Reviewed by PJ Ausdenmore

Anyone who talks to me for more than five minutes knows how much I love animals and anyone who visits RNTV knows how much I love romance.  Both of my dogs came to me from shelters and many of my favorite books feature dogs, cats or other animals that play pivotal roles in the lives of their humans.   When I heard that Lori Foster had gathered ten romance authors together to write an anthology featuring animals in each story I was ready to order a copy on the spot.  Then I heard the rest of the story and thought why stop at one copy?  All proceeds from the sales of Tails of Love will benefit the Animal Adoption Foundation (AAF), a no-kill animal shelter in Hamilton, Ohio.    Each…

Maria and I are getting excited about going to the BEA tomorrow! We’ll be attending many of the seminars and meeting up with some terrific authors and bloggers. Katibabs and Stacey will be there and we’re looking forward to  seeing them live and in person.  We’ll be staying up late to get you the news on what’s going on this year. From what I can gather thus far,  they’ll be lots of talk about the ‘digital revolution’ and its impact on the publishing houses, authors and readers.

We’re also getting ready to unveil our new site design. Fingers crossed,  we will be debuting the new look on June 1.

True Love and Other Disasters by Rachel Gibson
4.75 Stars
Reviewed by Stacey Agdern, romance reader and Ranger Fan

When they signed their deal with Harlequin, NASCAR noted that “40 percent of its estimated 75 million fans in the United States (were) women”.  But what about the NHL, where it is reported, that anywhere between 33 to 44 percent of its fan base is female.

What we do know is that there’s enough of a female fan base for the Washington Capitals to have formed the first official female NHL fan club.  It also seems there is enough of an understanding of female sports fandom in general to allow what I consider the very first ‘NHL’ Romance to be published.

Before she became part of the Harlequin-NASCAR alliance, Pamela Britton wrote a book about stock…

Review of Turning Japanese by Cathy Yardley
4.75 Star

At its core, Chick Lit is a genre of stories about young women and their ups and downs, told in a witty and brilliant first person voice.  They are both fun and thought provoking in equal parts.  The same goes for the best of shoujo manga.  They can be romantic stories, but they’re stories of dreamers and fighters, who happen to be young women.   So when I got the chance to review a book that promised to mix the two of them, I jumped at the chance.

Cathy Yardley’s ‘Turning Japanese’ is the story of a young woman who gets the chance of a lifetime.  Her manga is chosen as the winner of a contest where the prize is an internship at a Japanese…

Reviewed by Kati Dancy
Reprint/Publisher: Silhouette
It all started in 1983, at my parents’ beach house. I was 12, and bored through and through on the one rainy day we had during our beach vacation. My mom suggested I go to the book shelves where renters had left books behind to share, to see if I could find something to entertain me for the afternoon. It was there that I spotted my very first “grown-up” romance novel. Oh sure, I’d read “Fifteen” by Beverly Cleary and had of course read quite a few of the “Sweet Valley High” series. But this book, with its white cover featuring a gorgeous redheaded woman and a handsome man just behind her kissing her neck, this book that screamed out “romance”, was going to be my…

Most of you may like cats.  Some of you may even LOVE cats – but is your love of the feline so great that you’d follow one on Twitter?  Apparently there’s a large group of cat lovers who think so. Sockington the cat has over 1/2 million people following his every meow.  What does Sockington tweet about, well here are some of his recent ‘cat calls’.

reaching reaaaaaaching reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaching ALL RIGHT GOT IT PULLING IT OUT aggg lost it SIGH reaching reeeeeeeeeeeeaching

lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick OK CLEAN wait missed a spot lick lick lick

If you’re saving money these days – tune in to Sockington – it’s free entertainment.  Mark my words, someone will offer this cat a…