Tales from the Hollow Tree reviewed Cindy Lynn Speer’s The Chocolatier’s Wife.

I loved everything about this story. It was lighthearted, fun, magical, beautiful, and romantic in all the right ways. Ms. Speer has a real talent for the written word and she makes you forget anything else exists when you read. I would highly recommend this story to teens and adults alike. Grade: A+

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We’ll be celebrating the release of Teri Rigg’s first novel, The Eyes Die Last, in the chat room on February 28th at 9:00 PM Eastern. Teri was the winner of a full manuscript edit from Drollerie Press in the Brenda Novak auction, and some of the proceeds from sales of the book will go to support future DP donations. We’ve invited Brenda and her indefatigable assistant Anna to join us, and they’ve promised to try, which, considering how busy they are gearing up for the next auction, is awfully nice of them. We also hope to have some other goodies to share with our visitors, so be sure to mark your calendar.

The Eyes Die Last is something of a departure for us, since it has absolutely nothing magical about it (beyond a great story). We felt, however, that it would be a great addition to our catalog and a special way to support the auction.

The Las Vegas Mayoral race is heating up, and the incumbent doesn’t have a prayer. Wealthy real estate speculator Nick Campenelli, who wants to legalize prostitution in the entire city, not just in the Clark County parts, and former pastor Louis. St. Louis, running on a clean-up-Vegas-by-getting-rid-of-the-whores platform, are the front runners.

They’re also front runners on the suspect list for a string of murders. Kennedy O’Brien, two year detective with cop blood running in her veins, and her partner Wilder “Wild Thing” James, a veteran, are determined to find the man who’s murdering prostitutes who work the wrong side of the street, and they don’t care how important or politically active he is.

The killer is a man with a mission. He stalks the women before he kills them, leaving a “BEFORE” photo on their bodies, and sending an “AFTER” shot to the local news hound. Ed Hershey, an aging newscaster with just the right amount of grey in his hair, is determined to turn this story into a network gig, and his interference, along with the LVTVS legal team, are making Kennedy and Wilder look bad. Campenelli’s good looks and charm, and St. Louis’ vitriolic hatred of prostitutes are muddying the waters too, and now the killer seems to have taken a liking to Kennedy. So the big question remains. Can she get him before he gets her?

Also, those of you who plan to submit to the Ghost, Greek, or Magic anthologies, the deadline is coming soon. Please send your submissions in by midnight, February 28. Responses will be sent out during the month of March. Submissions to Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Lesbian Sorceresses opened on February 15th and will remain open until May 15th. See the open anthologies page for more information.

General submissions remain closed for now, but we hope to open them again by the end of March.

We’ve had a bit of a hiatus on this, y’all, but as of this month I’m reinstating the Drollerie Blog Tour! This time around, though, we’re doing something different: we’re inviting non-Drollerie authors to come participate, and so for the February round, several of my fellow Drollerie authors and I will be swapping posts with several non-Drollerie authors. I hope to make this a regular thing–so any non-Drollerie authors reading this, if you’d like in on the blog action, do drop me a comment and let me know.

But! This month’s topic, aside from general introductions of various authors, is “best and worst experiences with works in progress”. And this month’s lineup of posts is as follows:

Nora Fleischer is hosting Brandon Bell, with a post right here. Brandon is hosting posts by Sarah Avery and Nora here and here.

Anna Kashina is hosting a post by author Gayleen Froese, here. Gayleen in return is hosting a post by Anna here.

John Rosenman and I are both hosting Hamish MacDonald, a true self-published author. My link for him is here, and John has his version of the post over here. In exchange, Hamish has posts up for both me and John!

Our own David Sklar is exchanging posts with Angelia Sparrow. David’s post on Angelia’s blog is here, and David has Angelia’s post up on his LJ over here.

As always, thanks for reading these posts, y’all, and I highly encourage you to visit all the posts on the tour. Drop comments and say hi, and tell the authors I sent you! We’ll be back again in another month or so, and we hope to expand the scope of where Drollerie authors visit. Watch this space for more details!

(Crossposted between Drollerie Press and angelakorrati.com. Please feel free to comment in either place!)

Joely Sue Burkhart’s The Road to Shanhasson is up for best book of 2009 at Long and Short of It (Whipped Cream). Please stop in and vote and read Holly’s review.

“I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who loves a lot of action, a lot of passion and lots of steamy romance. Like the previous book in the series, this one is not for the faint of heart. If you want a simple “happily ever after” this is not the book for you. But if you want depth of characters and excellent storytelling, Joely Sue Burkhart comes through with one fantastic book. I can’t wait for the next one.”

To read more of this review go here. To read an excerpt of The Road to Shanhasson go here.

Marissa of Marissa’s Booklair posted her review of Joeyly Sue Burkhart’s The Rose of Shanhasson.

“Joely Sue Burkhart creates a rich and layered story by interlacing different elements like world-building, characterization, fantasy, suspense and romance perfect to a tee. It has been a while that a story took me by surprise and left me breathless, but Joely Sue Burkhart did it. The Rose of Shanhasson is intense, erotic, dark and addictive from start to finish, a perfect read!”

To read more of this review go here. To read an excerpt of The Rose of Shanhasson go here.