Last Monday I woke up with a pain in the side of my back, that stabbed sharply when I breathed heavily. It hurt to raise my arm. As I had woken with it, I figured I’d slept funny, stressed a muscle or tendon, and that the pain would go away after a while. It got […]
International Excuse To Eat Pie Day Actually, it really is Pi Day – a worldwide celebration of everything mathematical. As a self-confessed anal geek, I can’t let the day pass without a mention. Even if it is to urge you to grab some pie and spare a thought for how mathematics shapes the world we live
I have been a shift leader at a Starbucks store, and I’ve trained baristas. I’ve learned how to “taste” coffee, and I figured I was pretty knowledgeable about coffee. We buy organic, free trade beans, grind them ourselves as we need them, and never put them in the freezer. Plus, we only buy the coffee a
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This is a perennial argument discussion in romance circles and the debate may never end, but let’s try to nail it down a bit better tomorrow. Do you like your books short? Or long? Or don’t care? How do you find romance novels these days? Too long? Too short? Did you know there are hidden factors
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It’s pretty common and far easier to think of the “Victorian Era” as one unchanging snapshot in time, where the women wore pretty things and the men were all gentlemen and lords. The Victorian era, though, lasted 64 years, from 20 June, 1837 until Queen Victoria’s death on 22 January, 1901. In that time, the world
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Hunting the Kobra came out last week, and I’m a little stunned at the reaction, which has been amazing: #69 in the Espionage Thrillers Hot New Releases. 4.9 Star review rating 54 reviews across all sites and booksellers. As it’s the first book in the series, I was nervous going into the release — one
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If you’ve read even a little King Arthur fiction, then you’ve probably noticed that every second companion and lord in King Arthur’s court is a king. Yet they’re all bending the knee for Arthur…who is also a king. So how does that work? Is it just more of the messy half-truths that got stuffed into
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I hesitated to write this post. On the one hand, Valentine’s Day is the epitome of marketing perfection. It wouldn’t be a day, if a bunch of marketers hadn’t pushed it in the first place, and marketers ever since haven’t leapt on it as the perfect excuse to push everything from card and roses to socks.
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New Kiss Across Time Book! More Time Kissed Moments is now available for pre-order everywhere! This is book 8.1 in the vampire menage time travel urban fantasy series (yes, really), Kiss Across Time. So today is both the cover reveal and the heads-up that it’s out. Where is Rafael? Rafael is missing, with not a trace
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Massive Romance Giveaway. Last Day! This one-weekend-only giveaway ends today. There is a massive (114 books, so far) giveaway happening on BookFunnel right now. It only lasts until Monday, so don’t wait. The giveaway includes all sub-genres of romance, and there are no sample chapters or partials — they’re all full books. Jump to the
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