review
November 16, 2009
- Thank you, Armenian Odar (aka Myrthe), my wonderful blogger fan in Yerevan, who reads large stacks of books and reviews them with great insight. I'm so pleased you saw fit to mention my book again in your blog today.
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November 15, 2009
- I've added links to all the latest reviews and interviews to my Red Room page. Visit www.conqueringvenus.blogspot.com to keep up with all things Venus.
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November 13, 2009
- I'm thrilled that Lisa enjoyed the book. I'm very heartened by the obvious care and time she took over the review. I am very grateful for all the reviews the book has received, that people I don't know feel it's worth their time to read it and discuss it.It is becoming an increasing source of amusement to me that the one consistent quibble reviewers seem to have about WOTM is over the sex scene ...
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November 3, 2009
- I was delighted to see yesterday that A Dangerous Man is one of the Recommended Reads for November on the Jessewave Review site – thank you so much. That’s cheered me greatly! Mind you, I’m rather miffed that Amazon UK are still insisting that the book is temporarily out of stock even though my publisher tells me that’s not true. Is it because it’s GLBT fiction and from a British ...
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November 2, 2009
- The varnished, wooden boat with curtained windows pulls up to the dock, and the handsome driver offers me his hand as I step into the boat. “Buon giorno, Signora,” he says, “Please...” and he gestures toward the boat’s empty seats. Sitting in the back with the wind blowing through my hair, I feel like a starlet being whisked away to my secluded Venetian hideaway as the sun sets behind ...
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November 1, 2009
- War on the Margins was reviewed in the Daily Mail a few weeks ago (not in their online version; the print review is reproduced here). I'm happy their reviewer liked it, but now I feel I need to take pains to disassociate myself from any perceived link to their columnist's homophobia.The book is selling well in Waterstone's, especially their Jersey store, which is very exciting. I have a ...
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October 23, 2009
- I expected to have an hour alone in a coffee shop today. So, as I left the house, I reached to my teetering tower of reproachfully neglected books-for-review and grabbed Liesl Jobson's 'View from an Escalator' to keep me company. Such good company it was! I think a good poet is one who has something to say and is able to say it well. If I were to try and make a formula for poetry it might ...
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October 18, 2009
- Tana French has written a wonder of a book. A writer’s dream. Many accolades. Many stellar reviews. Prizes. Bestsellerdom. All thoroughly well-deserved in my eyes. So why should I feel an overpowering need to spring to her defense? Having just finished IN THE WOODS, I clicked onto reader reviews on the Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites and was totally unprepared for ...
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October 14, 2009
- I am a gardener and the title of this chapbook grabbed me right away. But first thing I did before reading Mariss Everitt's poems, was to open the book at the middle, fold it out flat and turn it over so I could see the whole of the quilt that covers its front and half the back. The quilt, A full bed of roses, is one of the most beautiful designs I've seen in quite a while and were my ...
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October 13, 2009
- This means a lot to me, since it comes from an organization of independent mystery booksellers. They select a few books a month to promote, and The Gatekeeper was one of them!Here's the review, and a link to it:http://www.killerbooks.org/Who better to pick the best mystery books of the month than the people who run mystery bookstores?Each month, the 40-odd quirky stores that make up IMBA submit ...
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