Sleigh Bells Ring by RaeAnne Thayne Published by HQN Books on October 26, 2021 Genres: Christmas, Contemporary Romance, Small-town romance Pages: 341 Format: Kindle or ebook Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Audible | Chirp Add to Goodreads Also by this author: A Cold Creek Christmas Surprise, Snow Angel… December 30, 2021 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 2 ★★★½
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Clive Cussler, author of the popular Dirk Pitt alt-history thrillers, died Feb. 24, 2020, at the age of 88. His writing career spanned over… Read more »
Bookish News Nobel Prizes In Literature Go To Olga Tokarczuk And Peter Handke (NPR). The Guardian’s Alison Flood goes into more detail, particularly regarding the controversial choice of Peter Handke. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019. (The Guardian) The decision to break the rules and choose two… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Happy birthday to Beverly Cleary, who turned 103 on April 12! (Upworthy) Booksellers Announce First Annual Romance Bookstore Day to take place on August 17,… Read more »
There’s yet another plagiarism scandal. But this time, the plagiarist took on all the wrong people. (A News & Notes special edition) You do not want to anger Romancelandia; it will come after you. The story began on Monday, with a blog post from Courtney Milan announcing “Cristiane Serruya is a copyright infringer,… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Hamilton Mania Inspires the Library of Congress to Put 12,000 Alexander Hamilton Documents Online (Open Culture) School librarian rejects First Lady’s donation of… Read more »
I used to turn my nose up at romances on the theory — fueled by exposure to Harlequin and Silhouette series books when I worked in bookstores years ago — that they were formulaic, trite, and not very well written. The fact that they then were commonly referred to as… Read more »
The Chesapeake Shores novels by Sherryl Woods tell the romantic stories of various members of the O’Brien clan, a large, somewhat dysfunctional, but loyal Irish-American family living in the fictional Bay town of Chesapeake Shores. The characters are human, individual, and for the most part likeable; their family and romantic… Read more »
