World Book Day
Posted on April 24, 2017
So, I think that absolutely everyone knows I am a Karen Chance fan. I am a reader, so for me finding a great series is like finding a lost present the day after your birthday. Some of the series are one off’s-I will read them once and they will forever live in my head and one day a friend will say something about a series in which Mab owns a circus and I’ll be able to pull the title out of nowhere. Some, Like Karen Chance become a large part of my life as I try to drum up support for their releases. Some I support on Patreon, because the thought of a world without the next Kit Colbana book makes me want to cry!
There are lots of authors I connect with as a reader and I ask questions of lots of them. Some like Karen answer me themselves, others have Media Minions who answer for them. I treasure each of these interactions and can live off the excitement for days. But there are a few who become my friends. There is no one I respect more than Amy Lane. I have been a fan of her works for what feels like forever. I love her Little Goddess Series which she self published. I warn you there is explicit sex with multiple partners. Amy also writes m/m romance novels and she shys away from nothing. Her books are real and there is lots of emotional reality. There are lots of situations that will break your heart. The characters are easily related to.
World Book Day
Posted on April 23, 2017
Happy world book day! Take a moment to thank your favorite authors for working so hard throughout the year to bring us wonderful worlds to visit and strong heroes and heroines! @LKHamilton @AuthorCFeehan @Jennifer_Estep @seananmcguire @laurendane @shilohwalker @VickiPettersson @JRWard1 @kenyonsherrilyn @diannalove @NoraRoberts @JayminEve1 @karenchance @KelleyArmstrong @KFBreene @debradunbar Jt ELLISON @LarissaIone @lara_adrian @kresleycole @LarissaIone @pccastauthor @KCastAuthor @jacquelinecarey @RichelleMead @rachelcaine @Darynda @YasmineGalenorn @JCareyAuthor @shilohwalker @jennablack @ShannonMayer @KendraElliot, @MelindaLeigh, @PCornwellFans @1pcornwell @WendyPiniMasque @wendyandrichardpini, @SarahFine, @amylane , @CarrieVaughan1 @marjoriemliu , @kelleygay @KellyKeaton @elfquest @skyewarren2381 @meredithwild @chloeneill , @JanieneFrost, @christinewarre , @katiemacalister, @NaliniSingh @wildmeredith, @GenaShowalter, @AmyLane, @Karen Chance @LaurenDane
[Top]Repost of Ride the Storm review
Posted on April 12, 2017 inUncategorized
Ride the Storm Book Review: I received an ARC (advanced readers copy) from Karen Chance in exchange for writing a spoiler free review and that’s going to be difficult let me tell you because this book is 608 pages of non-stop action, plot twists and fantastic dialog! When this book comes out on August 1st don’t buy one copy, BUY TWO; you’ll need them because this book is so good you wont be able to put it down even for a minute! Your children will run amok, you’ll burn dinner two nights in a row, the dog will stare forlornly at you from next to his leash and your husband will wonder if you’ve finally lost your mind because you will bump into walls walking with the book in front of your face; you’ll trip over shoes and toys and forget to eat because you cant stop! You have to find out what happens on the next page!! And that second copy? you need it for when you inevitably take the book to the bath tub after the children are in bed and you drop the first one because NO! THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN!! 😀 Karen Chance is a Master wordsmith and proves it once again with book 8 in the Cassandra Palmer series. Her writing just gets better and better. If there were a Senate of Authors, Chance would be the Consul. Her words are that powerful; the action scenes so intense you’ll find yourself leaping up from the couch or pacing frantically around the room as you devour them because you can feel them right down to your bones. You just know if you don’t move, leap right along with them, do SOMETHING they might not make it! Like one of Cassie’s visions you are sucked in and jerked along for a 600 page tornado ride that sucks everything from the first 8 books up in its maw and spins them wildly, throwing everything you thought you knew in a whole new light and nothing will ever be the same, and you’ll love every minute of it!!!! The only thing I can say is Bring on Book 9!!!! After riding this Storm I can’t wait for MORE!!!!!
