Written In My Own Heart's Blood

 

This book has been on my TBR list for what seems like forever. I started reading it shortly after it was released, but then life happened and I lost track of the story and where I was. Since the 9th book in this series came out, I figured I should probably get to reading this one.

 

As with all of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books, this one if huge. I've decided to listen to the audio book and it's over 40 hours long!

 

If you haven't read any of the Outlander books, I would highly recommend you start at the beginning. This author doesn't tend to recap previous books very much, especially in the later books in the series, so if you try to start with this one you will be lost.

 

Given the length of this one, I will most likely be reading it for a while. If you'd like to follow my progress, make sure to follow me on Goodreads. 

 

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If you'd like to get your hands on Written In My Own Hearts Blood by Diana Gabaldon, or any of her other Outlander books, click on one of the links below. 

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Planning For 2022: Writing, Planners, And More

 

It's a new year and that means setting new writing and business goals. This week's podcast is a special one. Tina Moss, Danielle Bannister, Marianne Morea, and I are all coming together this week for a fun conversation talking about what we've learned in the past year and our upcoming projects for 2022.

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Looking Back On My Favorite Reads For 2021

The first book that has to make my favorite's list for 2021 is Filthy Rich Revenge by Lynn Raye Harris. 

 

I'll be honest. I'm not a huge fan of the enemies to lovers trope, but I picked this one up because it was Lynn Raye Harris and I love her stuff. She didn't disappoint. I LOVED this one.

 

These two characters pulled me in from the start and didn't let go. I would highly recommend this if you're looking for a great enemy to lovers story with a sexy billionaire hero.

 

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The second book to make my best of 2021 list is All That Matters by Erin Nicholas.

 

I'm not sure there's a book this author has written that I haven't liked. I don't think so. And this year, I read several of her stories. This one, however, is at the top of my list. I loved the story from start to finish and found myself picking it up every chance I got.

 

This is the third book in a series, and while it can be read as a standalone, I would highly recommend reading them in order. We meet the heroine as a fourteen year old girl in the first book, and the hero is introduced in book two. Seeing these two progress was part of the fun!

 

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And my biggest surprise find for 2021 was a book by a new to me author. She also happens to be one of my co-hosts in the Bound by Books Podcast.

 

I wasn't sure what I was going to get when I started reading The First 100 Kisses by Danielle Bannister. She warned me it wasn't going to be as spicy as my stuff, but that there was some steam. What I discovered was a fun story about exploration and lots of sexual tension.

 

If you're looking for a book filled with angst, this is the book for you. This is a friends to...sort of lovers...romance that is full of angst.

 

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The Year In Review: 2021

 

It's time to say goodbye to 2021 and hello to 2022, but not before we take a look back at some of our favorite moments.

 

This week's podcast is a little different. We've each selected clips from our favorite episode to share. 

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Merry Christmas!

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday. We need family and friends more than ever right now and to remember how precious spending time together is.

 

 

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

 

Tina Moss and I are talking all about the holidays. We're talking writing challenges and Christmas traditions.

 

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I Can't Believe It's Taken This Long For Me To Pick Up This Book

 

This book has been on my TBR list forever. Why I never read it when it was fan fiction, I don't know. I read another story from this author back then and enjoyed it. This one, however, just didn't sound as appealing to me.

 

But...I'm taking the plunge. Hopefully, I'll like this one as well as I did her other story.

 

Have you read Wallbanger by Alice Clayton?

 

Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a Kitchen Aid mixer to die for, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks).

She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. 

She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O.

 Adding insult to O-less, she also has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Every moan, spank, and—was that a meow?—punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has—yep, you guessed it—no O. 

Enter Simon Parker. When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. 

Their late-night hallway encounter has…well…mixed results. Because with walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick. 

A delicious mix of silly and steamy, this is an irresistible tale of exasperation at first sight.

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