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Dec
3
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Ask and You Might Receive – Marsha Moore

I’m lucky enough to be friends with Marsha Moore, author of the new travel book “24 Hours London” (Available from Amazon USA or in the UK). I love the concept of this book, because Marsha talks includes hidden gems that other guidebooks won’t tell you about. About the book: An around-the-clock guide from 5 a.m. fishing to midnight swimming. Fancy a hearty English breakfast with East...
Nov
28
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A Chat with Gary Murning

I met author Gary Murning on Twitter, and was so pleased when I first heard that his book If I Never was going to be published by Legend Press. Now that his book is out, I thought it would be a good time to pick his brain about his book, publishing, and his road to success. This is what he had to say: ————– I’ve always had a fairly positive attitude, to writing and life...
Oct
4
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Book Review: The Black Ice

Having read the first book in this series by Michael Connelly, I really wanted to like The Black Ice . But 5 chapters in and I’m looking for any excuse to find something else to do rather than finish the second book featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch. I think what’s getting me is the cliché of cop who knows the right thing to do, but the brass upstairs just won’t let him do his job....
Oct
1
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Mmm, Bacon

Editor Angela James tweeted about bacon bookmarks yesterday, and I also noticed this article in The Argus: A rasher of bacon was found in a returned book by a Worthing librarian. The lender had used an object usually found between two slices of bread rather than pages as a bookmark. This was just one of the oddities artist Dan Thompson, of Lanfranc Road, Worthing, has come across while collecting quirky...
Sep
25
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Books: Chemistry In Death

There are primarily two types of books I read: gory crime books and sci-fi/fantasy. I like my crime books full of forensic details and smart cops. The crazier the psychopath murderer, the better. So, yeah, Criminal Minds is my favourite TV show by far. I just finished reading Chemistry In Death by Simon Beckett. It’s about a forensic pathologist who loses his wife and daughter and out of dismay,...
Mar
31
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Review: Would-Be Witch

Have you ever read a book that made you want to have coffee with the author, just so you could gush like a fan-girl about how wonderful it was? Have you ever read a book that made you want to have coffee with the characters? I read this book over the weekend: Would-be Witch by Kimberly Frost I’m trying to think how to describe the experience. I want to get this right, because I want you to read this...
Mar
2
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Review: Ripping the Bodice

Ripping the Bodice is an erotic romance by Inara Lavey (It falls more heavily on the romance than the erotic, but that was fine with me… I like a book where the story is more important than the sex.) Got sex and romance on the brain? So does Cassandra Devon. She also has hard-boiled private eyes, dashing pirates, jet-setting super spies and other sexy rogues entertaining her in her surprisingly...
Feb
12
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Snow Day + 29 Free Books

I’m having a snow day today. Big, fat goosefeather flakes are falling and I’m feeling a need for coffee and a good book. So I’m giving myself permission for a day off. Even I can’t work 7 days a week! But I cannot neglect my dear friends, so I thought I’d share some free book goodness I discovered! Get Nine Free Books from Randomhouse through BooksOnBoard.com Nine...
Feb
9
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Review: Haunted Seduction

I picked up Haunted Seduction by Morgan James on the recommendation of a friend.  Wow, what a read.  Although this novel is erotica, the sex isn’t the driving force of the plot, but neither is it gratuitous. I’d say James got this just right, and that isn’t easy to do in erotica. A fame-seeking, jealous photographer gets trapped in a haunted amusement park.  It isn’t ghosts she...
Feb
4
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Free Writing Book

While clicking around to writerly blogs as I tend to do daily, I noticed that Donald Maas is giving away his 1996 book The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success in ebook format on his website.  I’d read his book Writing the Breakout Novel, so I was eager to see what this one had to offer.  (Besides, woohoo!  Free books!) It is full of good advice… I mean packed...
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