5 stars for Dragon’s Code! Enter our $25 gift card giveaway to celebrate 50 Years of Pern!

Posted on September 30, 2018October 3, 2018 by Dragon Authors

Dragon’s Code, by Gigi McCaffrey

$25 gift card giveaway! Keep reading for details!

If you haven’t read any of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series, you really need to start at the beginning. But don’t worry, you don’t have to read all 20-something titles before you get to this one! Just six: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, The White Dragon, and Dragondrums. (Links at the end of the post.) There’s a bit of plot overlap between Gigi McCaffrey’s new one and the last couple, but if you’ve read the others, that’s part of the charm.

For those of you who have loved this series since it first came out (I’m not old enough to make that claim, but I’ve loved it since I first discovered it), you’ll feel the same way about this one that I do.

5 stars, for bringing me back home.

Links for Dragon’s Code:

Links for Dragonflight:

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All $2.99 or less! Game of Thrones, Name of the Wind, Red Queen!

Posted on September 29, 2018September 29, 2018 by Dragon Authors

When ebook retailers compete on price, it’s readers who win!

The news appeared on iBooks this morning. Great deals on unputdownable reads. So we checked around, and the prices are crazy everywhere. Just $2.99 or less for each of these bestselling ebooks. (A Game of Thrones and The Name of the Wind are both on our 5-star list. Red Queen is on our TBR.) We’ve listed each book individually, with links to the major ebook retailers, just to make it easy. These deals won’t last long, so get them while you can!

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Naked werewolves and NMT covers. What’s the deal with fantasy romcom cover art? (P.S. We love this one!)

Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 by Dragon Authors

How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf, by Molly Harper

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of fantasy romcoms have covers that don’t imply any humor? They just look like regular romance novels. (A.k.a. naked male torso covers. NMT covers? Sure, let’s go with that.) In fact, they often don’t suggest any fantasy element either. But it’s the fantasy and the humor combined with the romance that makes them so special! What gives?

Here’s one that manages to get both the humor and the romance across visually, so I’m adding it to our new fantasy romcom tag. (It’s already shaping up to be a pretty sweet blog section!) But, hey, maybe I’m in the minority here. Which do you like better? This kind of illustrated, humorous cover for a fantasy romcom? Or a classic NMT cover? Which one would you be more likely to pick up? Which one does a better job of delivering on the “promise” that the cover makes about the read?

Do you read fantasy romcoms for the fantasy, for the humor, for the romance, or all three?

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Just $1.99 today for this fast, suspenseful crime thriller! 5 stars!

Posted on September 27, 2018October 3, 2018 by Dragon Authors

The Body Reader, by Anne Frasier

After reading the blurb, we were expecting the main character’s body-reading ability to be a bit over the top–in a good way! We love abilities that verge on the supernatural. As it turns out, Anne Frasier based those abilities solidly in the real world. (If anything, they’re underplayed.) But the plot kept us turning the pages, and, in the end, we didn’t care that it was more of a straight crime thriller than a supernatural one.

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Help us find this fantasy romcom a forever home! (Even if we have to build it ourselves.)

Posted on September 26, 2018September 26, 2018 by Dragon Authors

Enchanted, Inc., by Shanna Swendson

Erin, here. I don’t get riled up very often, but I’m stomping around like an ogre in a hobbit shire today. Why? Because I’m on a fantasy romcom kick, and, apparently, Amazon doesn’t have a category for that. I mean, seriously? There’s a whole category dedicated to literary critiques of 18th-century philosophers and poets, for heaven’s sake! (The number 2 best-seller in that category has zero reviews, by the way. Toss those episodic poets some love, people. I mean, come on.)

I noticed it while looking at today’s feature. I thought, “Hey, this looks great! I’ll post this one, and I’ll find some more like it to add to our list over the next few months!” Only, when I clicked on its category listings, none of those books were anything like this one. At all. Let’s look at some examples, shall we?

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