Mr Real by Carolyn Crane (Code of Shadows #1) Self-published (Oct 2012) Ebook, 360 pages Paranormal Romance Mr Real lives up to the saying ‘be careful what you wish for’ and it’s unfortunate that Alix hadn’t thought of that before she ordered herself up the fictional character Sir Kendall. Alix discovers the hard way that she has inherited more from her aunt than just a nice house. Within her aunt’s belongings is a computer programme that allows her to select an image from the internet and voila, twenty four hours later…

Character and Reader Fear Levels: Some Handy Graphs! Happy All Hallows Eve! And thanks so much to Book Chick City for inviting me over here. My topic today is FEAR!! Okay, maybe I shouldn’t be confessing this in a post, but one of the hardest things for me as an author is getting a character’s level of fear right. If you dial the character’s level of fear too high, you have a paranoid character. If you let it be too low, you have a too stupid to live (TSTL) character….

Wild & Steamy (Anthology) by Carolyn Crane, Jill Myles, Meljean Brook Self-Published (Aug 2011) Kindle Edition, 119 pages Paranormal & Steampunk Romance KITTEN-TIGER & THE MONK by Carolyn Crane Reviewer: Gemma Reading shorts in an anthology can be a hit or a miss at times. You either have the short stories, which are part of a series that read like they are deleted scenes and you really need to be up-to-date with that series to have a Scooby on what is going on. Or you have the other short stories, that although they…