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While I’m not writing about Mrs Crane, per se, she wlll be mentioned…

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March is National Women’s History Month, with this year’s emphasis on celebrating women in science and technology. I’d like to draw attention to a very controversial and colorful woman: the nation’s first war correspondent: Cora Crane, a true rebel of her time.

Born in Boston in 1865, the young Cora enjoyed all the amenities of a well-educated Bostonian. She had the habit of either marrying men who were successful or had been born to money. Her first husband, a federal collector for the Port of New York, was a gunrunner and gambling-house operator. She married husband number two, Captain Donald William Stewart, the son of Sir Donald Martin, the Commander in Chief of India for Queen Victoria, and set up house in England and partied in London. When the Captain had been promoted to command operations in the War of the Golden Stool (don’t you love the name), his…

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I know

I am a terrible blogger. I don’t say much, and usually it has to do with my only published work. 

Well, that’s not going to change this time.

I received a review on Goodreads that left me smiling and happy all day, yesterday. I have to share it, as I think Tiya Rosa just coined my genre.

02/17 Tiya Rosa gave 5 stars to: The Red King by Rosemary O’Malley 
bookshelves: fave-couple-or-threesome, hurt-comfort, m-m, favorites 
status: Read in February, 2013 

This was a delicious combination of chin hands and porn. Kind of like the literary equivalent of someone quoting Shakespeare to you while they take you from behind, holding your hair for leverage and roughly slamming away. You want to go “awww shucks” and “fuck yeah” all at the same time.

This was an intense, comparatively long read about Rory, his campaign for vengeance against his childhood tormentor and all around jackass, Maarten, and his salvation of and by the beautiful Andrew. 

O’Malley created a vivid world and such compelling characters that as long as the read was, it didn’t feel dragging at all. The MCs had chemistry in spades, the dialogues felt authentic, and the supporting characters were each realized that you could tell one from another.

This is the author’s first solo writing work, and it was brilliant, romantic, and sexy. Can’t wait for what she dishes out next.

Chin hands and porn?!?! That’s brilliant. Perfect. I love it so much, especially with her description of the term right after…gah, so much love. 

I know a lot of writers don’t read their reviews. Maybe I shouldn’t, but I would have never seen that I I hadn’t!

The Red King on Goodreads is here, and Tiya Rosa has fabulous reviews all over the place!

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I am so honored! Even with the shame of misused words, I’m glowing and proud!

Speak Its Name

A man abused and discarded is left to rebuild himself with naught but vengeance in his heart. A youth cruelly torn from all he knew and loved is cast adrift with no hope for the future. What will happen when Fate thrusts them together?

He is known as Ruaidhri and his extraordinary strengths and stamina are said to be born of the Devil. His ferocity is matched solely by his ruthlessness. For seven years, he has sailed his ship the Taibhse with one goal in mind: to avenge the years of torment he suffered at the hands of a depraved Danish lord. He has one final plan to succeed, but he searches yet for the implement.

His family destroyed by violence and his body enslaved to a brutal master, Andrew’s future promises only misery. He is saved from this desolate fate by a pirate captain with fiery hair and an…

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