Where Fiction and Reality Meet
THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED 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 and it comes in the form of his building's newest temporary resident,... Continue Reading →
“You’re better looking than Hugh Jackman. You’d make a better Wolverine too. You’re an animal in bed.” – Jena Wade Title: Technically Dating Author: Jena Wade Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 94 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Meek and mild Bruce Collins decides to set aside his life in technical support for the evening and... Continue Reading →
“You’re better looking than Hugh Jackman. You’d make a better Wolverine too. You’re an animal in bed.” – Jena Wade Title: Technically Dating Author: Jena Wade Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 94 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Meek and mild Bruce Collins decides to set aside his life in technical support for the evening and... Continue Reading →
“Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. – Harvey Milk Title: No Scarifice Author: Grace R. Duncan Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 400 Pages Rating: 2.5 Stars Blurb: Patrick has taken his acting talents from high school all the way to a role in a major... Continue Reading →
“Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. – Harvey Milk Title: No Scarifice Author: Grace R. Duncan Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 400 Pages Rating: 2.5 Stars Blurb: Patrick has taken his acting talents from high school all the way to a role in a major... Continue Reading →
Title: Jay Walking Author: Jacques N. Hoff Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 100 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Welcome to the avian shifter world of Undercover Peckers. Where love is instant the moment you find your mate. Where there’s only one true pecker for every man. Where the sex is so hot it will singe... Continue Reading →
Title: Jay Walking Author: Jacques N. Hoff Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 100 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Welcome to the avian shifter world of Undercover Peckers. Where love is instant the moment you find your mate. Where there’s only one true pecker for every man. Where the sex is so hot it will singe... Continue Reading →
“We will protect that which we love, even when we don’t want to love it and we don’t feel it loves us. Perhaps it doesn’t. That is how love works. It exists, whether or not it is returned.” – R. Cooper Title: Wicklow’s Odyssey Author: R. Cooper Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 350 Pages Rating:... Continue Reading →
“We will protect that which we love, even when we don’t want to love it and we don’t feel it loves us. Perhaps it doesn’t. That is how love works. It exists, whether or not it is returned.” – R. Cooper Title: Wicklow’s Odyssey Author: R. Cooper Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 350 Pages Rating:... Continue Reading →
Title: Hero Worship Author: Phoenix Emrys Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 224 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: In 1975 Douglas “King” Fisher is a teenage crusader who, with the help of his three friends, keeps the environs of Warden High bully-free. On the last day of school he is about to leave, thinking his job... Continue Reading →
Title: Hero Worship Author: Phoenix Emrys Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 224 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: In 1975 Douglas “King” Fisher is a teenage crusader who, with the help of his three friends, keeps the environs of Warden High bully-free. On the last day of school he is about to leave, thinking his job... Continue Reading →
Title: Tell the Bees I’m Sorry Author: Felicitas Ivey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 70 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Physics Grad Student Marcus Fitzhughes agrees to leave New York City with his roommate, Andy, to visit Andy’s uncles in Vermont. Marcus wants to escape the city and his ex-boyfriend, Dan, who hasn’t taken their... Continue Reading →
Title: Tell the Bees I’m Sorry Author: Felicitas Ivey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 70 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Physics Grad Student Marcus Fitzhughes agrees to leave New York City with his roommate, Andy, to visit Andy’s uncles in Vermont. Marcus wants to escape the city and his ex-boyfriend, Dan, who hasn’t taken their... 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 →
“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 →
“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 →
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 →
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