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Go and check out my new site! Arin Rhys Online! That is where my blog is now being held.

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Wereplanets: In Smoke by Crystal Jordan is a book that is built on a great premise with awesome world building. The plot doesn't feel rushed by its novella length. That doesn't mean that it is a book without flaws, though in spite of them, I would still give the book a C.There are four wereplanets with mermaids, weredragons, weretigers, and werebears on separate planets. The werefolk were made

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Thanks to the lovely Celia Kyle, my website has a new home and a new look. She put in the wordpress which is the foundation of the entire site. Thank you, Celia!!! Arin Rhys Online

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http://www.arinrhys.literalseduction.com/ - Celia Kyle of literalseduction.com graciously is letting me squat on her internet domain. I just have a coming soon page up, but I hope to have a lot more. Yay!

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Does anyone have any happy, fun books to recommend? I need a good book, a good cry, and good sized bar of chocolate.

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The Most Important Thing I have Learned From Writing FanfictionTaking Criticism -- Constructive or Not:We all love our moms. She tells us that we are the most pretty girl in the world, that our writing is fantastic, and that we'll be bigger than Nora Roberts. Unfortunately, you could be butt-ugly, unable to string two words together, and Nora Roberts would laugh in her Gucci heels before riding

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I had my story, The Cherub's Ditch, rejected by Torquere Press which was depressing as hell. But, I still have vaguely offensive funny videos on Youtube to console me.I bring you: HOUSE OF COSBYS!This isn't quit safe for work, I don't think. Its in the AdultSwim on the cartoon network line of humor. You'll never look at Bill Cosby the same again!

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Fortune's Fool is an erotic romance anthology featuring Selah March (her book, Dirty Shame, was given a 85 by Mrs Giggles), Eva Gale, Bianca D'Arc, and Cassidy Kent. The theme of the anthology is psychics. Its from Phaze!

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Miami SizzleMildred Sugarbaker was a just your average virgin widow trying to keep her dead sister's orphanage for the redhead children of Indonesian skunk miners open when disaster struck. Under the hot Miami sun with only the seagulls as witnesses, one of the children were kidnapped. And now a steep ransom is being demanded -- HER VIRGINITY.Glenn Finkleberg is a ex-SEAL, ex-PI, ex-CIA and

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Do you love Mysteries? I like mysteries, but I love historical mysteries. Have any of you heard of Steven Saylor? He has a mystery series that features a detective-like man named Gordianus the Finder who helps solve crimes and mysteries for the Roman elite in the time of Julius Caesar. I've only read one book of his -- The Judgement of Caesar -- and I can't wait to read another. The speech and

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The fake Tyra Mail from McSweeney's is hilarious. Here is my favorite:One of you bitches done stole my Fruit Roll-Ups. Heads will roll tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. sharp. —Y'all know my nameTROUBLING TYRA MAILS CENSORED FROM AIRED EPISODES OF AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL.

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I'm not disappointed because the girl who won (I'm trying not to spoil anyone) is talented and did walk well in the show, but I did want the other girl to win because I feel that she has more potential to be successful. And, she is just cute as a button!Anyway, as long as a certain woman didn't win, I am happy. If she won I would have been pissed. Any other Top Model fans?

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I found a link to a Russian moose farm! It has picture goodness. THE KOSTROMA MOOSE FARM

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Aubrey Debauchery is a singer-songwriter who writes some beautiful and at times playfully wicked songs. One song of hers that I really like a lot is the "Love Letter to No One." That might be a song to give some writers some inspiration. I've seen her in concert, and she has a great presence, she can really work a crowd. Even if that crowd is behind a noisy pizzeria. My friends and I drove two

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Neptune Rising by H.A. Fowler was like a constant homage to other books or even television shows. I say homage to be polite. Let me explain: the hero, Hart Campbell, is describe as having cheekbones like David Boreanaz's and sounding like a Scotsman because he sounded like Jamie from a Diana Gabaldon's book. He is a incubus and, like a Christina Feehan or Kresley Cole book, has a soulmate with a

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better not go to the Romantic Times convention.Homophobia shown toward a M/M writer.Way to go, Romantic Times, way to show how up with the times you are. They don't review M/M and they don't like those authors at their cons. Wow, way to alienate the readers and writers of a rapidly growing genre. Kudos, Hyatt hotel as well.Kathryn Falk of Romantic Times is making romance writers and publishers

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Dirty Shame by Selah March from Amber Quill press is a contemporary romance that breaks the rules. First of all the hero, Dare Daniels, is the star of a hit television show called Vegas Knight. Second of all the 'dirty shame' in his past is actually something that would make a person tortured. Third of all, Dare is a complete womanizer. Selah March doesn't play halfsies with this tale. And, boy,

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Okay, I had my Japanese oral final today, and I survived. I was literally shaking throughout the five minute conversation. Sensai Ishitawa and Fujio scare me sometimes. Usually when they make me speak Japanese. Now, I know that I will need some good ebooks to calm my nerves and relax me enough so that I can sleep after all the cramming and such.So, does anyone have any recommendations? I like

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nIiC5yiNak-----When I saw this I thought of a few vampire heroes in some recent paranormals. This ring anyone else's bells?

