Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: There’s Something About Ari Author: L.B. Gregg Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 95 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Buck Ellis’s future seems pretty damn bright. With a full college scholarship in hand, he’s going to ditch Bluewater Bay and pave the way for his kid brother Charlie to do the same. The only fly... Continue Reading →
Title: There’s Something About Ari Author: L.B. Gregg Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 95 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Buck Ellis’s future seems pretty damn bright. With a full college scholarship in hand, he’s going to ditch Bluewater Bay and pave the way for his kid brother Charlie to do the same. The only fly... Continue Reading →
Title: Buck Baxter, Love Detective Author: Geoffrey Knight Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 90 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Welcome to Wilde City, 1924—a crane on top of every skyscraper, a party in every club, a romance on every dance floor, a shooting every night, a broken heart on every street corner and a... Continue Reading →
I enjoy BDSM stories—like really, really enjoy them. However, more specifically, I enjoy SM/Ds stories. There’s something about the relinquishing of power, particularly when it’s mixed with discomfort, that I find nearly intoxicating. The source of the discomfort/pain is rather irrelevant; it can be as benign and uncomplicated as orgasm denial, or a bit more... Continue Reading →
I enjoy BDSM stories—like really, really enjoy them. However, more specifically, I enjoy SM/Ds stories. There’s something about the relinquishing of power, particularly when it’s mixed with discomfort, that I find nearly intoxicating. The source of the discomfort/pain is rather irrelevant; it can be as benign and uncomplicated as orgasm denial, or a bit more... Continue Reading →
Q. The Novel Approach is so pleased to have Susan Mac Nicol with us today on the Love You Senseless Blog Tour. Susan, you have to choose one of your books to make into a movie: 1.) Which book would you choose and why? Susan: Oooh, what a leading question...I’d obviously love to see ALL... Continue Reading →
Title: Let It Be Author: Cheryl McIntyre Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 134 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: I’m the happy one. The dependable one. The shoulder. The anchor. The pillar. The rock. The matchmaker. I’m the one you call when you’ve had a bad day. When you need to vent, or scream, or cry. I... Continue Reading →
Title: The Circus of the Damned Author: Cornelia Grey Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 274 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Magician Gilbert Blake has spent his entire life conning drunkards in the seediest pubs in the darkest towns, careful to hide the true depths of his power. But when he spends a little too much... Continue Reading →
Greetings, everyone, and welcome back to a look at what we’ve got coming up in the week ahead, but first I’d love your feedback. You may have missed it, but earlier this week I wrote a blog post about ratings. For two days, the review team here at TNA and I had long conversations about... Continue Reading →
Title: Hot Off The Press Pages: 324 Buy Links: Dreamspinner | Amazon Blurb: Words hold the power to hurt as well as heal, and choosing them is a complicated and delicate process. No one knows this better than the men who work with them every day. Authors, reporters, reviewers, and publishers struggle to balance truth, art,... Continue Reading →
Title: Hunter’s Claim (A Pack of His Own: Book One) Author: Emily Carrington Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 247 Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Luis Delgado, psychic vampire, is in lust with a half werewolf who thinks Luis is a monster. Luis can deal with lust. That’s one of the fun parts of being a psychic... Continue Reading →
Title: Hunter’s Claim (A Pack of His Own: Book One) Author: Emily Carrington Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 247 Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Luis Delgado, psychic vampire, is in lust with a half werewolf who thinks Luis is a monster. Luis can deal with lust. That’s one of the fun parts of being a psychic... Continue Reading →
Title: Falling for Ramos Author: Sue Brown Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 226 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: A glimpse of a group of businessmen in a newspaper tells Colin Hess his old love, Alejandro Ramos, is back in London a decade after they split up. They met by chance as students, when Colin was... Continue Reading →
Title: Facing Demons (Scars: Book Three) Author: Lynley Wayne Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 379 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: When demons from his past interfere with his present, Cam knows Seth is the only one he can trust to help him face them. At the age of fifteen, Seth Dempsey gave his heart to... Continue Reading →
Blurb: Three years after his family’s Secrets in the Air rocked Rhett O’Neil’s world, they crash it down – with disastrous consequences. With the FBI missions expanding overseas and Kaden leaving his job, Rhett and his grandfather agree – despite reservations – to give Annabelle the chance to take a more active role in the... Continue Reading →
Title: Accidental Contact and Other Mahu Investigations (Mahu #7.5) Author: Neil Plakcy Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 187 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sex, mayhem and justice in the Aloha State as openly gay Honolulu homicide detective tracks murderers, missing people & a dog with unusual appetites. From murderers to missing babies to a shaggy... Continue Reading →
Title: Drawing the Devil Author: Jon Keys Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 162 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A heart can live a lifetime in eight seconds. Ever since his father caught him with another boy and threw him out at the tender age of sixteen, Dustin Lewis has been fighting his way up the... Continue Reading →
Title: Trapped in Oz (Tales From Kansas: Book Three) Author: Andrew Grey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Martin Long has plans and dreams, but they are derailed when his parents move and must sell their house. In need of a place to stay, fast, he answers an ad for a roommate,... Continue Reading →
Darach’sCariad is available 7th November on Love Lane Books, Amazon and AllRomance. Book 1 in the series, Kian’s Hunter, will be available at 99c from 7th of November until the end of the month. Click HERE for all buy links Blurb: DarachGravenorhas blue magic. He is alone in his world and he wants to rescue... Continue Reading →
Darach’sCariad is available 7th November on Love Lane Books, Amazon and AllRomance. Book 1 in the series, Kian’s Hunter, will be available at 99c from 7th of November until the end of the month. Click HERE for all buy links Blurb: DarachGravenorhas blue magic. He is alone in his world and he wants to rescue... Continue Reading →
I’ve never been particularly comfortable with the random parts of life. Like my character Caleb Jorde, in Random Acts, I would prefer to know what’s coming in life and to be afforded with plenty of opportunity to structure my world into clear emotional categories in order to prepare. That way I’d be ready for any... Continue Reading →
Title: Cherry Pie Author: Samantha Kane Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 169 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: You can go home again—if you can get a foot in the door. A year after packing and moving from L.A. to Mercury, North Carolina, John Ford still hasn’t adjusted to the heat. Or to life without his... Continue Reading →
Title: A Package Deal Author: Jaxx Steele Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 66 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: One drunken night turned Phillip’s life upside down. Could James be the man to turn it right side up? A drunken decision in college during dare week changes Phillip Drake’s life forever. In less than two years,... Continue Reading →
I’ve seen some discussion on the internet recently that focuses on that heinous and subjective little number we each choose to assign to the reviews of the books we read. I’ll be the first to admit that we here at The Novel Approach seem more prone to like than to dislike the books we... Continue Reading →
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