Happy New Year everyone. I thought I would kick things off by participating in a blog tour – regardless of which side I’m on, I find them fun – which is perfect timing for Meg Macy’s MM romance book out, Love is Love book one: All You Need is Love. Longtime friends Jack Riley and Juliette (aka Jules) Baxter are now partners in a new breakfast café, but they are surprised to be confronted by…
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Earlier this year, I travelled from Auckland to the United Kingdom to attend Shimmer and RARELondon25 and I promise I will share details about the events in a later post. .For tonight, however, I want to tell you how I survived the trip there and back. Auckland to the UK via Shanghai and Amsterdam (and then same route back the other way ten days later) meant 12 hours in the air, followed by 8 hours…
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It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of Shaw Montomery and their alter-ego MA Innes. What I am not such a huge fan of is shifter romances – absolutely no shade to those who do love the sub-genre, it’s just not generally my thing. There are a few notable exceptions, namely Amy Bellows’ penguins, polar bears, foxes, and of course her fabulous Expensive, not to mention Drea Roman’s The Selkie’s Coat. I am…
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As part of the blog tour I was lucky enough to receive an ARC (Advance Reader Copy) of R.L. Merrill’s You Can Do Magic. There’s a little something for everyone in this book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The book is part of the multi-author Carnival of Mysteries Series. Now don’t worry, you don’t have to have read the rest of the series for this one to make sense – but what’s the fun in…
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The other day, while drinking coffee, I was thinking that writing is a lot like exercise. If you get out of shape you have to rebuild muscle and fitness in order to get back to the level you’d previously been at. I am currently trying to get in shape – well get fit – so I’m hitting the treadmill, the yoga mat, and a few free weights here and there. I’ve also let my writing…
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