Angie's Romance Reviews (and trades) Please excuse the horrible grammer. I am NOT an aspiring writer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

Suze Orman is offering a free download of her new book the 2009 Action Plan via Oprah. You can download her book Here till January 15, 2009. I have my copy and will start reading it this weekend.

I really hope to make this year a good one financially and Suze Orman has always inspired me in the past.

Happy New Year…

Please remember to show support for your favorite authors by purchasing their novels new — if possible.

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I have been married for 22, almost 23 years. I would like to pass along a tip that has helped keep us together.

I learned a very long time ago that as much as my husband loves me and SHOULD know me enough to be able pick out great gifts for me, he simply cannot. He is totally freaking clueless as to what makes a thoughtful and appropriate birthday and holiday gift for me — the mother of his children, his lifetime helpmate who is always at his side.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a romance characters sleep together then immediately wake up and make morning nookie. It is not the morning nookie that I object to, it is the morning breath I just know they have. EEEWWWW….

So the Donald on Apprentice is challenging his group to market a new mouthwash that eliminates morning breath. From now on I will pretend that the characters have used Smartmouth before going to bed the night before.

Wonder if it works, cause I hate that skanky morning breath.

I noticed Laurell K. Hamilton has her new book listed on Amazon today. For those of you who love to hate her. . . . .

TA – DA, another freaking 224 page hardback. Shame on her and Ballantine Books/Randomhouse. This trend towards expensive novellas really sucks. Inflation is one thing, greediness is another.

Laurell K Hamilton
A Lick of Frost: A Novel
034549590X
Release Date: 2007-10-30
Binding: Hardcover

Ballantine books – you are shitting me right????. You are charging $20 for a 220 page hardback??? The publisher and author is raking us over the coals and we can’t even protest with a decent book burning. Lighting a whole stack of Mistral’s Kisses would not even produce enough heat to warm my cramped office. No satisfying woosh of flame, just a small smoldering pile of crap…. Oh well on to better books.

Is it just me or are new books getting cheaper and shoddier made? I have two new Avon/Harper books that are starting to come apart and I doubt they will last more than very few readings. Is this a case of saving money by the publisher or some conspiracy to wipe out used books sales?

The two books that are falling apart are: Lynsay Sands, A Bite To Remember and Lisa Kleypas’s Scandal in Spring. Both are by Avon/Harper. I sent an email to Harper when I first noticed this on Lynsay Sands books, but I assumed it may have been a fluke, but to have the same thing happen again a month later with another new book just plain sucks…..