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Guest Post: Romantic Comedies Ooze Love and Laughter by Victoria Connelly

March 30, 2012

Yesterday, I reviewed Victoria Connelly’s third book in the Austen Addicts series, Mr. Darcy Forever, which is a more serious look at the bonds of sisters among Janeites.  Sarah and Mia Castle are friends and sisters and while friends shouldn’t like the same man, it is even worse when the same sisters like him. Like [...]

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Guest Post: Writing Innovation by Joanne DeMaio & Giveaway

March 28, 2012

Don’t you just want to dive into that latte right now?  I just adore this cover, it makes my mouth water.  Whole Latte Life by Joanne DeMaio is a novel that is set in Manhattan and New England, two settings I have a hard time staying away from in books.  But in this novel, there [...]

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Guest Post: America’s March of Fiscal Folly by Stephen Grimble

March 26, 2012

As the primary elections are coming to a close and the November presidential election looms large on the political landscape, many Americans are weighing the pros and ultimately more cons associated with each candidate.  Many of us decried the bailouts of the Wall Street banks without so much as an offer of help for foreclosed [...]

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Guest Post: Jack Caldwell Talks About Writing

March 14, 2012

Yesterday, I reviewed The Three Colonels:  Jane Austen’s Fighting Men by Jack Caldwell, which is set just after Napoleon is exiled to Elba and combines characters from Pride & Prejudice with those from Sense & Sensibility, along with some new characters.  From romance to intrigue and war, Caldwell combines the best of Austen’s social commentary [...]

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Guest Post: Researching a Story by Ken Brosky

February 28, 2012

Ken Brosky’s book, The Unauthorized Biography of Michele Bachmann and Other Stories, is a collection of stories about survival whether it is a white man lost in Darfur or an Iraq war veteran with one leg.  The collection has a certain wit about it and the writing is expected to make readers think about survival [...]

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Guest Post: M.J. Rose’s Inspiration for The Book of Lost Fragrances

February 22, 2012

The Book of Lost Fragrances by M.J. Rose (my review) is a suspenseful mystery that takes readers through time from Egypt to present day New York City and Paris.  As with her other books in the series, Malachai Samuels is seeking memory tools to aid in his reincarnation work, but there is more at risk [...]

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Guest Post: Plot Hinge: Where Fact Shapes Fiction by Josh Martin

February 17, 2012

Today, I’ve got a guest post form Josh Martin about Plot Hinge, a website community dedicated to the serialized novel, especially those shaped by the real world.  The site offers a brief history of the serialized novel, and offers some bonus content, including an alternate chapter by Emily St. John Mandel (I reviewed her novel [...]

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Guest Post & Giveaway: The Lovesick Author by Spencer Seidel

February 14, 2012

Valentine’s Day is the time to celebrate your loved ones whether they are spouses, significant others, boyfriends, girlfriends, etc.  But there is a darker side to love that creeps into novels like Lovesick by Spencer Seidel. In the novel, forensic psychologist Dr. Lisa Boyers receives a call from an old friend Attorney Rudy Swaner who [...]

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Guest Post: The Heart of the Writing Space by Sheryl Steines

February 8, 2012

Sheryl Steines, author of The Day of First Sun, is stopping by the blog today to talk about her writing space and how the heart of her home became to best place for her to complete a novel that has vampires, zombies, and magical wizards. Her novel (according to the Amazon synopsis): In this Young [...]

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Guest Post: A Tiger Mom’s Writing Spaces by Nina Benneton, author of Compulsively Mr. Darcy

February 3, 2012

Compulsively Mr. Darcy by Nina Benneton was released on Feb. 1 from Sourcebooks Landmark. In this modern re-telling, Dr. Elizabeth Bennet tries to overcome her own intimacy issues, while Mr. Darcy is looking for a woman to love him and all his obsessive compulsive tendencies. Through a serious of complications and misperceptions, Benneton weaves a [...]

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Guest Interview: Rock Band Glossary’s Joey Knieser Gets Literary by Vicki Keire

January 20, 2012

While I often talk a lot about books, poetry, writing, and author and publishing events, I rarely talk about music here, even though it is one of my passions.  I could go on and on about the reasons I love certain bands and certain genres of music, and why I dislike other bands and other [...]

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Guest Post: A Workspace and Inspiration by Jeanette Baker

January 18, 2012

Irish Lady by Jeanette Baker is about Meghann McCarthy who had left Belfast behind until Michael Devlin re-emerges and needs her help.  He’s charged with murder, but as she attempts to uncover the truth, a history reveals itself through a series of linked histories back to the time of Queen Elizabeth.  This is an emotionally [...]

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