[Top]the interminable wait for book _______
Posted on April 10, 2017 inUncategorized
So, here’s the thing. I am a reader. And with the advent of new technology, I can have my phone read to me while I do a gazillion other things…So, due to the fact that I had a speed reading class in high school and …well I consume books. And quickly. It makes Tuesdays my favorite day. And I have a lot of series I follow. So Karen Chance is one among the many for me. And at first I was Seriously mad at the delays and changing publication dates.
But in the last year, I have come to realize that my book’s are a coping mechanism. They give me something to hold on to. Something to talk about. Something to occupy the 60% of my brain that keeps screaming this can’t be my life. And to let me be somewhat calm, and positive. At least I’m not being chased by monsters, only creditors! And yes, I am a widow with two beautiful teenage daughters. Which means that I am scared to bring any man home because I am very careful about my blue eyed, blonde haired beautiful brilliant children are exposed to. And I had a great husband which means I am not willing to settle for anything else. So I read a lot of very explicit series cause that’s my only sexual release.
So I read Laurell K Hamilton and lots of others. But here’s the thing. We have to support our authors. The publishing business is hard. And they create these amazing worlds and characters we all.love. And for them the creation process is amazingly complex with first drafts and then edit after edit. Some people get really nasty about these amazing works of creation. And I understand that, too. I love the main characters in my books. They are like friends who I visit with every time I read the book. And I hate some of the things that happen. In a way even the violently negative feedback is a compliment to the author. But why should they keep spending 6-8 hours a day writing for us if we just bitch about it. Why do the work of edit after edit?
I am making a stand. Laurell K Hamilton won’t publish when her next book will be out or which series it will be. Why should she? Her fans will wail and whimper. If she just publishes it and tells us after the last draft is finalized, she gets to bypass all the people mad when she misses a date! And poor Karen Chance, who keeps trying to put out book 8-but the book is too long for paperback. And then there’s the other stuff she writes. Freebie’s that are hard work for her but taken as though they are due to the readers. Ever since Karen published Book 7, with delays, she has been working hard to give us a good book 8. And what do the readers do? Some of us go back and reread. Look for all the nuances we keep missing in the race to find out what happened. And then another group gets vocal-and trashes Karen Chance for missing publicized release dates. Rather than doing that, I’m doing the opposite.
I am going to support my favorite authors. I don’t care how long I have to wait for the next installment. I’m going to send them messages, asking questions about the books I have. I’m going to reread, and laugh and cry and scream and yell. I’m going to write new reviews, new FAQs, new posts. I’m going to do whatever the hell I can to make sure I get to know how the stories end. I will write petitions. I will beg, plead and cajole. I will help the next Kit Colbana book be made by sending money on Patreon. And I will appreciate the freebies, the alternate POV, the deleted scenes. I am doubly supportive of the authors I love who have prepublished schedules and put out surprise books too! I love Jenna Black and Lauren Dane and Seanan Mcguire and Kelley Armstrong and Christine Feehan. But I will keep on supporting everyone…
[Top]The Chosen by Jr Ward- a review
Posted on April 5, 2017 inUncategorized
I have long been a fan of Paranormal Romance and Jr Ward has been one of my authors. All the readers out there know what I am talking about. We each have a few authors whom we adopt. We preorder their books months in advance and wait anxiously for release day. We are at Barnes and Noble when the doors open or we order from Amazon to make sure we get the book on release day. Sometimes we buy more than one copy to make sure we have the book no matter what happens. JR Ward was one of my authors. But something happened with the Black Dagger Brotherhood right around book 8 and they changed. I wanted to love the books as they came out and with some of them I was successful, with others not so much. The characters were there but the trials they faced were just so awful. Some of it felt contrived. And some of the stories had so many storylines trying to interact, it was easy to get lost in the shuffle. In hindsight, I see that the books had to change and given the strong emotional investment we had in all the characters the jumping around was necessary. Then things got worse. The Happily Ever After endings stopped coming. Some of the characters died and it was worse than the first time around. It felt like the world in the books was every bit as bad as the real world. Tragedy dogged the steps of our favorite characters and rather than resolution we got abdication.
