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Review: A Slot Machine Ate My Midlife Crisis by Irene Woodbury

  Today’s (way overdue) review is for A Slot Machine Ate My Midlife Crisis by Irene Woodbury.  This is Irene’s first novel and was inspired by her love to travel, especially to Las Vegas!  She came up with the idea for this novel in 2006 and after many years of research, A Slot Machine was […]

Bootscootin’ Blahniks – D.D. Scott

I found this as a free e-book on Amazon and it sounded like a good book so I downloaded it…the price was right after all!  Plus if I didn’t like it I could delete it and not worry about losing money.  The Author is D.D. Scott It’s Chick Lit, Gone-Country. Think Sex and the City […]

Brownie Fix – Ellen Cardona

I like to read books by first time authors and especially when that author is a sorority sister!  It just seems like there is something special reading a book by someone that has a connection to you in one way or another. Ellen Cardona wrote Brownie Fix to help deal with the postpartum depression she […]

On loan from the library

Once I finish Lost and Fondue I will be starting on Murder by Mocha by Cleo Coyle.  Murder by Mocha is the 10th in the Coffee House series. From the dust jacket: Clare Cosi, manager and head barista of the landmark Village Blend coffeehouse, can brew a beverage to die for.  But can she stir […]

Interview with Darcie Chan

As a result of my last post with a review of Darcie’s book, she contacted me via email to thank me for the review.  Well I’m never one to turn down an opportunity to get a mini interview from an author so here goes! SBR: How did you come up with the idea of this […]

The Mill River Recluse – Darcie Chan (Review)

Author Darcie Chan is an attorney and lives in northern Westchester County, New York, with her husband and son. In her spare time, Darcie enjoys reading, writing fiction, gardening, playing piano, and cooking. The Mill River Recluse is her first novel and I believe it is only available as an e-book. Synopsis: Disfigured by the […]

Called Home – Gloria Schumann

Gloria Schumann is originally from Detroit but attended college in TN where she met her husband, Paul.  They moved to Minnesota before ending up in Austin where they still reside.  I learned from her site that she was never much of a reader growing up (oh the horror!) but quickly delved into reading whenver she could once she found […]

Heads You Lose – Lisa Lutz & David Hayward

Heads You Lose is a joint collaboration between Lisa Lutz (known for The Spellman Files series) and David Hayward (He writes poetry and has a editing/writing company).  The authors each write a chapter and then hand it off to the other.  In between the chapters there are comments about what is written and David’s foray […]

The Sixes – Kate White (giveaway)

Kate White is best known as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and several bestselling career bibles including Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead…but Gutsy Girls Do and 9 Secrets of Women who Get Everything They Want. Then in 2002 she decided to try her hand at mystery novels and scored a hit with If Looks […]