Lost In Thought

I looked in at the lovely blogs and looked at the blog list and realized that ‘dudes’ I am suppose to be blogging again.  For the life of me I have no idea what to blog about.  I spent just over a week so sick that I did not want to get out of bed, yet I was at work every day like a good little girl, breathing while I was there was optional, cause it was not easy to breathe.  Not quite sure what I had but at least I am now over it.  Thank God above for that.

I do reviews for two review sights, NightOwlRomances.com is the one that everyone talks about but I also review for ManicReaders.com.  Between the two of them, I have about 30 books to read.  Normally this would not faze me as my TBR pile is usually shoulder deep at the least, but being that I have been sick I feel like I am falling behind on what I should be doing.  So I read what I can and do the best I am able to.  I just finished a book that had me laughing and crying all within the space of 2 hours.  A Fine Specimen by Lisa Marie Rice definitely is a must read in my book.  Hot alpha male that is also a cop, yummy.  A scholarly lady that looks way too young to be even close to legal.  Boy oh boy, is all I can say.  If you like stories that will keep you going and hoping that the guy gets his head out of his ass and do what will make them both happening then this is a good book to read.

I have been working on a list of authors that are willing to send directly to me and that are then published at Night Owl Romances.  I have had amazing luck thanks to Lex Valentine and Kris at MLR.  But one thing that gets on my nerves is when you send an email to someone and they do not even have the decency to answer back telling me no they are not interested.  I know that writers are very busy people many of whom have regular jobs on top of writing, but is it that hard to take a minute and answer a stupid email?  I have sent query ‘letters’ out to a couple of big name authors and gotten no response; and the sad part is, it is not just the big name writers that do this. I have sent out a couple to authors that I have talked to on several loops that have gotten no response.  I took the time to write a nice request, would it really hurt you to at least tell me “thanks for the interest but I will keep doing things the way they are now”?

On a better note, like I said I have had some really good responses from authors.  Ashley Chase, Jason Edding, Ethan Day, Lex Valentine, and Renee Wildes have all sent me books to review, several more have said they will as soon as I am ready for more books.  For me, it is nice to know that I have really good books that will be coming in to read in the future.  For the author, I give an honest review of their books, which from what I get told is a good thing to get.  If anyone else is interested, please feel free to contact me and we can set something up.

I hope that everyone has a great month!