REVIEW: The View was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
Dear Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, I wonder if your debut novel, The View was Exhausting, was published as romantic mainstream fiction. If so it’s a romance regardless. There’s a central love...
View ArticleREVIEW: Rebecca of Salerno by Esther Erman
This book continues the story of Rebecca from Walter Scott’s 1820 novel Ivanhoe. The Ivanhoe backstory: Jewish women in medieval England do not fall in love with Christian knights like Ivanhoe....
View ArticleREVIEW: The Ex-Wife: A Muslim Romance by Lyndell Williams
She wasn’t looking for love, but it found her. Zaynab flees a dysfunctional marriage, saving herself from an emotional breakdown. After two years of therapy overseas, she returns to reconnect with the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Paladin’s Hope by T. Kingfisher
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard’s investigations. It’s a peaceful, if solitary profession…until the day when he’s called to...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Anglophile by Dell Shannon (Egan O’Neill, Elizabeth Linington)
Ireland, 1749. Dennis McDermott, a witty, charming and daring young man with shades of the Scarlet Pimpernel, lives two lives in eighteenth-century Dublin. Fashionable society idolises him as a...
View ArticleREVIEW: Wendy of the Wallops: The Wallops Book 2 by Gill McKnight
There are worrying times ahead for Wallops valley community police officer Wendy Goodall. As part of a witness protection task force, she volunteers for the Girl Guides to ensure the safety of Lexi, a...
View ArticleMonday News: On Columbus, Yahoo is anti-male?; we are all Tsundoku; and best...
Use This New Book Excerpt to Shut Down the Fake Heroism of Christopher Columbus – Do they still teach US school kids the rhyme that starts, “In fourteen-hundred-and-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the...
View ArticleTuesday News: 100th Pulitzer Prizes, wine train book club settles suit,...
100th Pulitzer prizes announced – Journalism awards, in particular, stood out this year, with the Los Angeles Times winning for their breaking coverage of the San Bernadino shooting, and digital media...
View ArticleTuesday News: Book club lawsuit; millennial sex and romance; National Book...
Lawyer for booted book club says women considering lawsuit against Napa Valley Wine Train – The Sistahs of the Reading Edge Book Club are considering a lawsuit for racial discrimination against the...
View ArticleWednesday News: AU v. Amazon; Wine Train apologizes to book club; Knopf...
Is Amazon Creating a Cultural Monopoly? – As much as I admire the tenacity of the Authors United group, their singular fixation on Amazon feels more and more like publisher pressure by proxy. I...
View ArticleMonday News: The Turtles’s copyright case, discrimination suit against...
Copyright land grab by The Turtles threatens digital music, will not help young musicians – You may or may not be familiar with the 1970’s pop group, The Turtles, and their legal victory against...
View ArticleThursday News: Facebook apologizes for “fake name” snafu, E-books and...
Facebook’s chief product officer apologizes to the LGBTQ community – Facebook CPO Chris Cox penned what appears to be a pretty earnest and humble apology for discriminating against LGBTQ users by...
View ArticleMonday News: On Columbus, Yahoo is anti-male?; we are all Tsundoku; and best...
Use This New Book Excerpt to Shut Down the Fake Heroism of Christopher Columbus – Do they still teach US school kids the rhyme that starts, “In fourteen-hundred-and-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the...
View ArticleTuesday News: 100th Pulitzer Prizes, wine train book club settles suit,...
100th Pulitzer prizes announced – Journalism awards, in particular, stood out this year, with the Los Angeles Times winning for their breaking coverage of the San Bernadino shooting, and digital media...
View ArticleTuesday News: Book club lawsuit; millennial sex and romance; National Book...
Lawyer for booted book club says women considering lawsuit against Napa Valley Wine Train – The Sistahs of the Reading Edge Book Club are considering a lawsuit for racial discrimination against the...
View ArticleWednesday News: AU v. Amazon; Wine Train apologizes to book club; Knopf...
Is Amazon Creating a Cultural Monopoly? – As much as I admire the tenacity of the Authors United group, their singular fixation on Amazon feels more and more like publisher pressure by proxy. I...
View ArticleMonday News: The Turtles’s copyright case, discrimination suit against...
Copyright land grab by The Turtles threatens digital music, will not help young musicians – You may or may not be familiar with the 1970′s pop group, The Turtles, and their legal victory against...
View ArticleThursday News: Facebook apologizes for “fake name” snafu, E-books and...
Facebook’s chief product officer apologizes to the LGBTQ community – Facebook CPO Chris Cox penned what appears to be a pretty earnest and humble apology for discriminating against LGBTQ users by...
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