This month’s TBR Challenge theme was RITA winning or RITA nominated books, in honor of this month’s RITA awards. Unfortunately, RITA winners and I don’t have a great track record. As I was skimming the lists, I recognized several books I absolutely loathed. Of course, I loved Carolyn Crane’s Off the Edge from last year
About six months ago, I got an email from romance writer Alexis Hall. He wanted to know if I’d consider developing a lemon meringue pie recipe for this kinky book he was writing about a chef and a doctor. Of course I agreed and therefore ended up helping with this book, For Real (out everywhere
I’m guest posting over at Read a Romance Month’s blog today, sharing some thoughts on food and romance, plus trying out a recipe from Brenda Novak’s new cookbook to raise funds for the American Diabetes Association. I made the crepes from the book and they turned out great. I also got a sneak
So this is a secret baby book. I hate secret baby books. HATE. I hate them so much that my review policies caution people against sending them to me. Except…I loved this secret baby book. Into the Shadows, the third book in Carolyn Crane’s Undercover Associates series, features undercover Associate Thorne, who isn’t really an
OMG A BEYOND BOOK WITH FOOD IN IT. Sorry, just had to get that out of my system right up front. I’ll explain in a bit. The Beyond series is a long-running Kit Rocha series and these aren’t standalone books so forgive me if you haven’t read any of them. You’ll just have to go
It’s TBR Challenge time again! This month’s theme was “Kickin’ it Old School”, which is most definitely not a problem for me as the vast majority of my TBR pile is acquired via used bookstores and thrift stores and it would be a rare book that isn’t more than ten years old. So I literally
If you still haven’t entered to win the Cooking Up Romance Blogiversary Week $50 Amazon gift card, you have just a couple more days! From a narrative perspective, I’ve always thought that a personal trainer would make an excellent romance dominant. I mean, you have this person whose job it is to push physical and
Don’t forget to enter the Cooking Up Romance Blogiversary Week Giveaway for a $50 Amazon Giftcard! Pretty much any romance involving a kinky bookseller is always going to get my vote. And if it’s by Charlotte Stein? Double vote! Can we vote twice? Whatever, I just did. Taken, a recent offering by Stein, features
Just popping in today to say that my monthly joint review with Alexis Hall is up at All About Romance today. We rave over Rose Lerner’s Sweet Disorder and, as I mentioned in our review, I just couldn’t get over how much amazing food is in it. I’ve already used it as inspiration for three
