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Here Be Dragons
Shane Taylor is playing with fire. The lawyer renegotiating the contract with his playersā union is sexy, smart ā and her brother owns his teamās biggest rival. Oh, and he already slept with her. Is it wrong to want more?
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Safe Harbor!
I canāt believe it, but I just published by fourth book! Four! And this crazy journey all started with a Captain Swan AU I decided to rewrite and publish as an original novel. So crazy. Itās been awhile since I last published a book so sorry itās taken a bit, but I hope the wait was worth it. And holy crap, amazing betas @spartanguard and @ultraluckycatnd were amazing. Hope you guys like this one!
Ryan McCloud just wanted to stay in a cottage on Harbor Lake to give himself a mental reset after a heartbreaking loss in the playoffs. He didnāt expect to find a woman he actually knew staying in the quaint cabin next door. He wanted to forget everything about his life in Detroit, but now that Lucy was so close, he couldnāt keep his mind off of her. Sure, Lucy Evans knew a Detroit Pirate, but that was only because he lived next door to her best friend in an amazing building in the city. Seeing Ryan without a shirt on in a cottage up north? Well, that made her think things she hadnāt before about the immature hockey player and his muscular body, especially after he has his way with her on his kitchen counter. But things change when they have to face the real world in Detroit, and it wonāt be easy to overlook their differences anymore. Will Lucy be able to get over the fact that this Detroit Pirate may not be mature enough for a relationship with her? And can Ryan prove that heās worthy of the love of a smart and sophisticated lawyer?
Available on Amazon for $2.99 (less than the cost of a pumpkin spice latte)
And Buried Treasure is on sale on Amazon for only 99 cents!
For the Captain on sale!
Hey, everyone! In case you didnāt pick upĀ āFor the Captainā already, itās on sale for a limited time!
Jordan King is known as the most eligible bachelor in the Motor City, especially now that he's been named the captain of the legendary Detroit Pirates. But Jordan realizes the title carries with it a new-found sense of responsibility. He needs to be a leader if he wants the team to win it all this season, which means leaving behind his reputation as a partying ladies' man. Charlotte Stone is a best-selling author and Manhattan socialite who is sick of the city. She's determined to live somewhere different that doesn't include being a guest star on her mother's reality show. But places like London or Los Angeles would just be more of the same. Then she hears about a building renovation project in Detroit and decides a move to somewhere completely unexpected is exactly what she needs. What Charlotte doesn't need is another hockey player in her life. Two years ago, she dated the biggest pest in the league who ended up breaking her heart. So why is she trying to find excuses to see the all-star captain of the Pirates? And how did she become the only woman who could derail Jordan's plan to win it all?
āIn romance novels, the woman always wins.ā
Saw someone say this this morning. And if that isnāt the best reason to enjoy romance novels, then I donāt know what is.
(And before anyone starts in with any condescending derision, lemme ask you the last detective novel you read where the detective didnāt āwinā by solving the case. Iāll waitā¦)
Yo Ho Ho
This is live, everyone! For less than the cost of an egg nog latte, you can read the latest in my Detroit Pirates series ā and itās a Christmas novel! Buy it here on Amazon and leave a review if you like it.
Maxine Quinn loved her job covering the Detroit Pirates for the cityās oldest newspaper. She still got excited to interview players, attend games, and have her stories show up on the front page of the Detroit Herald. Max also prided herself on her professionalism ā except for that time a year ago when she had a one-night stand with the teamās star defenseman.
Logan Moore was one of the best defensive players in the league. It earned him the respect of his teammates and the phone numbers of Detroitās single women. But there was one woman he couldnāt get out of his mind. Max told him their night together was a mistake that should never be repeated, and he grudgingly accepted her decision, although he wouldāve gladly made that mistake over and over again if her work ethics hadnāt been in the way.
But Maxās world is falling apart after the managing editor announced the newspaper is shutting down for good. She only has a few weeks to do the best reporting sheās ever done while maybe reconsidering her ban on having Logan return to her bed. But as she looks towards her uncertain future, if she has to decide between pursuing her writing or the man she wants, the choice may not be so easy.
Yo Ho Ho
This is live, everyone! For less than the cost of an egg nog latte, you can read the latest in my Detroit Pirates series ā and itās a Christmas novel! Buy it here on Amazon and leave a review if you like it.
Maxine Quinn loved her job covering the Detroit Pirates for the cityās oldest newspaper. She still got excited to interview players, attend games, and have her stories show up on the front page of the Detroit Herald. Max also prided herself on her professionalism ā except for that time a year ago when she had a one-night stand with the teamās star defenseman.
