The cover flats for YOUR MOUTH DRIVES ME CRAZY arrived on my doorstep at the end of last week. The cover truly is gorgeous, even more so in person. The actual one is a bit different from the original. In my view, it’s even prettier. The art department did a [...]

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I’m blogging over at Access Romance today. Stop by and say hello.

Lori Foster frequently donates items to benefit the Animal Adoption Foundation, her local no-kill animal shelter. This year, Lori, Erin McCarthy and I have an auction item you might be interested in. Yes, signed books are involved…
If you win, you get a copy of our anthology, WHEN GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD BOYS, [...]

Believe it or not, I have still more selections on my TBR pile. This one is from Christopher Moore. The book is You Suck, where Moore visits characters from his earlier book Bloodsucking Fiends. While I know there is a bit of vampire fatigure going on out there - and, truly, I feel [...]

I was reading an article in USA Today about moms in fiction. Actually, the title is Fiction: Motherhood. I have no idea why I was engaging in this reading activity, but I was.
A bunch of new titles are referenced. You can click on the article title (above) to go check [...]

Esquire did a little experiment. Even gave it a name - The Napkin Project. It went like this:
It’s an old story, we figured. Someone, in a bar somewhere, scribbling on a napkin in the failing afternoon light; the kind of story or list or note that might be crammed in a pocket and [...]

Wendy just gave me an ARC and cover flat for a book called All Jacked Up by Penny McCall. It’s a romantic suspense from Berkley Sensation. McCall also writes under the name Penny McCusker, her real name (I think), for Harlequin.
This one caught my eye not only for FBI hero, but also [...]

All good guesses. One of you picked the right name: Maria Duncan.* Congratulations!
The newest reviewer for Paperback Reader is Alison Kent. We’re so excited to have her join us. Her first review will post at the end of this week. Make sure you check it out.
*Maria - email [...]

Most of you who check in here know that I’m a co-founder and contributor to Paperback Reader, a romance review site. Well, we have a new reviewer coming on board. Her first review posts on Friday. We’ll officially introduce her at PBR on Wednesday.
So, for the next 24 hours you [...]

Quite some time ago a bunch of authors posted photos of their office spaces. There was even a website that collected them… I think. The memory came to mind while I was paging through a magazine over the weekend. There was an article on office cubicles of the future. Some of the [...]