Friday, November 10, 2006

Romance Readers at Heart reviews Blue Moon Enchantment!


My scribe is a mess when it comes to reviews. Let's face it, authors (my scribe included) want all readers to love their stories, and of course this fervent desire leads to sniveling fits of insecurity. So unsightly and rather undignified, but there you have it. This diatribe is to explain to you why my scribe hopped around the house like a total idiot when she read the review for Blue Moon Enchantment on Romance Readers at Heart.

Special thanks to reviewer Heather Hiestand, who wrote:

Short stories have returned to romance! I adore short stories and had long wondered if they would ever be in favor in our favorite genre. Luckily, Highland Press has been putting out trade paperback volumes of the form, and BLUE MOON ENCHANTMENT is the second in a series about wishing under a magical blue moon (the second full moon in a month).

The stories range all across many romance subgenres, having as their only continuity a wish made under the blue moon, so there is something here for everyone. The authors also vary, from newly published to veterans with multiple full-length novels to their credit. You will meet mules and highwaymen, soldiers, teachers, interior decorators, ladies and widows, through various times and locales, both real and paranormal.

Particular standouts to me were the stories by Jill and Julia, Jacquie Rogers, Judith Laik, Michelle Scaplen, Ann Marie Bradley and Sherrie Holmes, but all of the stories have a unique twist on the influence of a wish-granting moon, and the power of true love.

Heather Hiestand

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