A lot of fans left. And they were vocal about their defections. And a lot of the fans that remained were more cautious. Yes, we wanted to read it. We wanted to see how our characters were doing. But the excitement was tempered with trepidation. What big bad thing was going to happen now? So, I was ambivalent when I got my copy of the Chosen. I have to say that after reading it I am cautiously optimistic for the series. And JR Ward is back to being one of my authors. I’m a little frightened for the next book because I think its going to be about one of my favorite couples and I don’t want anything bad to happen to them.
I could write a long review of the Chosen, but since I am releasing this review on release day I will hold my tongue. I will say this, though. The Chosen has restored my faith in the BDB. So, I will wait with bated breath for our next book and I recommend that the readers who defected recently over a certain death might be surprised by what happens in this book.
[Top]Best and the Worst of Books
Posted on April 3, 2017 inUncategorized
I’m concerned. I’m confused. I don’t get it at all. I have a number of authors that I follow religiously. I use FictFact (www.fictfact.com) to keep track of my series and the release dates. I know a bunch of other people are buying the books too. But some of my favorite authors are facing a publishing crisis. Someone has decided that paranormal romance is dead. I want to know who that is-I have bunches of receipts to prove it isn’t! Urban fantasy is on a downswing and fantasy is dead. That isn’t the case with my friends and to be honest I am absolutely not going to let it happen! So whoever has decided that paranormal shouldn’t be published hasn’t looked at the right numbers or in the right places! And nothing hurts quite so much as a story unfinished!
[Top]Don’t be stupid Read the freebies!
Posted on March 31, 2017 inUncategorized
Just an FYI–Karen Chance does things a little differently. She writes awesome books for her publisher and she also writes free stories that bridge the gap between novels. Karen Chance actually writes these novellas and works just as hard on them as the novels. While some authors might have a deleted scene or two, Karen has scenes from different POV’s and the free stories are important! She writes them as a thank you to her loyal fans and it makes her a spectacular author to interact with
[Top]Reread Nirvana
Posted on March 31, 2017 inUncategorized
So, I’ve decided to like what I like. Rather than looking for new Authors and series, I’m going back to my old favorites and boy am I loving it! I have done 2 Anita Blake rereads and have a totally different take on the series since there is no pressure to find out what happens. I flew through Merry Gentry in 3 days. And I found myself revisiting Lauren Dane’s Goddess with a Blade series. Then I read the new paranormal series from Lauren Dane-Diablo Lake. And now I just reread Karen Chance’s Cassandra Palmer and Dorina Basarab series. WOW, I loved spending time with Cassie and Dory. It’s amazing that all these authors have created complex worlds for us to explore and there are so many similarities but each series has a totally different take.
[Top]Women’s day authors I want to celebrate
Posted on March 9, 2017 inUncategorized
thank
you to all the women who create amazing worlds with strong heroines for us to
visit..Here’s a short list of some of my favorites…..#Laurell K Hamilton, #Christine Feehan,
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Jennifer Estep,
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Seanan
McGuire,
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Lauren Dane,
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Shiloh Walker,
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Vicki Pettersson,
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JR Ward,
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Sherrilyn Kenyon,
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Dianna Love,
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Nora Roberts,
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Catherine Coulter,
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Jaymin Eve,
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Karen Chance,
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Kelley Armstrong,
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KF Breene,
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Debra Dunbar,
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Jt ELLISON,
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Lara
Adrian,
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Kresley Cole,
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Larissa Ione,
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PC Cast,
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Kristin Cast,
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Jacqueline Carey,
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Richelle Mead,
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Rachel Caine,
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Darynda Jones,
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Yasmine Galenorn,
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Jenna Black,
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Shannon Mayer,
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Kendra
Elliot,
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Melinda Leigh,
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Patricia CORNWELL,
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Wendy Pini,
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Sarah Fine,
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Amy Lane,
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Carrie Vaughn,
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Marjorie M. Liu,
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Kelly Gay,
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Skye Warren,
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Meredith Wild,
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Chloe
Neill,
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Janiene Frost,
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Christine Warren,
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Katie Macallister,
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Nalini Singh,
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Kim
Harrison,#Gena SHOWALTER and
I am sure there are more that will come to me as the day continues
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