2007-03-20

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2007-03-20 09:01 am

Thanks to Jade Buchanan!

thanks to Jade Buchanan [livejournal.com profile] jadebuchanan to add me as a friend. Your Felinae series is very intriguing. ciao, elisa
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2007-03-20 09:01 am

Thanks to Jade Buchanan!

thanks to Jade Buchanan [livejournal.com profile] jadebuchanan to add me as a friend. Your Felinae series is very intriguing. ciao, elisa
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2007-03-20 07:10 pm

Sometime I wonder if kindness still exists...

I own an independent bookstore. It's little, it's beautiful and it's mine. Really from the bookstore I gain very little, my profit is from the connected restaurant-caffetteria, still I struggle to mantain my bookstore. I'm specialized in minor publishers and new authors. When I host an author I post the event on my site, I send for two weeks the newsletter (1000 email address!), I print posters to hang on my bookstore and I send the news to the local newspapers. And I ask nothing to the author or to the publisher: other bookstore ask money to host authors, specially new authors, but I want to give the opportunity to people and writers to meet by person. Most of the time the event has a medium average success, sometime a big success and sometime is a total flop. One week ago I hosted a new author, not very famous, but he has the lucky that his novel was published by a medium important italian publisher. But the event was a disaster: three people, and the author was very pissed. But what could I do? drag the people inside the bookstore? Other times when it happened authors were sorry but they didn't accuse me. Today I discover on the author's website that he has written that I'm an amateur bookseller, that other authors must not trust me, he says "fuck me" (I don't know is this is the exact translation, in italian is a very bad bad expression). I'm angry but I'm also sad: I don't understand why people are so brute and so negative.
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2007-03-20 07:10 pm

Sometime I wonder if kindness still exists...

I own an independent bookstore. It's little, it's beautiful and it's mine. Really from the bookstore I gain very little, my profit is from the connected restaurant-caffetteria, still I struggle to mantain my bookstore. I'm specialized in minor publishers and new authors. When I host an author I post the event on my site, I send for two weeks the newsletter (1000 email address!), I print posters to hang on my bookstore and I send the news to the local newspapers. And I ask nothing to the author or to the publisher: other bookstore ask money to host authors, specially new authors, but I want to give the opportunity to people and writers to meet by person. Most of the time the event has a medium average success, sometime a big success and sometime is a total flop. One week ago I hosted a new author, not very famous, but he has the lucky that his novel was published by a medium important italian publisher. But the event was a disaster: three people, and the author was very pissed. But what could I do? drag the people inside the bookstore? Other times when it happened authors were sorry but they didn't accuse me. Today I discover on the author's website that he has written that I'm an amateur bookseller, that other authors must not trust me, he says "fuck me" (I don't know is this is the exact translation, in italian is a very bad bad expression). I'm angry but I'm also sad: I don't understand why people are so brute and so negative.
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2007-03-20 10:29 pm

Atlanta (The Wild Wild Mess 1) by Jayha Leigh

What happen when a afro-american southern woman meet an viking-french berserker man? Do you think a lot of wild wild sex? And you are wrong. It happens that the six feet seven inches 250 pounds berserker recognize his soul-mate and starts a six long and tender wooing to convince a stubborn woman that he is the Man, and not only another man.

Atlanta is a thirty years old self made woman with a passion for sports. She own a sports bar and she has a food life. She has no need for a man, unless he is the Man. And when she meet Steele, she falls at first sight. But even if she knows (without try) that sex will be great, she doesn't think that Steele will want a commitment. He is a very rich and very handsome "white boy".

But Steele has other ideas and no matter what Atlanta thinks, she will be his, and his only, forever.

A very funny story, more a chick lit than a romance: an afro-american bridget jones who meets an odino's warrior!

http://www.loose-id.net/prod-Wild__Wild_Mess__Atlanta-416.aspx


Cover Art by Anne Cain
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2007-03-20 10:29 pm

Atlanta (The Wild Wild Mess 1) by Jayha Leigh

What happen when a afro-american southern woman meet an viking-french berserker man? Do you think a lot of wild wild sex? And you are wrong. It happens that the six feet seven inches 250 pounds berserker recognize his soul-mate and starts a six long and tender wooing to convince a stubborn woman that he is the Man, and not only another man.

Atlanta is a thirty years old self made woman with a passion for sports. She own a sports bar and she has a food life. She has no need for a man, unless he is the Man. And when she meet Steele, she falls at first sight. But even if she knows (without try) that sex will be great, she doesn't think that Steele will want a commitment. He is a very rich and very handsome "white boy".

But Steele has other ideas and no matter what Atlanta thinks, she will be his, and his only, forever.

A very funny story, more a chick lit than a romance: an afro-american bridget jones who meets an odino's warrior!

http://www.loose-id.net/prod-Wild__Wild_Mess__Atlanta-416.aspx


Cover Art by Anne Cain