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Unridden Rated Orgasmic by Just Erotic Romance Reviews

You can’t please everyone. That is what I tell myself anyway. Then, sometimes, a reader or a reviewer really gets it. T. S. Peters from Just Erotic Romance Reviews really got UNRIDDEN. This reviewer got Jenna the heroine, as well as the hero and the story, which means more than I can say because so much of me is in Jenna. The mediocre writer whose career is dictated by forces outside of her control, who takes reviews and criticism too much to heart, who’s been more than once forced to turn to strangers for help only to have them turn into more in her life.

The review is very long but more than worth the read, however I believe fair use laws only allow me to paste a bit of it here, not the entire thing. It can be found in full now in the JERR Newsletter (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/justeroticromancereviewsnewsletter/) available at their Yahoo group. It will eventually be posted at the JERR website, though there is usually a bit of a lag. (justeroticromancereviews.com)

JERR REVIEW SNIPPET FOR UNRIDDEN (STUDS IN SPURS, BOOK 1)

“This is a story about an erotic romance author whose reviewers and agents tell her that her writing is just average. She is told that if she wants to further her career she has to change her style. Although I am not normally into cowboys, just this premise alone sparked my interest and had me laughing my head off. I feel the need to warn readers that this is not a true ménage book. It is at its heart still a boy meets girl story. Girl just happens to leave her options open while she’s falling. …the sex (which there is a WHOLE LOT of) between them is amazing! I found it to be adventurous, passionate and very, very stirring… I would happily recommend this book to anyone, with full assurance that it would soon be on the keeper shelf.”

T.S. Peters, Just Erotic Romance Reviews (JERR)

Rated Five Stars: The reviewer found this book to have engaged all her reading senses. Well written, arousing, with well developed characters and plot line. There were no faults with this story, and considers it definitely worth re-reading

Heat Level Orgasmic!!! Our reviewer found the ultimate satisfaction with this book.

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Random Thoughts & a New Hot Cowboy Free Read Posted

Today I celebrate the posting of my new free short story, the one I wrote about Chase, one of the side characters in UNRIDDEN (Book 1, Studs in Spurs series). My short, 8 SECOND RIDE, is in the All Romance eBooks .com Wildfire Newsletter. I’ve posted the link below.

Today I also can’t help but ponder many things. There has been a firestorm of late in the romance industry, spurred by an RWA (Romance Writers of America) controversy regarding the legitimacy of ePublishing that encompasses both the authors and the publishers themselves. If you’re unaware of all the drama, count yourself lucky. I’ve spent far too much time and energy stressing about it myself. But I have to wonder, at a time when internet sources had been accurately reporting the death of Michael Jackson for hours while my respected ABC NY affiliate prime time TV news broadcast was still telling us he was only in a coma, when Twitter proved it could significantly affect a megagiant such as Amazon.com, when CA Governor Arnold has decreed CA’s textbooks will now be eBooks, how can any organization say that books delivered by the internet will NOT have a major place in the future of publishing? Yes, the argument circles about contracts and advances, ePublishing practices vs. NY. All I’m saying is, the future is here. Step up or be left behind.

To that end I will continue to happily straddle the fence, selling full length novels in paperback from both physical shelves in brick and mortar bookstores and online venues such as the aforementioned Amazon. I will also offer these paperbacks as eBook downloads in Kindle, ePub (for iPhone), PDF, HTML, Palm doc, etc. And using the amazing technology available to us today in the form of eReaders, eBook formats and delivery methods, I will also write and offer short stories only in eformat because unlike the RWA, there is room for both in my world.

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