Holly: Over the last few days, the blogging world has blown up over a plagiarism scandal. I first learned about it from the Smart Bitches website. After following the yellow link road, I was appalled and frustrated by what I was seeing. I’ll let you visit the SB site, or Grit and Glamour and Beautifully […]
Holly: Jackie (aka Insane Hussein) put up a copy of a review contact Aziza Publishing, a company I’ve never heard of before, is making their authors send out when requesting reviews from bloggers. The idea of a review contract isn’t too bad when taken on its own, but the fine print is enough to make […]
If you’re a book blogger like me then you probably have more books to read than you know what to do with. You come across loads of review requests in your email that you can’t say no to, you see books that you’re itching to get your hands on through NetGalley and you click on […]
I recently read a contemporary romance novel where the heroine was 30 and desperate to get married. When I say desperate, I mean desperate enough to pay a matchmaker $1500 to set her up with her one true love. Only the matchmaker died, so her grandson had taken over the business. And naturally the grandson […]
Do you know your romance heroes? In this case they are heroes from historical and contemporary books but then, there are so many books to choose from! DIK Lady Sidney Kay from Kay’s Blog is over at DIK today and she’s got a fun quiz about romance heroes. Check it out and see if you […]