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Okay, finals are a week and a half away, so I will be getting into stressed out mode complete with swelled tonsils. So, I bid everyone adieu until finals are over and I stopped pulling my hair out.Sela Carsen:I liked the Virgin Courtesan a lot. There was a good sense of scenery. I couldn't imagine the story taking place anywhere else. The characters were likable. The villain was pretty 2-D, and

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I'm reading Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie and it's great. I'll have a review for that and the Virgin Courtesan up soon. Most likely by the weekend. I have a few university matters including a French-Canadian professor and the extreme hard Japanese language to master.Good News: I already planned out my schedule for next fall.Bad News: Finals are coming up in three weeks.Bittersweet News: I ran out of

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I swear on the sacred name of blogger that one day I will write a story where some secondary characters are a funny were-Armadillo and his wife. There must be a scene where the wife puts a upturned laundry basket over the husband when he is in his were-armadillo form because she gets annoyed that him and another paranormal creature were out fighting crime or something. I just had this random

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Ghostly Desire by Keziah Hill from Forbidden Publishing.Ghostly Desire by Keziah Hill is novel that was dried out in the sun until it was sixteen pages. If you read it, you will understand why it has a raisin quality. Thea and Judith met when they were both fifteen at Thea's Uncle Osbert's mansion by the sea in Tasmania. Years later when Uncle Osbert dies, Thea inherits the mansion. Judith had

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Vegas Magic: Stacking the Deck by Sara Dennis is sweet. I would give it a B+. Now, I am a lesbian, but even though this is heterosexual romance, I enjoyed it a lot.Sam is witch ready to hit the town with her girlfriends when she sees Alec perform a magic show. That chance meeting leads to a few drinks which get complicated very fast because anything can happen in Las Vegas with supernatural

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Flipping through the March issue of Nylon, I was faced with a conclusion that I just couldn't fight. Scrunchies were back. They were on the pages of Nylon, tutorials on how to make them raced through style blogs, and Sienna Miller was seen with an orange scunchie in her hair. Fashion is truly circular isn't? Scrunchies went from popular to joke, and now they are chugging back to the top.I still

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The Mists of Avalon:Squeeeeee! This book was great. The view of King Arthur and his knights from the view of the women around them was an inspired idea. The prose was lush, and I didn't feel like a word on any of the 876 pages was wasted. Everyone had flaws so that neither Mograine or Gwenhwyfar seemed like perfect people. In fact, Gwenhwyfar got on my nerves a little bit. Mograine's plans sort

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Locked and Loaded: An Erotic Lesbian Romance Anthology (Review) Locked and Loaded edited by SA Clements is a pretty damn good anthology. All in all, I would give it a B. The theme of this anthology is the women who sleep with a gun under their pillow and never go out of the house without a knife

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...which is only news because Korean fangirls may have cornered the market on the ultimate cuteness. Isn't that sign just adorable?THE BEST SIGN EVER! CLICK BECAUSE YOU WILL MISS OUT.

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Anyone else just love looking at pictures to give them a little inspiration? I do. Its not how the picture them selves look or what is in them. Its the feeling that I get from them. Its the way that the colors contrast. Its the names written in the tiny credit font in the corner. I can think of stories about the pictures at a drop of the hat.In my search for pictures on the web, I have found

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Her Black Little Heart by Selah March [het ebook review]Misfits are the underlying theme of story which isn't covered enough in romance. The hero and heroine of Her Black Little Heart are misfits. Outcasts. Outsiders. Adam Brewster, a doctor, is a stranger to the little village of Chop Gate. Leda Cavendish is a rich widow living alone with her son in her estate while the village below swirls with

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Huzzah!Q. Do you accept lesbian erotica? A. In the past we had only considered F/F scenes in works that also featured het or M/M erotica; however, we are lifting that rule and will now consider exclusively F/F works so long as they adhere to our guidelines.Yay! Prepare for the sexing of the lesbian kind, Phaze! (as soon as I write it, of course)Thank you, December Quinn and Selah March for

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!I wish the house didn't smell like cabbage, but thats just what my mother makes for family St. Paddy's day dinner. Nothing brings back memories like the entire Rhys family sitting around the table trying not to let Mom know that we have always hated cabbage.Trust me, nothing turns a person back into a six year old as when they try to figure out how to cover their plate

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Welcome to my blog.As it says on the top, I write a different kind of romance. Now, I hope everyone is sitting when I say this. It just may shock you. I write... lesbian (and frequently erotic) romance in the fantasy genre. Dear Lord, I believe that old Aunt Pearl just fainted. ;) Now, I know that all the people still standing have already shrugged and are waiting for me to be interesting.I, as

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