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		<title>Diamond Jubilee Hop!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Internet. Confession time. I am a geek. Wait, what? You&#8217;re not surprised? What if I tell you that one of my most prized possessions is a mug from Queen Victoria&#8217;s 1897 Diamond Jubilee? It&#8217;s true! I keep it on the highest of high shelves in the living room, just waiting for the day when Kidlet will locate it and destroy it. (I give him three months, four days. Feel free to make your own bets.) So, yes. I am that kind of geek. The Anglophile Victorianist kind. The kind who&#8217;s read The Novels of Gaskell and also The Novels of Trollope and quite a few of The Novels of Dickens, including Bleak House &#8212; in serial parts, no less &#8211; for which I deserve a special prize. I also own two pieces of Queen Victoria artwork, one of them satirical, but I will spare you, because I am supposed to have a point today. And that point is&#8230; DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATION HOP! Now, the whole purpose of a blog hop is to get stuff, and I&#8217;m going to tell you about the great stuff you can get in a sec. First, I will bore you with the knowledge that this blog hop is in honor of Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee, which celebrates the fact that she&#8217;s coming up on 60 years on the throne. (And I hope we can all agree that&#8217;s a good thing, because I, for one, have no desire to see Charles with a crown balanced over &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.ruthieknox.com/2012/05/diamond-jubilee-hop/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Six Sentence Sunday #27</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 05:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, Sixers! Today we begin my promotional binge of excerpts from About Last Night, which releases June 11. Should you be bowled over with its wonderfulness and wish to preorder, there are links off the Books page. In today&#8217;s excerpt, we meet the hero, whose name our heroine, Cath, doesn&#8217;t know yet. She calls him City. She&#8217;s waiting with a friend at the train station and predicting his arrival in three&#8230;two&#8230;one. “Tall blond man in an expensive suit, Financial Times under his arm,” she said, then added, “Possibly a cyborg.” Thirty seconds ticked by, and City rose into view, punctual as ever and way too good looking to be human. Cath had a soft spot for City. From the moment she’d spied him waiting for the train to Bank last winter, he’d intrigued her. She’d given him the nickname as a nod to his profession, because everything about him announced he worked in the City of London, the square-mile financial district at the center of the metropolis: the dignified wool overcoat and scarf he’d worn all winter, the shined shoes, the ever-present newspaper. Aristocratically remote, he was Prince Charming in a suit.]]></description>
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		<title>What-to-Read Wednesday: Make Me and Stranded with a Scotsman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m going to mix it up and give two recommendations for books that are completely, totally different. If you&#8217;re in the mood for a really filthy erotic book with a splash of romance, I give you Charlotte Stein&#8217;s latest release, Make Me&#8212; Maisie had no idea her best friends could be so kinky. But now, ten years after the most intense sexual encounter of her life, she’s about to discover just how sexually flexible they can be. Forced to face Brandon and Tyler, Maisie comes up against something she doesn’t expect: the intensity of her own desires for things best left in the past. But once Brandon’s confessed to her just how persuasive Tyler can be when it comes to kinky encounters, Maisie finds that some things can never be buried. She wants them both, and she’s no longer afraid to admit it… &#160; What I most enjoyed about Make Me is the explicit surfacing of a theme that crops up more subtly again and again in Stein&#8217;s work &#8212; the erotic power of shame. If you&#8217;ve read Stein&#8217;s Control, Doubled, or All Other Things (all of which I liked very much), you&#8217;ll recognize the basic set-up here: two men, one woman, and a narrator who&#8217;s overwhelmed by lust. She&#8217;s ashamed of all the kinky things she wants to do and have done to her, but not quite ashamed enough to stop doing them. Or, more precisely, she&#8217;s not ashamed enough to stop them being done to her. She takes refuge in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.ruthieknox.com/2012/05/what-to-read-wednesday-make-me-and-stranded-with-a-scotsman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Six Sentence Sunday #26</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 05:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there, Sixers! I didn&#8217;t get a chance to leave comments last week, so now I feel unbearably guilty. Imagine me, steeping in guilt