Wendy the Super Librarian‘s review of The Perfect Concubine by Michelle Styles Historical Romance short story ebook published by Harlequin Historical Undone 01 Feb 11 Of late, my quality of reading material has been more than a little lacking.  One lackluster story after another is leaving me twitching for something entertaining, and non-frustrating, to read. [...]

by Michelle Styles The end of September and beginning of October has been taken up with doing workshops for the National Year of Reading, writing and helping my eldest navigate the shoals of applying to universities. Why oh why was it so much easier when I was a student? And why did I think going [...]

by Michelle Styles Actually this was written a little while ago, but things became crazy. Do not ask. I am in currently doing massive revisions and am reminded of the Maxine cartoon where she asks if there is a vaccine for stupidity. Eventually, it will be a good book. So massive apologies. [Ed. Note: No [...]

Michelle Styles shares some interesting tidbits of information floating around. Note the awesome sale, and a new writing contest!

by Michelle Styles July is a time for summer beach reads or just taking advantage of the hot summer sun and reading. Or at least I am hoping that July will see lots of sun. Last year was a washout in the UK, and this year is not much better. I have taken to counting [...]

By Michelle Styles Some writers just write about one time period – whether it is the Regency, the American west or even in the case of contemporary writers – the eternal present. Some readers are eternally faithful to their chosen period. They will not read anything outside of that period, or even sometimes that setting. [...]

I am running late today and thought I had done this. Sorry! Today we will have a guest post by our own Harlequin Insider Michelle Styles (so she is used to me running late ). If you haven’t already, go read Lawson’s review on Taken by the Viking. There are a couple of things in [...]

Lawson’s review of Taken by the Viking by Michelle Styles Historical romance released by Harlequin Historical 1 May 08 I have to admit that I’ve never actually read a Harlequin Historical. For whatever reason I’ve just never picked one up. Even when Sybil threw one at me. I was rather excited that this month’s feature [...]

by Michelle Styles Lots of things always seem to be happening in June. I was a June bride 20 years ago, and this is why I never forget that the anniversary of Waterloo is 18 June. Lots of jokes about meeting Waterloos and it being a close run thing punctuated the speeches. And my advice [...]

2008 is the National Year of Reading in the UK. It is about celebrating reading in all its forms and highlighting the importance of libraries. It is about encouraging parents to read to their children, and people in general just to read.

UPDATE: as Michelle Style’s reports looks like The Dark Viscount by Deborah Simmons is already up at amazon… (no cover yet) but WOOT! CAN’T wait! Comes out in October 1, 2008. first posted May 21, 2006 Deborah Simmons is an author I picked up because of All About Romance. They have some great reviews and [...]

April showers bring May flowers, or at least that is what I am hoping, as it has been very rainy here in the UK throughout April. May also brings lots of Harlequin news and great books to read.

Ok I am going to work toward getting all the nifty prizes logged today and we will start giving them out. Some of them will go to random comment in a post with these icons. WHAT icons?

How Flashdance… LOL 

Look what Michelle gave us! An excerpt!! Excerpt of Taken by the Viking by Michelle Styles, coming 1 May!! Historical romance released by Harlequin 1 May 2008