All About Samhain

This week from Samhain:

• Miss Lonely Hearts Charlene Teglia. Category. Romantic comedy.
• Twilight Ally Blue. Novel. Gay paranormal romance. Book 3 in the Bay City Paranormal Investigations series.
• Desert Heat Leigh Wyndfield. Short story. Futuristic romance.

Psst. Novemeber 1, celebrating Samhain’s two-year anniversay will have the release of three Love and Lore novellas by Gia Dawn, Sela Carson and Carolan Ivey.

Best sellers at My Bookstore and More:

1. Rode Hard, Put Up Wet by Lorelei James
2. Anticipation by Patrice Michelle
3. The Strength of Three by Annmarie McKenna

From last week, Rode Hard, Put Up Wet, Anticipation and Hot Weather made it onto the list. As did Mirage.

Haven review

Hey, there’s a surprise review of Haven from The Romance Studio. 4.5 hearts. What a nice treat!

I absolutely could NOT put it down! It is a fast-paced, fun read with lots of interaction between the characters. I love this book!

Thanks, Brenda Talley!

Reading

I read and very much enjoyed two books recently: Emma Holly’s All U Can Eat and Kelley Armstrong’s Exit Strategy.

Anyway, totally different books. The first is chock full of sex, thoroughly enjoyable, nice character development (during sex) and totally appealing characters. I need to pick up Fairyville. While Menage may still be my favorite Holly, All U Can Eat was the perfect read for me last week.

I just love the title Exit Strategy. I found it a compelling read. Lots of unresolved sexual tension. Not a romance. Lots of action. Well paced and interesting. I liked the heroine’s backstory and how everything was not spelled out. I’ll be picking up the second book in this series. As well, I am going to return to her Bitten series.

Just so you know, the heroine is an assassin. Some people have trouble with the morals involved in that kind of premise and I can see that. But I think there’s a bit of fantasy thing going on there where in fiction the “good” assassin is the one who eliminates evil in a direct and satisfying way. It’s a little less complicated than real life (well, all fiction is) and I enjoy it, though the assassin hero/heroine needs a careful hand, I think.

Dunvegas

There’s a round robin going on at Beyond the Veil. This round robin will consist of short romance stories that take place in or around a ParaExpo convention set in the fictional Dunvegas casino.

First installment starts here.

All of the round robin can be found here.

All About Samhain

This week from Samhain:

• Roan of Ellan Vannin Gloria Wiederhold. Plus novel. Historical romance.
• Hot Weather Matthew Haldeman-Time. Short story. Contemporary gay romance.
• Anticipation Patrice Michelle. Novella. Contemporary romance. Red hot.
• Rode Hard, Put Up Wet Lorelei James. Novel. Western romance. Red hot.

Best sellers from My Bookstore and More:

1. Reading Between The Lines by Lauren Dane
2. The Strength of Three by Annmarie McKenna
3. Brazen by Maya Banks

From last week, Ready or Not made it onto the bestseller list.

Recently Mrs. Giggles gave high marks to:

• Hot Weather by Matthew Haldeman-Time 79
• Anticipation by Patrice Michelle 80
• For the Love of Jazz by Shiloh Walker 78
• Homeland by Michael Amos 84

Bid!

Samhain’s executive editor, Angela James, is on sale. That is, you can buy a 30-page critique of hers, all to benefit AAR’s Hands on New Orleans. First bid is $9.99, and it’s already rising! Go here.

All About Samhain

This week from Samhain:

• Judgment at John’s Hollow Lionel LaVergne. Novel. Mainstream.
• Ready or Not Anara Bella. Novella. Contemporary romance.
• The Enchanted Inn Pam Champagne. Novella. Time travel romance.

Best sellers at My Bookstore and More:

1. Reading Between The Lines by Lauren Dane
2. Brazen by Maya Banks
3. The Strength of Three by Annmarie McKenna

For the Love of Jazz, Unbreakable, The Dragons of Ankoll Keep and Nate—Devils on Horseback all made it onto the list.

Elsewhere

I’m at the Samhain blog and Beyond the Veil, talking about TV and old childhood movies whose names I can’t remember.

All About Samhain

This week from Samhain:

• The Vampire…In My Dreams Terry Lee Wilde. Novel. Young adult.
• Callye’s Justice Donica Covey. Category. Romantic suspense.
• Mirage Monica Burns. Plus novel. Historical romance.
• Unconditional Surrender Denise A. Agnew. Novella. Romantic suspense.

Best sellers at My Bookstore and More:

1. Ask Adam by Jess Dee
2. Brazen by Maya Banks
3. The Strength of Three by Annmarie McKenna

Craving Kismet and Snowbound made it onto the bestseller list.

Doctor Who, series one

Okay, so I may be the last person on earth to have ever watched any Doctor Who. But that has now changed. I saw some episodes of the first season of the new series, with Christopher Eccleston. Why did I only see some? Because some members of my family insist on watching them all in a row and I can’t watch straight TV that way. So I saw the first two episodes. They were okay, a bit sillier than I’d hoped. But I got roped back in when Captain Jack appeared and saw most of the last four or five episodes.

So, question, are there any not-to-be-missed episodes in season one of the revived Doctor Who?

I was quite surprised, I have to admit, that there’s a new actor for Doctor Who. I had grown fond of Christopher Eccleston. Ah, well.

Anyway, verdict: really liked show, will watch more, though not ten episodes a day!