Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Fair Isn't Life Series: States of Love: Minnesota Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Length: 148 Pages Category: Contemporary At a Glance: Fair Isn’t Life is a sweetly awkward and enjoyable NA story. Reviewed By: Jovan Blurb: Luke Lafontaine survived the past year by not thinking about the father he lost, the dairy farm... Continue Reading →
Title: Love and Lint Rollers Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: Self-Published Length: 202 Pages Category: Contemporary At a Glance: In spite of a couple of niggles, Love and Lint Rollers is a strong romance novel that resolved itself rather nicely. Reviewed By: Sammy Blurb: Even with six beloved cats at home, Thom Fletcher can't help opening... Continue Reading →
Title: Don't Plan to Stay Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: Self-Published Length: 152 Pages Category: Contemporary, Holiday At a Glance: If you’re looking for a deep and meaningful holiday story, you won’t go wrong with Kaje Harper’s offering. Reviewed By: Sammy Blurb: At eighteen, Donnie Kagan's plans for graduation, and maybe even college, were derailed by... Continue Reading →
Title: Building Forever (The Rebuilding Year: Book Three) Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: Self-Published Length: 109 Pages Category: Contemporary At a Glance: This delightful short is the cherry on the sundae of this series. Reviewed By: Cassie Blurb: Four years ago, Ryan and John decided they'd wait to get married until it came with full legal... Continue Reading →
Title: The Rebuliding Year Author: Kaje Harper Narrator: Gomez Pugh Publisher: Self-Published Run Time: 9 hours and 44 minutes Category: Contemporary At a Glance: This is a satisfyingly lengthy audiobook peopled by awesome characters building an unexpected relationship against a backdrop of family drama and surprise suspense. Reviewed By: Cassie Blurb: It took losing nearly... Continue Reading →
...and what a fun five years it's been... The Novel Approach is celebrating five years in the online M/M romance community. Five years ago, I was also beginning a journey— in my case into the world of publishing, after decades of secret writing. My first book that year, Lies and Consequences, was a self-pub experiment... Continue Reading →
Title: Unsafe Exposure (Hidden Wolves: Book Four) Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: MLR Press Length: 388 Pages Category: Paranormal At a Glance: Kaje Harper’s Hidden Wolves series just keeps getting better and better. She is continually recreating this paranormal genre and breathing new life into it with each installment. Reviewed By: Sammy Blurb: Stepping out of... Continue Reading →
Title: Tracefinder: Changes (Tracefinder: Book Two Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: Self-Published Length: 469 Pages (Kindle) Category: Paranormal, Action/Thriller At a Glance: Kaje Harper delivers an exciting story rife with incredibly well drawn characters and a tightly constructed plot that has more than its fair share of action, drama and heart-stopping moments. Reviewed By: Sammy Blurb:... Continue Reading →
Title: Tracefinder: Contact Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 518 Pages At a Glance: Exciting, action-packed and emotionally charged, this novel has it all. Reviewed By: Sammy Blurb: Brian Kerr has spent years hiding behind a facade of mental slowness. His brother and sister got all three of them off the streets and into a... Continue Reading →
Title: Life, Some Assembly Required (The Rebuilding Year: Book Two) Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 327 Pages At a Glance: Life, Some Assembly Required is a fabulous follow up to The Rebuilding Year, and I loved watching these two men fall more in love. Reviewed By: Karen Blurb: Finding love in the... Continue Reading →
Title: The Family We Make Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 461 Pages At A Glance: I recommend this book for all of us who’ve ever struggled to feel accepted. Reviewed By: Chris Blurb: At seventeen, Rick Albright left his home, his parents and even his old name, rather than pretend to be straight.... Continue Reading →
Title: Storming Love: Nelson & Caleb Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 87 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Nelson Dunn has a settled routine – an evening security-guard job, days off for his therapy dogs, occasional club sex, and good books. He sometimes dreams about more, but he’s made himself content. So when... Continue Reading →
Title: Storming Love: Nelson & Caleb Author: Kaje Harper Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 87 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Nelson Dunn has a settled routine – an evening security-guard job, days off for his therapy dogs, occasional club sex, and good books. He sometimes dreams about more, but he’s made himself content. So when... Continue Reading →
Welcome to another place in time...where one can be swept away into lands and eras long forgotten. This collection of short stories was birthed because a sworn "I don't like historicals" reader fell in love with what have become some of her favorite books by most of her favorite writers. Surprisingly, they were all historicals.... Continue Reading →
Happy Sunday, everyone, I hope you've had a great weekend so far! We have an outstanding week ahead for you here at The Novel Approach, including the kickoff of our GayRomLit Virtual Gift Basket Giveaways--Gift Cards and E-books Galore. We'll have three baskets to give away this week, and four next week, so be sure... Continue Reading →
Happy Sunday, everyone, I hope you've had a great weekend so far! We have an outstanding week ahead for you here at The Novel Approach, including the kickoff of our GayRomLit Virtual Gift Basket Giveaways--Gift Cards and E-books Galore. We'll have three baskets to give away this week, and four next week, so be sure... Continue Reading →
Writing werewolves in the real world. When Lisa at The Novel Approach offered me a chance to give one of my older books a bump, I wasn't sure which one to choose. But it turns out, I still can't resist my first werewolf, Simon. So it had to be Unacceptable Risk. When I wrote the... Continue Reading →
Writing werewolves in the real world. When Lisa at The Novel Approach offered me a chance to give one of my older books a bump, I wasn't sure which one to choose. But it turns out, I still can't resist my first werewolf, Simon. So it had to be Unacceptable Risk. When I wrote the... Continue Reading →
Happy Sunday, gang, I hope it’s been an outstanding week for all of you. Or at least that the reading has been good. That alone can make up for a lot. ::nods:: :) We’ve got another great week ahead, seven fun-filled days of giveaways, interviews, articles, and, of course, reviews galore just for you. So... Continue Reading →
Happy Sunday, gang, I hope it’s been an outstanding week for all of you. Or at least that the reading has been good. That alone can make up for a lot. ::nods:: :) We’ve got another great week ahead, seven fun-filled days of giveaways, interviews, articles, and, of course, reviews galore just for you. So... Continue Reading →
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” ― Paulo Coelho ***This... Continue Reading →
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” ― Paulo Coelho ***This... Continue Reading →
Kaje Harper, and the guys who live in my head... “Write-oholic” : /rīt-.ə-ˈhȯ-lik/ - a person who looks at anything, no matter how simple or mundane, and immediately has characters leaping up inside their head, saying, “That's me, my story, write mine...” And who can't say no to the stories. Like this one: Uke Carson... Continue Reading →
Well, it's that time of year again, the time of year when we all wonder where the days and weeks and months have gone, the time to reflect on some of the great books we've read throughout the year, the time of year I scratch my head and wonder if I'll ever live long enough... Continue Reading →
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