all week. Sigh. Is that enough penance for you? But life goes on, so here&#8217;s another six. I&#8217;ve been revising the second of a pair of books that will be coming out with Loveswept early next year. This one is called MAN FOR THE MOMENT. We&#8217;re in heroine Katie&#8217;s head, pondering the mysteries of the hero, Sean. The closer they got to Buffalo, the more he’d retreated into himself, batting away the minor attempts at flirtation she’d made during what remained of the drive. Having arrived in the frigid north, he’d become colder than ever. Granite Man again. A great big hunk of frozen stone. She didn’t buy it anymore. If she poured on enough heat, he would crack. Thanks for visiting! As always, the other participants in Six Sentence Sunday can be found here.]]></description>
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		<title>What-to-Read Wednesday: Hot Island Nights and Her Best Worst Mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s What-to-Read Wednesday is a twofer! That&#8217;s two reviews in one, not two for the price of one. Am not in control of the pricing. Everybody already knows that Sarah Mayberry is made of wonderful, right? And that she writes category romance like nobody&#8217;s bizness, and her books are pretty much always stellar, so you can count on her to deliver something interesting and unexpected and sexy and funny and smart and comforting, all at once, pretty much every time? Good. So I won&#8217;t bother with all that. Here&#8217;s the scoop. Sarah Mayberry just self-published a novel, Her Best Worst Mistake, and it has a hot, uptight Englishman and a bad girl named Violet who owns a shop called Violet Femmes. It&#8217;s great. Here&#8217;s the copy&#8212; She thinks he&#8217;s stuffy. He thinks she&#8217;s spoilt. Then the gloves come off&#8230;and so do their clothes!  For six years Violet Sutcliffe has known that Martin St Clair is the wrong man for her best friend. He&#8217;s stuffy, old before his time, conservative. He drives Violet nuts &#8211; and the feeling is entirely mutual. Then, out of nowhere, her friend walks out just weeks before her wedding to Martin, flying to Australia on a mission of self-discovery. Back in London, Violet finds herself feeling sorry for suddenly-single Martin. At least, she tells herself it&#8217;s pity she feels. Then he comes calling one dark, stormy night and they discover that beneath their mutual dislike there lies a fiery sexual chemistry. It&#8217;s crazy and all-consuming &#8211; &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.ruthieknox.com/2012/05/what-to-read-wednesday-hot-island-nights-and-her-best-worst-mistake/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Want to read About Last Night before everybody else? — CLOSED</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The giveaway is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered! I&#8217;ll be sending an e-mail to the 100 entrants shortly, so keep an eye on your spam filters. If you filled in the form and haven&#8217;t heard from me yet, and I&#8217;m not in your spam filter, drop me an e-mail (ruthie at ruthieknox dot com) with your NetGalley username, full name, and e-mail address, and I&#8217;ll check my list and add you if you&#8217;re not on it. I&#8217;ll just assume y&#8217;all are trustworthy types. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Here&#8217;s your chance! I&#8217;m giving away free preview copies to the first 100 people to fill out and submit this form. Have at it. I&#8217;ll close the form when I get 100 entries, so if you can see the form, the giveaway is still open, and you&#8217;re going to get your book! Once I get all 100 entries, I&#8217;ll send out an e-mail with details. Keep an eye out, and check your junk mail filter if you don&#8217;t get anything.]]></description>
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		<title>Six Sentence Sunday #25</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 05:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Sunday, everyone. Since last week&#8217;s six from Abandoned Christmas Novella was such a big hit, here&#8217;s six more about our hero, slab-o-charisma Carson, whom heroine Julie most certainly did not expect to encounter at the Portland airport, waiting to take the same flight she&#8217;s booked on. He was supposed to be off somewhere, Ceylon or Tuvalu or some other far-flung place, producing movies for National Geographic. She’d seen a few of them, seen an extra on one of the DVDs that showed Carson in the desert wearing fatigue pants and a sweat-stained T-shirt. He’d squinted into the distance as he talked to the show’s host, and he’d looked like he always looked, only better. Tempered by age and experience, but restless even on camera, pointing and bossing people around. That was what he was supposed to be doing. He wasn’t supposed to be standing too close, looking at her like she was a hill he’d forgotten to plant his flag in. Be sure to check out some of the other Six Sunday participants here.]]></description>
