Maya Rodale’s A Groom of One’s Own is set to drop on June 29. I’ve the ARC for months and just recently got around to reading it. It’s a charming time pass about Miss Sophie Harlow, a “Writing Girl” for the London Weekly. Fresh off her own jilting at the altar, she moves to London… Read More A Groom of One’s Own, by Maya Rodale

One of 2009’s freshest voices, Tessa Dare, is back with another trilogy this summer, The Stud Club (you must check out the book trailer; it’s hilarious). The first book, One Dance with a Duke, was released on May 25, with Twice Tempted by a Rogue and Three Nights with a Scoundrel to follow on June… Read More One Dance With a Duke, by Tessa Dare

I recently finished Meredith Duran’s April 27 release, Wicked Becomes You. After three stellar novels (The Duke of Shadows, Bound By Your Touch and Written On Your Skin), Duran went on my insta-buy list, and I think that’s often a precarious position to put an author in…because you build your expectations up. You get the… Read More Awesomeness Becomes You

Anyone who lives in New York City knows that traveling from one borough another can be a Thing. Sure, we haul ourselves into Manhattan for work, for social events, etc., but going from Queens to Brooklyn or vice versa is a bit of an undertaking. I’m starting to really get out more, which is really… Read More New anthology, Indivisible, stands apart

Apparently it’s time for another edition of Authors Behaving Badly, this time starring romance author (only, don’t call her that, because she does not want to be shelved in the romance section) Diana Gabaldon. Gabaldon, writer of the epic Outlander series, publicly clutched her pearls about fan fiction. And even before I clicked the link that was circulating all… Read More Outlander, we have your woman!

You know, there’s nothing quite like finishing a completely satisfying story arc. I closed The Reckoning this morning with a sense of fullness, as though author Kelley Armstrong cooked up a really good meal and served it to her readers. The third book in her Darkest Powers universe — though not the last — The Reckoning… Read More The Reckoning, by Kelley Armstrong