Thursday, February 13, 2025
Book Love Challenge
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Weigh In Wednesday
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Most Anticipated Releases Tuesday February 11, 2025
Audio ARC Review: Honkers Under the Holly (The Cocky Kingsmans #4.5) by Amy Award
I didn’t plan to pretend to be in love with the gorgeous plus size model who rescued a goose from the chopping block at Oktoberfest. But when Sir Honksalot destroys her apartment and my parents sell their shop right before Christmas, a fake engagement seems like the perfect solution to our mutual housing woes.
Now we’re house-sitting a mansion together, but confined to one room...with only one bed. We have to convince everyone we’re the most boring couple in L.A., while dealing with a delinquent waterfowl with a sock-stealing habit and feelings that don’t feel fake at all.
This curvy girl romance features a bad-tempered rescue goose with his own social media following, a sports agent who’s secretly a romantic at heart, and a baddie plus-size model who knows her worth – all set in a prequel to the everyone’s favorite football family, the Kingmans.
Monday, February 10, 2025
ARC Review: You Between The Lines by Katie Naymon
No one’s more surprised than Leigh when a prestigious MFA program in North Carolina accepts her. A former sorority girl, Leigh’s the first to admit she knows more about the lyrics of Taylor Swift than T.S. Eliot, and she’s never been able to shake the “all-style-no-substance” feedback her high school crush made in their poetry workshop. Bad enough that her tattooed, New Yorker tote bag-carrying classmates have read all the right authors and been published in the country's leading literary journals, Leigh's insecurities become all too real when Will, that same high school crush-turned-nemesis, shows up at orientation as a first-year in the program, too. And now, he’s William, exactly the kind of writer Leigh hates, complete with his pretentious sweater vests and tattered Moleskine.
Leigh’s determined to prove herself—and William—wrong by landing the program’s highly-coveted fellowship. But Will’s dead-set on it, too, and in a small cohort, they can't keep apart for long. When Will submits an intimate poem (that's maybe, probably, definitely about Leigh) to workshop, they’re both forced to realize there’s more to the other than what’s on the page. And what’s between the lines may be even more interesting.
Expected Publication Date: February 18, 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
Fat Stack Friday Book Haul February 7, 2025
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Most Anticipated Releases Tuesday February 4, 2025
Monday, February 3, 2025
ARC Review: Celebrity Crush by Christy Switft
Author Emmy Ellison is a sucker for a page-turning happy ending, but she’s no longer counting on one for herself. If she stays focused on her career goals instead of her love life, she just might find success. And now that her latest novel is about to become a movie, she’s determined to become the latest social media sensation.
Enter her plan for her secret celebrity crush, the real-life inspiration for her romantic hero. When he accepts the starring role in the big-screen adaptation of her book, she’s determined to team up with a fake dating scheme—now that he’s in need of some good PR of his own. Ideally, she can ride the wave of popularity all the way to the top of the bestseller lists. But when the harsh spotlight of fame exposes the truth, will they try to turn their on-camera chemistry into a real-life relationship?
I’m Christy Swift and this is my landing space. I write geeky love stories, sometimes as smexy romcoms and sometimes as sci-fi with a little heat in the engine coil. I daylight as a freelance writer and social media content provider for medical and technology clients across the country. I’m also editor of the award-winning Heartland LIVING magazine and run the creative writing club at my daughters’ high school.
I’m represented by Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong of the Marsal Lyons Agency for my rom-coms and Bonnie Swanson of FinePrint Literary for my sci-fi/fantasy (written under the pen name C.P. Swift).
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