Posts Tagged ‘Books I Love’
September 1, 2010
1:45 pm • Filed under: Books I Love
I’ve been hearing about this book since Kody Keplinger sold it last year. Buzz buzz buzz – this book has generated plenty of it and all of it is positive.
I’m here to tell you the buzz is for reals, y’all. This book was excellent. I’m a little embarrassed to admit I read it in one sitting. It was that good. The main character is snarky and pissed off with real problems that she doesn’t want to deal with and I don’t blame her. The characters were drawn so realistically. I may be an old lady and it’s been a (long) while since I was in high school but I felt like I knew these people. Or that I’ve known people just like them.
Just because we’ve come a long way technology-wise doesn’t mean that we as basic humans have changed that much. I love reading a good YA book, especially a contemporary (Simone Elkeles, I’m looking at you) and I HIGHLY recommend this one.
And she was only 17 or 18 when she wrote it too. Which means Kody is my hero. I was writing at that age but never took it seriously. I really wish I would’ve…
Tags: Books I Love
October 22, 2009
12:50 am • Filed under: Books I Love,Home Life,Mom stuff
We’re going. Well, it’s not a real pumpkin patch but a place set up in a dirt lot across from McDonald’s with hay bales and giant slide rides and KETTLE KORN. Oh, whoops, I think I just gave away the true reason I want to go to that particular pumpkin patch…
I should probably only buy two (overpriced) pumpkins at that joint and then go across the street to the supermarket and buy some more for a better deal. Yeah that sounds like a plan. Then the two little munchkins get their pumpkin “patch” experience, Mom gets her Kettle Korn and then we go get cheaper pumpkins…
Did you know that my friends R.G. Alexander and Eden Bradley have new books out this week at Samhain? Vampire books? Oooh la la, go check ‘em out!
What are YOU up to today?
Tags: Books I Love, Home Life, Mom stuff
May 26, 2009
12:15 am • Filed under: Books I Love,Random
Is the above title even a word? Okay, first off, I watched Obsessed on A&E last night and wow, it was just so…interesting. Similar to Intervention but I’m sorry I just can’t watch Intervention because the majority of those people always end up back where they started and it depresses me.
But with Obsessed, these people seemed to truly want to help ease their OCD tendencies and it was just…fascinating to me. What pushed them over the edge, what helped them. I definitely will watch this again. Did you watch it? Tell me what you thought if you did.
In other news, uh, my kids are almost out of school. We’re going to visit my parents in mid-June. My cats are crazy. My dog won’t stop tearing up napkins and tissues with his teeth, leaving the shredded bits all over my floor. This means I could never be OCD about cleaning because to keep this place spotless and sterile would take every bit of energy I have and it wears me out just thinking about it.
Want to give a shout out to all of the people who stop by after Googling Adam Lambert. “Adam Lambert sneezing” was the latest one. I mean, yes, the man is cute but I haven’t heard anything special about his sneezing. “Adam Lambert erotica” was another one. Oh my, that puts a lot of naughty thoughts in my head yes indeed…
My friend Avery Beck’s book is out today! Sexy By Design at Samhain Publishing – it’s her first book published, so exciting! Congrats Avery! Oh and congrats to my good friend Crystal Jordan, too. Her book It’s Raining Men is available at Samhain today as well. I can’t help but have that song in my head every time I read that title…
And that’s my random blog post for the day! What’s going on with YOU?
Tags: Books I Love, Random
April 2, 2009
12:05 am • Filed under: Books I Love
Lookee what came via my friendly UPS guy yesterday:
Books galore! In all shapes and sizes (literally)! In all sorts of sub-genres! Almost half of them are written by people I consider friends (Eden Bradley, Annaliese Evans, Megan Hart & Lauren Dane) Though there is definitely a historical trend in this group…
Anywho, I’m not quite sure which one to start first. And I’m still wrapping up some revising/polishing projects. I need to finish post haste but ooh those books are sooooo tempting!
Bought any books lately?
Tags: Books I Love
November 6, 2008
2:01 am • Filed under: Books I Love
Is my friend. She was one of my first writing friends. I met her on the last day of the RWA conference in Reno back in 05. We decided to be critique partners. I read a couple of chapters for her that ended up placing in a HQ Blaze contest. I eventually critiqued the whole dang book…and then another book. And that book evolved quite a bit, many changes that I never saw. Now…
Here’s the book. And it’ll be available in stores this upcoming Monday! If you can’t wait you can go ahead and purchase the book over at eHarlequin. That’s what I did. Gotta show support for my girl…
Plus! Tracy is leading the most awesome workshop over at the eHarlequin forum. “Know The Market, Know Thyself” has come at a good time for me. This week I’ve been a little anxious. I read my stuff and wonder, “Is this good enough? Really good enough?” Her workshop is touching on some points that I haven’t thought about before.
And you don’t have to be interested in writing “just category” to get something from Tracy’s workshop. Go check it out, it’s worth it!
Tags: Books I Love, Pimpage
October 21, 2008
12:01 am • Filed under: Books I Love
I love contemporary romance books – it is definitely my most favorite genre to read (and write!). So when I hear the rumors that contemporary books are on a major decline, no one is buying them (readers and editors/publishers/agents), well that makes me sad.
Thanks to Dear Author and Smart Bitches, they’re out to save the contemporary romance genre by sponsoring a contest! They’re spreading the word about the latest contemporary book by Erin McCarthy, Flat Out Sexy.
Isn’t that cover flat out sex-ay? Ooh yeah – gotta get it! So help spread the contemporary love and enter the contest!
