Featured New Book: Breathe You In by Lily Harlem
I first came across Lily Harlem’s name because she’s written a Rock Fiction trilogy (Mattress Music, Mirror Music, Menage a Music). I haven’t read them yet, but hope to. However, SHE came across ME...
View ArticleRockin’ Rollin’ Readin’
Still on hiatus from the fancy book review people, so I’ve been reading and reading the stuff that’s piled up over here. It feels good to make even a small dent in the TBR mountain ranges. So check out...
View ArticleFeatured New Book: Behind Blue Eyes, Part Three: Let My Love Open the Door by...
Rock fiction alert! Rock Fiction alert!!! Why Anne-Marie and I haven’t hooked up sooner is beyond me. I think we’ve tried and it’s been me who’s dropped the ball. It’s not for lack of intent, but for...
View ArticleFeatured New Book: Storm Clouds by M. E. Sutton
I know cool people. It really IS that simple. I know cool people. Lots of them. And M. E. Sutton is one of them. Best of all, I know her in real life, too. She’s one of my more favorite real-life...
View ArticleRock On and read some Rock Fiction
I have been reading a lot lately, so much so that I ought to turn some of these Rock Fiction explorations into Readalongs. The truth is that I’ve been devouring a lot of these books. While Denise...
View ArticleSusan’s Book Talk: Icky Book Club Book
The ladies in my book club, who I adore almost unconditionally, encouraged the group to read a particular book. It’s a fictionalized account of an author and his first wife, and that’s hopefully the...
View ArticleFeatured New Book: The Object of his Desire By PJ Adams
And we’re back! (Did we actually take a week off? Feels like we did.) As always, I’m trying to spread my net wide and far, and so I reach out to authors when I can. Today’s author is one person I...
View ArticleIt’s that Time of Year Again!
Yep, it’s one of my favorite months of the year: The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale! Why Summer/winter? Because e-book readers live all over the planet, and on half the planet right now, it’s winter....
View ArticleFeatured New Book: Mocha, Midnight, and Murder by MaryAnn Kempher
Sometimes, you guys find me and I never find out how. I see this all the time on the editing side, but I’m even more thrilled when you guys spread the Featured New Book word and new authors find me....
View ArticleFeatured New Book: Collateral Damage by Frederick Brooke
It looks like word of the Featured New Book spotlight is spreading. I’ve got a bunch of posts to bring you guys — keep it up! I love the deluge. Today’s author is Frederick Brooke, who I’d never met...
View ArticleFeatured New Book: Carnival Rust by Marat M’saev Daan
The best part of this socially connected world of ours is that we get to meet neat people without ever getting out of our pajamas — and there’s no innuendo or impropriety about it. Okay, maybe it’s...
View ArticleFeatured New Book…
Yep, another week with no Featured New Book. This is something I’d like to see continue and grow, not wither and die, because I’d like to build on the Featured New Book for some of the changes I’d like...
View ArticleFeatured New Book: The Rest is Up to You by Matt Schroeder
We’re back after a short hiatus… this feature is all about you guys, and your desire to participate, remember. Keep on spreading the word… I love meeting new folk. Like Matt Schroeder. He came to me …...
View ArticleFeatured New Book: Lady Gwendolyn by Magnolia Belle
This is one of those rarities for me… a book I edited that I can tell you I edited — some folk like to keep their editors close by, fearing being told they will have to wait weeks or months for an...
View ArticleFeatured New Book: Syrah by Nessa L. Warin
One of the best things about this here Internet is the way it brings us together. Take today’s feature author, for instance. I met Nessa on a booklovers’ forum, and she is one of the few people who...
View ArticleFeatured New Book: Cold Revenge by Jaleta Clegg
Jaleta Clegg is another of my long-time friends. In fact, if you missed it, I hosted her a little over a year ago, when she had another new release. This might even be the same series… In fact, it is!...
View ArticleFeatured New Book: Louder than Love by Jessica Topper
The best part of running the Featured New Book spotlight is learning new things about casual acquaintances. Jessica Topper is one such lady — she dropped into my inbox with the news that she’d been...
View ArticleIf Rocktober Stays…
Not all Rock Fiction lights me up like a good concert does. Gayle Forman’s If I Stay was one of those that falls short of the mark. I read it awhile ago, and now that I’ve had some time to think, I...
View ArticleWhy’s there a Rock in my Heart?
It’s Rocktober, so that can only mean that the ROCK refers to rock fiction, not geologic features (a question I get asked more often than I’d like to admit). And today, it also refers to Tommie Vaughn,...
View ArticleRock Fiction Readalong Wrapup
Well, just in time for the end of Rocktober, I finished Jessica Topper’s Louder Than Love. Have you? What are your thoughts on it? You can read mine here, but here’s a preview: A West of Mars...
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