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		<title>What-to-Read Wednesday: Sheltered</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fretted about this week&#8217;s what-to-read post. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of editing lately, reading submissions, and beta reading for writer friends, so I haven&#8217;t been getting all that much reading done &#8212; and what I have read that&#8217;s actually published and therefore recommendable has been&#8230;meh. What to recommend? Then I remembered I hadn&#8217;t featured Sheltered here yet, and I thought, &#8220;Score!&#8221; Because I love this book, and I have no reservations whatsoever about gushing about it. Here&#8217;s the blurb&#8212; &#160; Evie has lived her entire life under her abusive father’s thumb. He controls everything. Where she goes to college, who she sees, what she does. But when she meets Van—a punk who shows her how different life could be—she realizes how much she’s been missing. Van offers her excitement, protection, love…and most of all, sex—even if he’s at first reluctant to give her all the things she’s been craving. She wants to explore this new world of arousal and desire, but Van is only too aware of how fragile she is, how innocent&#8230; And how much is at stake, when their love is forbidden. &#160; &#160; If you&#8217;ve been visiting my website for a while, I&#8217;m sure you already know how much I adore Charlotte Stein&#8217;s writing. Looooove. She writes romantic erotica with hot sex and happy endings &#8212; and that&#8217;s all right up my alley &#8212; but really I read her for her voice. Her voice is just guh. She writes deep, deep point of view, and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.ruthieknox.com/2012/05/what-to-read-wednesday-sheltered/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Six Sentence Sunday #24</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Sixers! I&#8217;ve missed you. We&#8217;ve had a run of family emergencies, illnesses, and general malaise around these parts. Happy to be back. Today&#8217;s six comes from an abandoned attempt to write a Christmas novella. Don&#8217;t know if or when I&#8217;ll return to this particular project, but I liked these lines, which help introduce the hero. We&#8217;re in heroine POV, and she&#8217;s approaching him from across a crowded airport gate area. It was definitely something to do with his feet, or else in the set of his shoulders. Julie couldn’t put her finger on it, but the fact was, all he was doing was standing there, waiting his turn to talk to the gate agent, and yet he managed to look like a character in a Hemingway story. Like he ought to have a shotgun and a pith helmet, and he should speak in short, urgent sentences and shoot elephants for fun. But maybe she was projecting. Maybe he wasn’t really conveying as much testosterone-laden urgency as she imagined. Maybe she only thought he looked like a territory-conquering slab of rough-and-tumble male charisma because he’d conquered her territory, tumbled her rough, and left her without a backward glance nine years ago. As per usual, you can find the other participants in Six Sentence Sunday here. Happy browsing! It&#8217;s great to be back.]]></description>
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		<title>What-to-Read Wednesday: An Uncommon Sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not Wednesday, I know, but dude. Doing the best I can here. Bear with me. My friend Serenity Woods (she also writes as Faye Robertson) has a new book out with Samhain, which makes it easy for me to decide whose praises to sing today. This book is so much fun! Here&#8217;s the blurb&#8212; All six senses tell him she’s the one. High school science teacher Grace Fox doesn’t believe in any of that woo-woo stuff. So it’s easy to laugh off her friend’s prediction that she’ll have swear-out-loud sex with the next man who walks through her classroom door. Who knew that local celebrity Ash Rutherford would have the time to attend his daughter’s parents’ night? Or that the Viking lookalike would trigger an attack of klutziness? He may or may not see dead people, but he certainly got a good look up her skirt. A doctor turned medium, Ash spends his days communicating with unseen spirits. When it comes to his moody daughter, though, he hopes down-to-earth Grace will give him some insight. The racy lingerie she hides beneath her prim and proper clothing is an added bonus he didn’t expect. Their attraction is instant and blazing hot, but Ash has been burned before. His ex-wife didn’t believe in his abilities, and no way is he going down that road again. At least not until Grace accepts the possibility there might be life after death. And the ghosts of his past are laid to rest. Product Warnings &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.ruthieknox.com/2012/04/what-to-read-wednesday-an-uncommon-sense/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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