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Poll: Author Behavior and Your Buying Decisions

The way I see it the Internet community amounts to a workplace for romance authors. Every single reader who hangs out in Romancelandia is a potential customer for the books authors want to sell. Few of…

Pet Choices

We have a new addition to our family – a little black lab named Millie.  I say she’s little, but she’s already reached 34 pounds at 3 1/2 months of age.  She’s precious and smart and…

Speaking of Audiobooks: July 2010 Releases

Challenging myself earlier this year to listen to a number of those romance audiobooks I tend to avoid due to their category, I’m scoring very well with my Unofficial Personal Listening Challenge for 2010.  Results to…

My TBR List

I don’t have a TBR pile; I have a TBR list.  Part of the reason is monetary in nature – I simply don’t have the finances or inclination to buy books I’ve only heard are good…

Has the Ebook Reader Changed my Reading Habits?

When I bought my first eBook reader, an Opus, in December, I felt both like a pioneer – eBook readers are not at all common in Germany yet, and I’d only seen one in the flesh…

Germany 4 England 1

Okay, so I’ll try to keep the gloating to a minimum. What an afternoon that was! Matches between Germany and England are always something else, and this surely didn’t disappoint! All goals (including the one that…

Stormy Weather

For the last month, we’ve had a real rash of stormy weather. No, not that lovely old song, but real stormy weather. Now I don’t mean gentle rain or light breezes. I mean torrential downpours, terrifying…

Avon Giveaway Winner

Heather W is the randomly selected lucky winner of the Avon ARC and Vera Bradley bag giveaway. We thank our friends at Avon for putting together such a cool prize package to help us celebrate the…

Online Organization: One More Thing I Need to Do

Since it’s summer, I have time to do some things I don’t always get around to during the school year and, while my husband often calls it wasting time, I call it a better way to…