New review of 'ABOVE ALL'

Yes, two in two days! By a delightful coincidence, Pants Off Reviews have also just reviewed Jane's ABOVE ALL, awarding it four 'pants off'. Their comments include the following:

I really like Jane Elliot’s writing, its fun and gets the serious stuff across but does it in a light way. Jasper really steals the show in the book, he's so crazy jealous and gets off on revenge (I want him as a friend). He is always up to something wicked and totally hilarious. If you want a light fun read, then Above All is a book to check out I am just so happy I took the chance and read it.

New review of 'ABOVE ALL'

'Hearts on Fire Reviews' have recently delivered their verdict on Jane's delightful ABOVE ALL:

I loved that these men, neither of which has had a true m/m relationship before, don’t immediately jump into bed together (well, sex wise!) and have perfect unions. No, even their first kiss “wasn’t a great kiss. It wasn’t even a very good kiss”. Brian wouldn’t open his mouth, their noses were in the way, it wasn’t working. But it had the potential to be something incredible. As does their relationship. Their eventual sexual relationship is fraught with disaster, painful and awkward, something you can completely see happening in real life.

We're very glad they liked it so much!

Survey at ALLROMANCE

Our friends at AllRomance eBooks have asked us to help publicise an anonymous survey currently running on their website - specifically, as they say, to help them explore 'some issues about DRM and sharing'. The survey pops up immediately when you open their site here. If you have time, please go on over and answer a few questions for them (it will only take five minutes at the most), and spread the word to other readers too. Thank you!

New review of 'FOOL'S OATH'

While we're busy bringing out new books on a regular basis, it's very reassuring to know that people are still discovering - and reviewing - some of our slightly older titles.

Chris Quinton's FOOL'S OATH has just come to the attention of the reviewers at the Paranormal Romance Guild who, as you may remember, have an unusual 'dual review' format wherein two people review and discuss the same publication. In this case both reviewers seem to have been very impressed (and, indeed, why not?!) but unfortunately we can only quote from one!

This vampire is one cool customer, he shows the world a calm, quiet, dangerous side and he shows Xavi his softer side. If his looks and overall personality weren’t enough to pull me to him, the fact that he knows Xavi for exactly what he is and still cares for him would have me in his pocket.

New review of 'BUTTERFLY HUNTER'

Reviewer Lucy at Hearts on Fire Reviews has just posted her assessment of Julie's BUTTERFLY HUNTER, which begins with the following wonderful words:

How very lovely this softly flowing, sweet story is. It is extremely character driven (with the butterflies in question needing to be considered a character as well), with a setting that is at once beautiful and dangerous. It is written in such a way that it draws you in without you realizing, and I ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting because I wanted to see what happened.

That's exactly the sort of comment we most like to read!

The Comcast saga rumbles on

1&1 are apparently 'still working on' the Comcast problem, whatever that means. They've just e-mailed to advise us to send e-mail attachments to Comcast users by another means 'momentarily' (we presume they mean 'temporarily') - only about four days after that solution had actually occurred to us. 90% of the time they're a perfectly fine company to deal with, but when something goes wrong like this you really have to find your own solution to the problem; frankly, their technical support is neither technical nor supportive.

Statistics for August

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone who keeps track of our exploits, but our best seller for August has been Julie's BUTTERFLY HUNTER. As a result of that one highly enthusiastic review - and presumably word of mouth as well - sales have been very impressive; in fact, August 2012 has even edged out November 2011 as the most successful month since we started trading, and we've been kept very busy filling orders!

Not too busy, though, to keep track of our response times which, when crunched, averaged out at four hours and 46 minutes.

We have also learned two interesting things, which we record here for whatever value they may have:

1. Comcast seems to have our email provider, 1&1, flagged as a source of spam. We have tried repeatedly, but we can't seem to send emails with attachments to Comcast addresses - or to one particular Comcast address, anyway - although plain emails get through without difficulty. After raising support requests with our provider - and getting nowhere - we took the easy way out and got ourselves a backup account on Googlemail. Comcast, it seems, has no objection to Googlemail ...

2. A customer who had trouble making our online shop/Paypal combination work, and who had tried different browsers as we usually suggest, solved the problem by deleting her credit card from Paypal and then promptly reinstalling it - which would seem to indicate that the problem was with Paypal rather than with us. While we're sure the same thing won't necessarily work for everybody, we also thought it was a tip worth passing on. We should probably start thinking about having an FAQ/Troubleshooting page on the website, really!