Logan Moore was one of the best defensive players in the league. It earned him the respect of his teammates and the phone numbers of Detroitās single women. But there was one woman he couldnāt get out of his mind. Max told him their night together was a mistake that should never be repeated, and he grudgingly accepted her decision, although he wouldāve gladly made that mistake over and over again if her work ethics hadnāt been in the way.
But Maxās world is falling apart after the managing editor announced the newspaper is shutting down for good. She only has a few weeks to do the best reporting sheās ever done while maybe reconsidering her ban on having Logan return to her bed. But as she looks towards her uncertain future, if she has to decide between pursuing her writing or the man she wants, the choice may not be so easy.
Buy it on Amazon or add it to your KU reading list!
Yo Ho Ho
Maxine Quinn loved her job covering the Detroit Pirates for the cityās oldest newspaper. She still got excited to interview players, attend games, and have her stories show up on the front page of the Detroit Herald. Max also prided herself on her professionalism ā except for that time a year ago when she had a one-night stand with the team's star defenseman.
Logan Moore was one of the best defensive players in the league. It earned him the respect of his teammates and the phone numbers of Detroit's single women. But there was one woman he can't get out of his mind. Max told him their one night together was a mistake that should never be repeated, and he grudgingly accepted her decision. He would've gladly made that mistake over and over again if her work ethics hadn't been in the way.
But Maxās world is about to fall apart. During a road trip with the team, her editors back home announced the newspaper is shutting down for good. She only has a few weeks to do the best reporting sheās ever done while maybe reconsidering her ban on having Logan return to her bed. But when she has to decide between pursuing her writing or the man she wants, the choice may not be so easy.
(cover by Jacqueline Sweet Design)
Coming soon! Just in time for the holidays!
Have you read Buried Treasure yet? Did you like it enough to write a review about it on Amazon? It would be appreciated!
And if you havenāt read it yet, itās cheap and fun and has gorgeous hockey boys in it! Buy it on Amazon or read on Kindle Unlimited. And if youāre an Amazon Prime member, you can read one KU for free every month as part of your membership so go ahead and read this!
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Contemporary series second runner up, Washington Romance Writers' Marlene Contest (2016)
Sydney Barton had a good life with a nice apartment and a great job. Then she went to work one day and found out her boss had embezzled millions of dollars from his clients, leaving her with no career and no future. Sydney never saw it coming and realizes there's no way she will ever trust anyone again, professionally or personally. Then Andy Mitchell showed up at her door. Andy enjoyed his job as the trainer for the Detroit Pirates for the most part, except for mornings like the one when the team's rookie sensation collapsed in the locker room with a rebellious appendix. With Ryan McCloud on the injured reserved list, it's up to Andy to get started on a recovery plan. If Andy had just remembered the keys to Ryan's apartment, he would've never knocked on the door of the rookie's neighbor, Sydney. But now that he has, can Sydney and Andy put their trust in one another when it's so hard for each of them to remember what that means?
Buy it on Amazon or add it to your KU reading list!
Coming soon!
(and get the first book of the Detroit Pirates series if you donāt have it yet)
Itās INSANE to me how controversial romance novels are. Romance novels. Like, being openly a fan of them immediately opens you up to people constantly coming at you like ābut donāt you think itās ~limiting- and ~juvenile~ to have a genre of books with happy endings for women?ā
Like.
No?
Why is it such a big deal to want to read stories where women have sex and then donāt die at the end? Jesus Christ.
Why is the concept of female characters being happy seen as less creative than female characters suffering? (Trust me, creating a world where women win in the end takes a lot more creativity and artistic vision lmfao)
Anyway, literary bros will pry my romance novels with their happy endings from my cold dead fingers.
Or die in the very beginning of the book. But no one calls out James Patterson for writing another formulaic thriller in which a woman is horrifically killed after getting laid and then some man solves her murder. Every. Damn. Time.
But hey, those romance novels where women get happy endings are so limiting, eh?
This whole Bridgerton series thing has got me thinking, like a lot. What if the series blows up more than anyone was expecting? What if this opens the doors for other romance novels to get adapted into streaming service series?! Could you imagine the wallflowers being a series too?! I could scream just thinking about it.
All of this rambling begs the question: What romance novel, whether it be a series, historical or contemporary, would you like to see adapted into a live action series?
A sports romance series, preferably hockey. Iām not too picky about which one though. I just wish there were some good sports romance TV shows out there! There are shows with sports and shows with romance, but the two rarely intersect.
I mean, look at this photo manip that @spartanguard did for my book! Donāt you want to see that on TV?
@the-kings-pancakes
Insisting on happy endings isnāt about denying innovation. The genre innovates and grows constantly.
