Good news for those Julie Garwood fans that would like to add some of her older books onto their Kindle eReaders. The books "The Lion's Lady", "Ransom" and "Rebellious Desire" and all available for pre-order for .99 cents each. Hurry because I don't know how long this offer will last. Unfortunately these can not be ordered from the Books & Chat store but from Amazon only.
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Do you have an author or series you enjoy and you're dying to tell others about it? Have you come across a newer author that you think others would be interested in? Here's your chance to share it. Send a message to Cathy and include the author's name and/or the series, a short blurb about it, what you like about it, and if possible who, or what other series you would compare it to. Submissions will be posted under Cathy's Corner.
Book Gossip
If you like the Sookie Stackhouse series (True Blood) by Charlaine Harris, you might be interested to know about her companion book. The Sookie Stackhouse Companion Book is coming out Feb 1, 2011. Don't have much information on it yet (and booksellers don't have the cover posted yet), but according to the large cover on Charlaine's website, it contains a new novella, as well as an interview with Alan Ball. More information will be shared as it becomes available.
One of the Reason's I'm Loyal to Amazon
Here is a little story that cements what I feel about Amazon and how they treat their customers.
I pre-ordered Divine Misdemeanors and when It came I realized I ordered the wrong thing, I had ordered the CD's instead of the book. I hadn't checked the Amazon order follow up e-mail that came (my bad!) I tried to make arrangements to return then but I was having trouble printing the labels I would need to send them back for credit. I re-ordered the book that night and added cash for over night shipping, we had a snow storm but my shipment was still going to come that day so I waited and waited and waited and finally around 6pm I tracked the order for the 53rd time and found out it had been delivered to my doorstep at 5:09 WRONG!!!!! No foot steps in the snow to prove that it had been delivered to me either! Well to make a long story short, I'll leave out the heated (actually tepid) conversation I had with an Amazon gentleman I had that night. Although he did his very best to help me, but it's UPS's problem at that point.
The next day I called Amazon again, and got this wonderful young lady---I explained the sequence of events and I told her I would be buying it (the book) for my Kindle. She understood and sympathized and went ahead and credited my account for the book, AND the shipping and told me that if it did show up I was to keep it with their compliments. Also when I explained about the CD fiasco she (without me knowing) went ahead and had UPS personally deliver me a sticker for the box!
WOW!
Well guess what? It showed up yesterday in my mailbox! Apparently whoever it was delivered to dropped it off. So I have my Kindle edition and the hardcover!
I know that you all know that there are book series that cater to just about anything, and I just found a new one that caters to my obsession with coffee. Have any of you read the "Coffee House Mysteries" by Cleo Coyle yet? I have just picked up my very first one and to add to my pleasure it's a holiday mystery called "Holiday Grind". Ah, mystery and coffee. What great things to curl up with on a cold winters night. There are 8 books so far in the Coffehouse Mystery series.
By the way Cleo also writes another cozie style mystery series set in a bookshop. These are called "The Haunted Bookshop Mysteries" but they are written under her pen name of Alice Kimberly. I haven't read any of these yet, but I think I will be adding them to my Christmas Wish List! Santa Claus IS going to come to my house this year isn't he? I've been a good girl!!!
Did it ever occur to any of us 10 or 15 years ago that the paranormal or speculative fiction genre was going to be such a success? As for me I thought it might be a flash in the pan. Here today and gone tomorrow, And now I am seeing a huge rise in books being written about the Tuatha De Danann or the Sidhe as they've become to be know. what is it about such otherworldly creatures that is so fascinating to us?
My first experience with the Sidhe or the Fae ( fairy, faery, fey etc) was reading Laurell K. Hamilton's "Merry Gentry" serie.s Then came Karen Marie Moning's Fever series and now even Anya Bast is throwing her hat into the ring with her series debut on January 5th " Wicked Enchantment" , part of the Dark Magick series. Anya Bast may be best know for the Erotica novels she wrote for Ellora's Cave the premier publisher of women's erotica. I can't wait to see how the first book is and how it will compare to the others authors in this genre.
