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Read more about the article What’s the point?

What’s the point?

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:17 January 2023
  • Post category:General Fiction/Opinion/Readers
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When you think about it, the majority of Romance tales are fables expressing a lesson. Most stories, by my observation, show the angst and problems that occur without clear communication.…

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Romancing readers

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:1 November 2022
  • Post category:General Fiction/Readers/Romance/Writers

While not all my books qualify as Romances, all so far have contained an element of romance within the story. Perhaps a psychologist would suggest I am looking for a…

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Read more about the article Who are we?

Who are we?

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:19 July 2022
  • Post category:Adventure/Fantasy/General Fiction/History/Mystery/Opinion/Readers/Romance/Science Fiction/Western/Women's Fiction/Writers

"Better the lies that exalt us than the truths that demean us." That saying may be well known, and many may agree with it, but it would more accurately be…

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Read more about the article What is that?

What is that?

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:21 June 2022
  • Post category:General Fiction/Readers/Writers

In reading Sense and Sensibility, I found references I had never seen before. Some were explained in a "Notes" section at the back of the book, others I could guess…

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SECOND EDITIONS

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:18 January 2022
  • Post category:General Fiction/Readers/Writers

Nobody is perfect. And self-publishers without editing staff are especially prone to typos and other mistakes in the final product. But even well-known authors with publishing houses and armies of…

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Read more about the article JUDITH MILLAR

JUDITH MILLAR

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:5 January 2021
  • Post category:Featured Author/General Fiction/Opinion/Writers

Most of the books we read are mass produced by large companies like Harlequin, Dell, Penguin, and so on. Some may have been published by smaller companies like Medallion Press…

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Common Threads

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:3 November 2020
  • Post category:General Fiction/Readers/Writers

In a series of books, the main characters may return for new adventures, or their offspring or other relatives may appear in their stead. And devotees of series enjoy seeing…

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Heroines

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:20 October 2020
  • Post category:Adventure/Fantasy/General Fiction/History/Horror/Mystery/Readers/Romance/Science Fiction/Thrillers and Suspense/Western/Women's Fiction/Writers

Once upon a time women in novels were frail creatures always in need of rescuing, or silly dolts who could not be expected to know the time of day, or…

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Read more about the article Condensed Books

Condensed Books

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:6 October 2020
  • Post category:General Fiction/Readers/Writers

Shortened versions of books have been popular for some time, condensed editions that (hopefully) have all the emotion and action of the story without the extra descriptions and scenes that…

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Read more about the article Over and Over

Over and Over

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:22 September 2020
  • Post category:General Fiction/Readers/Writers

Some think it absurd to read a book more than once. Others reread because they forgot they have already read it. And another group simply enjoys the same tale again…

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FROM THE QUICK-READ SERIES

I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST:  that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.”  He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular.  And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

FROM THE TWIN TALES SERIES

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly.  To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess.  Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence.  At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event?  Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals

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