Happy holidays and happy almost-new-year, folks! Candy and I are going to be away at separate times so you’ll get our answers at different times, but I’m looking for your replies to our year-end survey. I don’t care who had the most brutal celebrity break-up or who was best or worst dressed.
2005 will certainly be remembered for a variety of reasons, not the least of which as the year of the birth of this here web site, and the year in which my awareness of good romance authors expanded to include some great writers, both current and backlist.
But what are your memorable books and reads of the year? Let’s hear it:
Best author you discovered this year (Ok, you can name up to 3)
Best new book you read this year (again, top 3)
Book you wish you’d skipped over and spent that $9 on a pair of Payless shoes instead.
Book off your keeper shelf most likely to be read in 2006
What book coming out in 2006 are you most looking forward to? (Feel free to -gasp!- pimp your own, but please don’t link as the HTML often wonks the comments)
Best cover?
Worst Cover?
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Sadly, many of the anthologies with 3-5 authors create short stories or novellas with existing characters. I don’t know how interesting, or how enjoyable they’ll be as stand alones without the requisite background information. I rarely read any novella in…
That’s fantastic!
I was just thinking about how influential your site is to readers like myself. I have picked up several authors and bought their books, when I would have never thought about them before based on your…
From Novak Auction Update
I really think that the cover for The Civilisation Game could be adapted for use for the next Anita blake novel—scantily clad woman with handgun dominates weird beast-man crouching subserviently at her feet. And you know what they say about…
Green Porno is very disturbing. I think what was freaky is she plays all the male insect parts. Or maybe because she is deadly serious… Very very strange
“so I saw all the hand movements and the penis wag at the end.”
That should be “so, unfortunately, I saw all the hand movements and the penis wag at the end without any musical accompaniment.”
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