But the happy ending is a tenant of the genre and has been since the beginning. Itās not some tired trope that can be inverted or subverted. Itās a fundamental facet of the genre. Like the magic in fantasy, or advanced technology in sci-fi. There are just somethings that are the hallmarks of a genre. For the romance one of those hallmarks is the happy ending.
If I doesnāt end happily it just isnāt a romance novel.
Whatās more, calling the addition of sad endings to the genre āinnovationā smacks of the criticism romance too often recieves for being āunrealisticā or ātoo optimisticā. Our novels are considered to be less valuable, and are disdained as useless fluff or trash because we donāt embrace the way āthings really areā. Theyāre dismissed as silly love stories that supposedly distort our perceptions of reality. Donāt we know that things just donāt work out like that in really life?
Yeah. We do. But what they donāt understand is that forcing unhappy or tragic endings into a genre that is devoted to optimism and hope is anathema to romance readers and writers. Thereās enough of that kind of ārealityā in other genres. Thatās not why we read romances.
So this isnāt about stalling out the genreās growth. It evolves every year.
This is about what makes a romance. Which is not defined by some arbitrary set of rules we just make up exexclude people from our sandbox. What makes a romance has been defined by the desires and expectations of generations of readers and writers.
Getting writers to understand that is for their own good as well. Because if you market a tragedy as a romance because you want to āinnovateā the genre? All its going to get you is bad reviews, angry readers, and poor sales.
One of the problems with this perception of how happy endings are somehow limiting for romance novels is that it so often comes from people who donāt read them. So thereās this failure to see that innovation within romance is about how you get your characters to their unique happy endings. The rules provide the innovation. āHow do you innovate within this structureā is a much harder challenge than ādo whatever you want,ā especially when the ādo whatever you wantā side of things is the culturally approved one that is āgoodā and āliterary.ā
And of course, itās not like love stories that end sadly or without that emotional satisfaction cannot be published. Me Before You was a runaway bestseller and a successful movie. So was The Fault in Our Stars. Love stories that end sadly are published frequently. They just arenāt romance novels.
Not to mention the inherent misogyny in thinking that womenās happiness is somehow less mature or enlightened than womenās suffering.
Happy ending for women ā> tragic ending for women isnāt progress.
Womenās suffering isnāt innovative. Itās the status quo.
Why does it have to be a tragedy for it to beĀ āinnovationā? Thereās lots of other ways you can innovate that donāt have to be that. Iāve read enough bad romance novels to know what could be fixed (first on my list isĀ āless rape culture,ā followed byĀ āmore dominant womenā andĀ āmore POC and LGBTQ folksā). Having a happy ending isnāt a flaw.
Does theĀ āhappy endingā HAVE to involve the couple in the book getting together? Or can they just all beā¦ happy? A depressing ending to aĀ āromanceā novel would make it into more of a drama/horror story to me.
It has to end with the characters together. They donāt have to be married, you can have an HFN - Happy For Now - where the idea is that theyāre happy together at the end but hey life is a mystery, it may not be forever.
But yes, they do have to be together at the end of the book.
You solve the crime at the end of a crime book. You solve the mystery at the end of a mystery. You have a romance at the end of a romance. Honestly? Thatās all that needs to be said about genre conventions.
Exactly! No one asks James Patterson why he has the detective solve the murder by the end of the book. So why is it OK for a thriller writer to write within the confines of a thriller but itās not OK for a romance writer to write within the confines of a romance?
Although James Patterson is a man and most of his fanbase is men, where as romance writers are usually women writing for women readers so.... maybe thatās the answer to my question. :\
Winston Brothers month continues! The Winston Brothers series has a big cast of characters, even I get confused sometimes (especially with how to spell āDarrellā O.o ) So weāre going to try to share some facts, relationships, and quotes from characters in the series leading up to the release of Dr. Strange Beard!
I have to say Jackson James is one of my favorites. I cannot wait to write his book :-D
You can pre-order Dr. Strange Beard EVERYWHERE: http://pennyreid.ninja/book/dr-strange-beard
from your friendly neighborhood librarian:
all books are good books.Ā you are not a ālesser readerā if you only read manga or comic books or a ābetter readerā for reading academic heavy texts.
reading is reading no matter what it is, be it a graphic novel, a romance, a classic, an audiobook, a picture book, a cookbook, fanfiction, fucking whatever, read what makes you happy
reading is supposed to be fun and donāt let elitism sap any joy out of it
i love jane eyre but honestly imagine being friends with that bitch. like imagine trying to convince her to leave rochester and sheās like idk and youāre like he called u ugly???? he keeps his secret wife locked in the attic???? wake up???? and then you think she finally has it sorted out and she calls you a few months later likeĀ āhis wife killed herself and burned down the house so itās cool weāre getting marriedā like !!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO YOU GO TO THAT WEDDING!!!!!!
