It has been several months now since I first began this blog and website, and I have very much enjoyed developing it and learning more about publishing and sharing books (what did I do before GoodReads?). Now that Burning Embers has been published, I have encountered a whole new area for readers and writers: book reviews.

Through reading reviews on blogs and websites, and on GoodReads and Amazon, I have discovered so many new books and explored new voices and genres that have brought me much enjoyment. With reviewers beginning to read Burning Embers and write about their interpretation of the book, I have been learning about the review process, and I have decided that it will be my pleasure to also post reviews of the books I read.

I have set the following framework for my reviews:

• I will review romance books only, across sub-genres but not extending to erotica, that are new or relatively new on the market.

• I will only post positive reviews (if I don’t enjoy a book, I simply won’t review it), because I want to create positive recommendations that readers can explore, and support authors.

• I will endeavour to post a review regularly – each week or fortnight, my writing permitting.

• I will be happy to receive review copies for romance novels. If you would like me to read and review your book, please drop me an email at [email protected]

I am very much looking forward to sharing with you some of the books I most enjoy, and engaging in discussions on books. As far as I am concerned, there can be no more relaxing and fulfilling way to spend an afternoon than nestled in a garden chair in the shade cast by a plane tree, listening to the cicadas chirp, lost in a world of literary romance.