Barbara- You keep mentioning Weight Watchers, but you haven't told us how you're doing. How would your WW leader write YOUR review? :)

I have to admit that the only book listed here that I have read is Sugar Daddy. I got to do the narration for the book trailer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SuNH4wWSb4 I can honestly say that this is one of the best books I've ever read. I could not put it down! Blue Eyed Devil will be out next. It is the follow up to Sugar Daddy and highlights some secondary characters. I am dying to read it!!!

Oops! I forgot to say that Blue Eyed Devil is her next contemporary. She has a new series of historicals coming out that I think people will LOVE.
Mine Till Midnight will be out soon! It has silly English girls that you'll adore and some dangerously dark gypsy heroes that will make you melt! I love anything Lisa Kleypas does!!

As always I'm so impressed with their ability to get to the meat of the book in just a few sentences. These ladies are quite good at this.

Romance is the only fiction written by women, read by woman, edited by woman and largely acquired and agented by woman. No wonder it's so hard to get respect for it. Even though it's no more light reading than your average police thriller or non-stop action spy thriller. I love those too, by the way. I'm the author of two romances. Petticoat Ranch and Golden Days And I love a good romance novel.

My to read list just keeps getting longer and longer.

Hi again Have you heard about "tagging"? It's a sort of blog chain letter and... I've been tagged, so now I'm passing it along to you. Feel free to ignore this, but it is sort of fun. So if you have a moment, this is the deal as it was explained to me: According to the rules, you're supposed to list 7 random facts/habits about myself, here, on my blog. Then tag 7 other bloggers by emailing them and telling them, "tag, you're it." and then link to their blogs. Annoying, yeah. But it gave me a chance to link to some other blogs that I really like a lot, so I did it.

I have to remark on this: MARY CONNEALY commented: "Romance is the only fiction written by women, read by woman, edited by woman and largely acquired and agented by woman." I shouldn’t be surprised if others remark on this as well. MY HUSBAND reads Romance, ones that I recommend as well as recommendations by his co-workers and other female friends. Sometimes he even finds them in the library himself, especially if they lean toward Fantasy or Mystery. He reads Evanovich, Brockmann, MJ Davidson, Charlaine Harris, JD Robb, and Tami Hoag. As a circulation clerk in a public library, the day doesn’t pass when I don't see male patrons checking out books for themselves by authors of Romance… And so many “Romance” books could be cross-filed into different genres. Such a blanket statement is not really fair to authors (female or male)or their readers.

I was actually thinking of posting this even before I read Joysannoh's comment above: My husband and I read very different books, but what's great is getting to hear about his books -- and I believe he enjoys hearing about my reads, too. He doesn't read romance. I think his reading is pretty typical for men of a certain age -- a lot of nonfiction and a good amount of "serious" fiction (Philip Roth, Richard Ford), too. I love that he reads nonfiction and can then tell me what he's learned. And when I get up to a good passage (usually something chilling), I read it aloud to him and we both enjoy.
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Barb, I can't thank you enough for featuring my book and sharing it with your friends. I still read your blog almost every day, even if I don't have time to comment! And if you don't think you have many visitors, you should have seen what happened to my Amazon ranking in the 24 hours after the blog posted. :)

Debbie...my WW story will be up next month, with pictures and quotes from my leader and fellow losers. Sheila...I watched the Sugar Daddy trailer again just to hear you narrate it. It was perfect...next you'll be doing audio books. :) Clea...I'll answer those tag questions a little later this week. Promise :grin: Joysannoh, I want to meet your husband. Ramona, I'm glad your book is doing well. I know the people who I've lent it to have enjoyed it. Plus, I'm glad someone reading my random thoughts of greatness. lol

In response to Joysannoh. I think that's great that men are reading romance. Brockman and and those other authors are fast paced, well written books that anyone would enjoy and, in case no one noticed, your average Louis L'Amour book is nothing but a romance novel from a man's point of view.