Don’t forget to enter the Cooking Up Romance Blogiversary Week Giveaway for a $50 Amazon Giftcard! Pretty much any romance involving a kinky bookseller is always going to get my vote. And if it’s by Charlotte Stein? Double vote! Can we vote twice? Whatever, I just did. Taken, a recent offering by Stein, features
There’s something about milestones that get people thinking. And thanking. There’s nothing inherently different this week than any other week, except that now I’ve been writing Cooking Up Romance for a full year as of May 10th. Oh, and I’m doing a giveaway this week to say thanks for reading! Scroll down for that. I
Just popping in today to say that my monthly joint review with Alexis Hall is up at All About Romance today. We rave over Rose Lerner’s Sweet Disorder and, as I mentioned in our review, I just couldn’t get over how much amazing food is in it. I’ve already used it as inspiration for three
I was looking for a comfort read the other day and for some inexplicable reason, this old category romance came to mind. I read it over and over for a few months, but I got over it and eventually got rid of it with the rest of my books from what I now refer to
Living in Secret is the third book of Jackie Ashenden’s Living In series. Typical of Ashenden, the emotional intensity is off-the-charts. But what I love about her books is that it isn’t ever just angst for angst’s sake. She’s not afraid to give her characters serious problems and genuine personality flaws. Her heroines aren’t just
Alexis Hall, Dabney Grinnan and I are at All About Romance today with a glowing review of Against the Dark by Carolyn Crane. I can’t believe it took me so long to read one of her books, particularly after last year’s RITA win. I already started the second one, but got sidetracked by other commitments.
Gwendolyn Wilder loved Bernard MacCullough from afar as a girl. But when the English raid his father’s Castle for harboring the Scottish pretender, the young would-be laird is killed. Or so she thought. And when a dragon comes to claim the ruined castle, the villagers send the only virgin left in Ballybliss to slake The
I love chatting on Twitter with Ana from Immersed in Books, but there’s only so much in-depth book discussion that can happen in 140 characters. When we both wanted to read Living in Sin by Anastasia Vitsky, part of a new collection of lesbian romances about Damsels in Distress from Less Than Three Press, I
I’m a little surprised that more romance characters aren’t in therapy. Love is awesome, but it can’t fix *everything*. — Elisabeth Lane (@elisabethjlane) March 19, 2015 I idly posted this on Twitter this morning, the result of a book I was reading, Living in Secret by Jackie Ashenden. I don’t want to give away any
This month’s TBR Challenge theme was “series catch-up” and while I’m stretching the spirit a little bit by both starting and finishing during the challenge month, the Playing the Fool series by Lisa Henry and J.A. Rock has been on my TBR pile since late last year. So I feel like it still qualifies
