Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young Title: All Kinds of Tied Down Author: Mary Calmes Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 290 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with... Continue Reading →
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young Title: All Kinds of Tied Down Author: Mary Calmes Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 290 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with... Continue Reading →
What is the purpose of fiction, specifically romantic fiction? Escapism? The big “happily ever after”? Finding the dream? The big awwwwww moment? For me, fiction is a journey outside myself that leaves me more enriched than it found me. Sometimes, that happens, sometimes not, but as Donald Maass reminds us in Writing the Breakout Novel,... Continue Reading →
What is the purpose of fiction, specifically romantic fiction? Escapism? The big “happily ever after”? Finding the dream? The big awwwwww moment? For me, fiction is a journey outside myself that leaves me more enriched than it found me. Sometimes, that happens, sometimes not, but as Donald Maass reminds us in Writing the Breakout Novel,... Continue Reading →
Blood & Thunder (Thirds Series, Bk #2) by Charlie Cochet Blurb: When a series of bombs go off in a Therian youth center, injuring members of THIRDS Team Destructive Delta, and causing a rift between agents Dexter J. Daley and Sloane Brodie, peace seems unattainable. Especially when a new and frightening group, the Order of... Continue Reading →
Blood & Thunder (Thirds Series, Bk #2) by Charlie Cochet Blurb: When a series of bombs go off in a Therian youth center, injuring members of THIRDS Team Destructive Delta, and causing a rift between agents Dexter J. Daley and Sloane Brodie, peace seems unattainable. Especially when a new and frightening group, the Order of... Continue Reading →
Title: Impractical Magic Author: M.J. O’Shea Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 206 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Physics teacher Fenton Keene is looking forward to a summer of doing nothing but hanging out with friends and maybe getting into a little trouble. With his best friend out of town, trouble seems like the best option... Continue Reading →
Title: Impractical Magic Author: M.J. O’Shea Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 206 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Physics teacher Fenton Keene is looking forward to a summer of doing nothing but hanging out with friends and maybe getting into a little trouble. With his best friend out of town, trouble seems like the best option... Continue Reading →
“This thing about you that you think is your flaw – it’s the reason I’m falling in love with you.” – Colleen Hoover Title: Raising the Rent Author: JL Merrow Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 88 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Rent boy rule number one: Never fall in love with a customer. Life as... Continue Reading →
“This thing about you that you think is your flaw – it’s the reason I’m falling in love with you.” – Colleen Hoover Title: Raising the Rent Author: JL Merrow Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 88 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Rent boy rule number one: Never fall in love with a customer. Life as... Continue Reading →
“He felt like he’d stepped into a storybook and found his happily ever after.” – J.P. Barnaby Title: A Heart for Robbie Author: J.P. Barnaby Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Celebrated Young Adult author Julian Holmes pits the heroic characters in his Black Heart series against all different kinds... Continue Reading →
“He felt like he’d stepped into a storybook and found his happily ever after.” – J.P. Barnaby Title: A Heart for Robbie Author: J.P. Barnaby Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Celebrated Young Adult author Julian Holmes pits the heroic characters in his Black Heart series against all different kinds... Continue Reading →
I’m just old enough to have been born when there were only 48 United States, and the world I was born into is not the world I live in today. Society is changing—too fast for some of us, not fast enough for others—and things that were once taboo, hidden behind locked doors and spoken of... Continue Reading →
I’m just old enough to have been born when there were only 48 United States, and the world I was born into is not the world I live in today. Society is changing—too fast for some of us, not fast enough for others—and things that were once taboo, hidden behind locked doors and spoken of... Continue Reading →
Title: Coming Home (Rock Bay: Book One) Author: M.J. O’Shea Narrator:: Tom Vilot Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 Hours, 37 Minutes Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Tallis Carrington ruled Rock Bay with his gang of jocks and an iron fist-until a scandal destroyed his family's name. Ten years later Tallis is dead broke, newly homeless,... Continue Reading →
Title: Coming Home (Rock Bay: Book One) Author: M.J. O’Shea Narrator:: Tom Vilot Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 Hours, 37 Minutes Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Tallis Carrington ruled Rock Bay with his gang of jocks and an iron fist-until a scandal destroyed his family's name. Ten years later Tallis is dead broke, newly homeless,... Continue Reading →
Title: If Wishes Were Horses Author: Silvia Violet Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 250 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Kenneth Carver had everything growing up except warmth and acceptance. When protecting his family’s name became more than he could bear, he came out as gay, sold his company, and bought a horse ranch. Andrew Wofford's last... Continue Reading →
Title: If Wishes Were Horses Author: Silvia Violet Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 250 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Kenneth Carver had everything growing up except warmth and acceptance. When protecting his family’s name became more than he could bear, he came out as gay, sold his company, and bought a horse ranch. Andrew Wofford's last... Continue Reading →
“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, as souls only understand souls.” ― Walt Whitman Title: Hard as Stone (SoulShares #1) Author: Rory Ni Coileain Publisher: Revenous Romance Pages/Word Count: 185 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Tiernan Guaire is a Fae in exile. Forced from the Realm into the human world for the... Continue Reading →
“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, as souls only understand souls.” ― Walt Whitman Title: Hard as Stone (SoulShares #1) Author: Rory Ni Coileain Publisher: Revenous Romance Pages/Word Count: 185 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Tiernan Guaire is a Fae in exile. Forced from the Realm into the human world for the... Continue Reading →
To celebrate the release of Mountains to Climb as part of the new What’s his Passion? imprint, Totally Bound are giving you the chance to win some fabulous prizes! Enter HERE Thank you for having here on your blog. I’m T.A. Chase and I’m here to chat about my upcoming book, Mountains to Climb, which... Continue Reading →
Title: Vegas Hustle Author: Ethan Stone Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 66 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: A business trip to Las Vegas becomes a life or death situation for a comic book fan. Comic book geek Adam Brand is young, good-looking and wealthy. He’s also a virgin because he’s not skilled at picking up... Continue Reading →
Title: Vegas Hustle Author: Ethan Stone Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 66 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: A business trip to Las Vegas becomes a life or death situation for a comic book fan. Comic book geek Adam Brand is young, good-looking and wealthy. He’s also a virgin because he’s not skilled at picking up... Continue Reading →
“For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.” - Brian L. Weiss Title: Testament to Love (2nd Edition) Author: Ariel Tachna Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 80 Rating: 2.5 Stars Blurb: Another mission to rescue yet another lost soul—Emmanuel isn’t sure how much more of the same old routine he can withstand. Get... Continue Reading →
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