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Ten Nights of Love: Cover Gallery

February 14th, 2010 | Comments Off

Happy Valentine’s Day When I first came up with idea of doing this Ten Nights of Love series of posts, I wanted to find something to illustrate them and the obvious choice was the books. As I sorted through my collection, though, I realized that they also showed a lifetime of changes in the covers themselves. So, I wanted to see a gallery of one cover for each author in one post and thought you might enjoy it, too. I included Ten Nights of Love just to keep things even although I may have sort of cheated elsewhere for the purposes of showing an early electronic cover. Odd how few clinches there are… Related Posts:Ten Nights of Love: Overview & AfterthoughtsTen Nights of Love: Shelly LaurenstonTen Nights of Love: Linnea SinclairTen Nights of Love: Christine FeehanTen Nights of … Read entire article »

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Growing buildings, Gothics galore & a spy at RWA?

July 24th, 2009 | Comments Off

Somehow it just doesn’t look like a romantic treehouse to me Maybe more like something out of a sci-fi novel. Or a horror movie. Seriously. I can’t figure out if the picture creeps me out or intrigues me to no end but it definitely caught my attention and made me want to read the article about architects who are experimenting with “growing” buidings using trees grown around metals. And tree houses it definitely is. This is truly wild. Who would have thought willows of all the trees could be used to create towers like that? Then again, maybe that does make sense.   Gothic goings on in the night: Over on Teach Me Tonight, Laura brought up this quote about Gothic covers: Nearly every modern gothic issued before 1974 sported a predominantly green and blue drawing exhibiting … Read entire article »

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The First Harlequin

July 22nd, 2009 | 7 Comments

I thought it somehow fitting to find a beginning point for the industry I’m rather devoted to buying, consuming, devouring–well, you get the idea. One of them anyway. Originally published as A John Crowther Publication in London in 1946, The Manatee by Nancy Bruff was republished in paperback as Harlequin #1 in 1949. So far the only description I’ve found is from an ad on eBay that says it’s taken from the back cover: This robust, powerful novel is the story of Jabez Folger, savage, romantic man of the sea, with a sinister secret in his past. Against the colourful background of Nantucket in its great whaling days, Nancy Bruff has set this bold, sweeping drama of vibrant love and corrosive hatred. On Jabez Folger’s first whaling voyage he had a dark and evil experience that … Read entire article »

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