Two books arrived over the weekend. I want to read them but am concentrating on writing instead. One is CRASH INTO ME by my friend Jill Sorenson. Jill and I live near each other and both belong to the San Diego RWA chapter. When the ARC of her upcoming single title [...]

I ventured into bookstores again this weekend. Yes, the point was to stare at…I mean, sign stock of YOUR MOUTH DRIVES ME CRAZY. But, I managed to check out other books while there. One book caught my eye - WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITCHES by Lee Nichols. I’d never heard of it. [...]

Somehow I’ve fallen behind in my book buying. I hate that. There’s a whole list of books I want to buy…and stack on my TBR pile. The reading will need to wait. Yeah, for some reason the act of purchasing gives me joy.
My lack of book buying hit home while paging [...]

Last year I started reading a few new authors who were starting paranormal/urban fantasy series. The most obvious is JR Ward. I read her, continue to and will into the future. But, there are others. I thought this might be a good time to highlight one or two…okay, three.
Kerrelyn Sparks’ series [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Meryl Sawyer is one of those authors. She’s a bestseller. Writes romantic suspense, which I love. Her books are everywhere. Yet, despite all that, I haven’t read her. Until now…
Her newest, Kiss of Death, is on my TBR pile. The blurb for this one sounds kind of standard. It [...]

I have commented before that parnormal romance is not my favorite thing. Having said that, since every other romance seems to be of the paranormal variety, I ended up reading a heap of them in 2006. Liked far more of them than I expected. There are even more sitting on my TBR [...]

This one is a testament to the power of Romantic Times. I’ve seen numerous books by author Kimberla Lawson Roby. Kept saying, “gee, I should pick one of hers up.” Never did. Then I saw this article in RT about her newest book, Love & Lies. Here’s the part of [...]

While performing one of my usual bookstore scans, I stumbled across a book called Bride and Doom by Deborah Donnelly. This was one of those titles that just jumped off the shelves and tapped me on the shoulder. The inside cover sets out Donnelly’s other books, all with equally compelling titles: You [...]