editor rec post. I don’t think Avon does it anymore, but back in the day, there was a page in the the book that the editor told about new books. I am not sure if this will work as epubs have many more new releases per month than a print pub. But I would love it if they did it. Sort of a highlight on the pub, from an editor/owner/press person/whoever gets subjected to me.

oh and one other thing… I will be sending out a short interview to bloggers. Like five questions or so. Feel free to play or not, no pressure. It isn’t really a reader interview a la maili cuz she kicks ass at it. And it isn’t really an author interview a la karens cuz she kicks ass at it.

But more of a blog thing… ie What made you create a blog? type thing… it will be short and sweet. I will post it shortly (hopefully this weekend) with my own answers.

Tags: 2006, Romancelandia

Another blog to add to the Group Thang: The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour.  As they say:

Welcome to our blog! We’re a group of paranormal authors who want to show you what happens at THE MIDNIGHT HOUR. We’ll be posting about lots of things: from writing, to books, to paranormal subjects… we’ll even have some “professional” paranormal experts like psychics. And you never know, a sexy vampire or werewolf might just drop by as well…..

Click the prose for more info…

THEY be: Lori Handeland (who has two books I want: CRESCENT MOON and Date’s From Hell and the other three Rock Creek books tbr), Kathy Love (who has The Night Before Christmas and the Fang books I want), Stephanie Rowe (who has a book I think Jay would want ), Linda Winstead Jones (a la Sullivan, Jed, and Cash, books 2,4, and 6 in the Rock Creek Six series that I spend forever look for and now have and must read) and Michelle Rowen. BAD thing is, it is white text on black background. Which makes it a bitch to figure out how to post and read. But that might be my color being fucked up on my computer. Found the blog from the fab Amy Garvey… you know the author who Alyssa still hasn’t shared her five copies of :(. yeah yeah yeah she SAYS she doesn’t have five copies but I am on to her tricks.

Tags: 2006, March 2006, Romanceland

more blog questions

1. Is it better to have a blog archive every week or month?

2. Any suggestions on my comment phrase? I am tired of book whores pimpin’. But can’t think of anything that amuses me… might do duckies quackin.

3. Can I delete pics off my computer after uploading to blogger? And it there a limit to how many I can upload? Like where the hell are these pics being saved? heeeee cuz I really really like..

4. I made this. If I can catch maili, jay or cw to help me put up my header pic and change the colors. IS there any reason I would rather use this blog than the one I currently use? And if there is, how much harder is wordpress than blogger?

5. Would it be easy to make it where my template lets me put info on the left and right of the blog post? Or would that take redoing the whole thing? Because I love my colors, font and pic - thank you maili ;).

Tags: 2006, February 2006, Sybil, TEH blog it hates me