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Wicked Game by J. Smith-Ready

30 April 2008 Jackie 7

So it all started with a really great blog. That’s how I found Jeri Smith-Ready. I never even knew who she was until one of my authors was interviewed by her. When I got to her site, I started reading and found a lot of interesting stuff. Then one day, […]

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Chat with Anya Bast

30 April 2008 Jackie 0

Anya Bast will be participating in an online chat hosted by Writerspace today at 9pm. She’ll also be joined by Lauren Dane and Jodi Lynn Copelandand. They will be discussing their new anthology What Happens in Vegas, which is now available (or so I’m told). Here’s a snippet of the […]

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AZ Challenge & 1st in Series

29 April 2008 Jackie 9

I’m actually becoming a sucker for challenges. I’m starting two of them, but I’m picking books off of my TBR so it shouldn’t be too hard. Well, it’s a little hard for one of them. The first challenge is “1st in series”. The idea is to read the first novel […]

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Weekly Geeks #1 – Discovering New Blogs

29 April 2008 Jackie 3

So I’ve joined a couple of different reading challenges – 50 Books (Authors) in 2008, Herding Cats, and the Numbers Challenge – and I’m including one more. This one is a little different. It’s actually a blogging challenge and each week there will be a new blogging theme. This weeks […]

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It’s Release Day!

29 April 2008 Jackie 2

Today two books I’ve been waiting for are out. Keri Arthur’s The Darkest Kiss and Jeaniene Frost’s One Foot in the Grave. I’ve already pre-ordered them through Barnes & Noble, so they should be here soon, but I can’t wait to get my hands on them. These are two authors […]

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Queen of the Darkness by A. Bishop

25 April 2008 Jackie 1

I’ve finished the final novel, Queen of the Darkness, in Anne Bishops’ Black Jewels trilogy and all I can say is wow. My face was just streaked with tears over the ending and I was riveted to the plot line as it zoomed to its ending. The individual personalties of […]

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Heir to the Shadows by A. Bishop

23 April 2008 Jackie 1

Oh my god! I have a 14 month old son and I just finished a 482 in one day. If you haven’t figured it out yet, I could not put this novel down. Heir to the Shadows, the second novel in Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels trilogy, was amazing. There wasn’t […]

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Frost & Showalter Interviews

23 April 2008 Jackie 1

Marta Acosta did an interview with Jeaniene and it’s posted on her blog. She talks about her new novel, One Foot in the Grave, which comes out next Tuesday. The interview doesn’t just focus on the book either. Jeaniene gives us some insight into her world, who did the cover […]

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Daughter of the Blood by A. Bishop

22 April 2008 Jackie 2

So I’m starting Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels trilogy and so far I am hooked. The first novel, Daughter of the Blood begins developing all of the characters and they are fantastic. We have the classic good vs. evil characters, but their individual personalities are so different, yet share some common […]

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Plum Lucky by J. Evanovich

21 April 2008 Jackie 0

So I finally got around to reading Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich. Yet again, Stephanie finds herself dealing with yet another unbelievable problem that also happens to involve one of the sexy men in her life. Granted, we really don’t see much of Diesel in the main novels, but he […]