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Here is a text transcript of DBSA Podcast 71: Discoveries You Envy, What Makes for Great Romance, and Reader Email About Alpha Males. You can listen to the mp3 here, or you can read on – and on and on and on! Recently, a listener contacted me about transcribing for us, as her dayjob is professional audio transcription. Many thanks to Garlicknitter, who transcribed this for us! Here are the books we discuss in this … Continue reading Transcript: Podcast 71. Discoveries You Envy, What Makes for Great Romance, and Reader Email About A→
RECOMMENDED: Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry is $2.99 right now. It has tremendous emotion, angst, and teenagers dealing with adults things that are difficult and challenging – and all of those things can make for a polarizing reading experience. This book was a Book Club Pick in August 2012, and was nominated for a RITA® as well. From our RITA® Reader Challenge review by Staci: “this book pulled me in two very different directions. … Continue reading Books on Sale: Angst and Emotion with Katie McGarry, Julia Spencer-Fleming, and Katana Collins→
Here in the US, Mother's Day is Sunday 12 May! Did you get a gift? If you're having an attack of the OH NOES, fear not – we're here to help. I put the call out this morning on social media for book recommendations for mom, after author Kate Eden tweeted that books make an excellent gift for mom (to “make up for being a pain in the ass”), heh. This is an excellent idea … Continue reading Books for Mom for Mother’s Day→
First: the DABWAHA Second Chance Tournament is up! Bracket busted? You get a Second Chance! Starting with the Sweet 16, pick your winners – and there's prizes for this tourney, too! This is a separate contest – your picks in this tourney don't override your picks in the main tourney, in other words. The winner of the 2nd Chance Bracket will receive a Kindle Fire, a $100 Amazon giftcard, and an ARC of Echoes at Dawn, … Continue reading Second Chances, Congrats, and Deals!→
This week's Top 10 is late because for the life of me, I can't find the Mackenzie's Bundle anywhere anymore. I don't think it's on sale this week, but it was last week, and lots of you bought it. I hope you enjoyed it! Me, I've been on vacation, and I read a TON, which made me terribly happy. Here's this week's Top Ten: Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley | Amazon | BN | Sony … Continue reading SBTB/DA Bestsellers: 28 February - 6 March 2012→
So, what are you reading this weekend? What books are you totally enjoying? Share share! This weekend I'm in the car with the family heading out for vacation, and I plan to read as much as I can in the car. While the kids are awake, I read magazines, because it's easier for me to stop reading an article than it is a book. When I read a book, I tend to be completely unaware … Continue reading So, What Are You Reading This Weekend (With Some Sale Links)?→
Time for this week's Top Ten, which has caused me to grin like a grinning fool. Thanks to everyone who purchased EIKAL, and thanks to Sourcebooks for putting it on sale. Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo Her Husband's Harlot (Mayhem in Mayfair #1) by Grace Callaway | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | In the Bleak Midwinter … Continue reading SBTB/DA Bestsellers: 31 January - 7 February 2012→
First, if you have a Kindle with Special Offers, there's a special offer to redeem that gets you a coupon code. The code allows you to pick one book from a selection of 100 romances and buy it for $1. WOO! If you have a Kindle and would like to enable special offers to try to grab this coupon code, you can change the settings on your Kindle account and subscribe to special offers. Here's … Continue reading Sales and Discounts→
First: NEWS! Which isn't new news, but I'm still thinking about it. Literary god Jonathan Franzen decided that ebooks are horrible and immoral and paper books have a tangible longevity that is superior to digital. Yeah, whatever. Here's my question: I think there needs to be a term for book format prejudice, and it works both ways. There are snide comments made about paper by ebook lovers, and equally snide Franzenesque comments about digital from … Continue reading Book Format Prejudice and eBook Sales→
Lots of winners to round up – get ready! If you’ve won something – yay! – please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing address so I can coordinate receipt of your prize booty! The winners of the 8 ARCs of Julia Spencer-Fleming’s One was a Soldier are: Jeanne @ 8:49 am MsSarahB @ 10:23 am Shelley @ 11:20 am Diatryma @12:19 pm Charlie @ 3:07 pm Sheryl Nanus @ 5:27 pm The Duchess @ … Continue reading Winner Winner Winners!→
Are you breathlessly anticipating the next book in Julia Spencer-Fleming’s series? Curious to see how Clare and Russ survive her deployment? Well, over the past few months, Julia and I have been working on an interview (really, this email has been going back and forth for AWHILE) and she’s got 5 8 ARCs to give away this weekend. She’ll ship them out anywhere so you’ll get a copy zippy fast. Just leave a comment below … Continue reading One Was a Soldier: An Interview and Giveaway→
