Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Once you want something, everything changes.” – Ally Condie Title: Ironhearted (Hope Cove: Book Three) Author: Cate Ashwood Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Haydn Prescott stood by and watched his friends fall in love, something he hopes never happens to him. It’s too much drama, thankyouverymuch. He just wants a... Continue Reading →
“At heart, after all, he was a romantic.” – Amy Rae Durreson Title: Aunt Adeline’s Bequest Author: Amy Rae Durreson Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 51 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: One snowy evening, wounded WWI veteran Jasper Pritchard arrives at Valentine Nugent’s sweet shop with an unusual request. Jasper’s deceased great-aunt has left him... Continue Reading →
“At heart, after all, he was a romantic.” – Amy Rae Durreson Title: Aunt Adeline’s Bequest Author: Amy Rae Durreson Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 51 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: One snowy evening, wounded WWI veteran Jasper Pritchard arrives at Valentine Nugent’s sweet shop with an unusual request. Jasper’s deceased great-aunt has left him... Continue Reading →
“When I am lonely for boys, it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part... Continue Reading →
“When I am lonely for boys, it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part... Continue Reading →
"Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.” ― Stephen King Title: Rare (Roads: Book Two) Author: Garrett Leigh Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 240 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Paramedic Pete Adams lived through the year from hell watching his lover, Ash, fall... Continue Reading →
"Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.” ― Stephen King Title: Rare (Roads: Book Two) Author: Garrett Leigh Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 240 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Paramedic Pete Adams lived through the year from hell watching his lover, Ash, fall... Continue Reading →
“If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?” ― Joe Namath Title: Cold War Author: Keira Andrews Publisher: Loose-Id Pages/Word Count: 100 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: After an explosive locker room confrontation with his Russian rival ends in the most surprising and intense sex of his life, American pairs skater... Continue Reading →
“If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?” ― Joe Namath Title: Cold War Author: Keira Andrews Publisher: Loose-Id Pages/Word Count: 100 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: After an explosive locker room confrontation with his Russian rival ends in the most surprising and intense sex of his life, American pairs skater... Continue Reading →
“Jealousy is love in competition.” ― Toba Beta Title: Lineage (Master of the Lines: Book One) Author: Angela Fiddler Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 157 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Love didn't just kick you when [you] were down; it staked you out and turned you into a vampire. Not that Vision was bitter. His ex-lover... Continue Reading →
“Jealousy is love in competition.” ― Toba Beta Title: Lineage (Master of the Lines: Book One) Author: Angela Fiddler Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 157 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Love didn't just kick you when [you] were down; it staked you out and turned you into a vampire. Not that Vision was bitter. His ex-lover... Continue Reading →
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Title: The Pack or the Panther Author: Tara Lain Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 202 Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Cole Harker, son of an alpha werewolf, is bigger and more powerful than... Continue Reading →
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Title: The Pack or the Panther Author: Tara Lain Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 202 Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Cole Harker, son of an alpha werewolf, is bigger and more powerful than... Continue Reading →
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” ― Oscar Wilde Title: Eidolon (Whyborne & Griffin, #1.5) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Griffin Flaherty wants nothing more than to create a perfect Valentine’s Day for his lover, Dr. Percival Endicott Whyborne. Dinner at a fancy restaurant, an evening at... Continue Reading →
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” ― Oscar Wilde Title: Eidolon (Whyborne & Griffin, #1.5) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Griffin Flaherty wants nothing more than to create a perfect Valentine’s Day for his lover, Dr. Percival Endicott Whyborne. Dinner at a fancy restaurant, an evening at... Continue Reading →
HI ALL! I’m Jena Wade, here to talk (Blog?) with you about my novel Lumber & Law – sequel to Shoes & Ties - available from Loose-Id - and what makes my characters sexy. First of all, writing Jesse Brody was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. He’s funny, he’s candid, and he does whatever... Continue Reading →
“What was I writing, exactly? Romance? Drama? Slice of life? Romantic comedy?… I realized it was none of those things. It was a love story about a father and a son. The rest was window dressing.” – Nick Wilgus Title: Shaking the Sugar Tree Author: Nick Wilgus Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 304 Pages Rating:... Continue Reading →
“What was I writing, exactly? Romance? Drama? Slice of life? Romantic comedy?… I realized it was none of those things. It was a love story about a father and a son. The rest was window dressing.” – Nick Wilgus Title: Shaking the Sugar Tree Author: Nick Wilgus Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 304 Pages Rating:... Continue Reading →
“The road to finding ‘the one’ is paved with a bit of promiscuity.” – Tim Robbins Title: Tailor Made Author: Josephine Myles Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 114 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: When Mr. Wrong measures up just right! College tart Felix McAvoy is used to causing a stir with his conceptual art pranks, but... Continue Reading →
“The road to finding ‘the one’ is paved with a bit of promiscuity.” – Tim Robbins Title: Tailor Made Author: Josephine Myles Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 114 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: When Mr. Wrong measures up just right! College tart Felix McAvoy is used to causing a stir with his conceptual art pranks, but... Continue Reading →
“Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls.” – Grant Morrison Title: Conventional Love: Checkmate Book Three Author: Lex Chase Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 154 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sequel to Cashing the Reality Check Checkmate: Book Three Three years ago, superhero Memphis Rook saved Hogarth Dawson’s life,... Continue Reading →
“Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls.” – Grant Morrison Title: Conventional Love: Checkmate Book Three Author: Lex Chase Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 154 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sequel to Cashing the Reality Check Checkmate: Book Three Three years ago, superhero Memphis Rook saved Hogarth Dawson’s life,... Continue Reading →
“We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict.” ― Bryant McGill Title: The Actor & the Thief Author: Edward Kendrick Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 26000 Words Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Once they were a couple. Now—they’re far from it. Just out of prison, Craig heads to Denver. At... Continue Reading →
“We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict.” ― Bryant McGill Title: The Actor & the Thief Author: Edward Kendrick Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 26000 Words Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Once they were a couple. Now—they’re far from it. Just out of prison, Craig heads to Denver. At... Continue Reading →
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