Trade Review Roundup: Week of April 1

We are happy to share trade reviews for titles across two of our imprints this week. Click "read more" below to learn more about each title and author.

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Booklist reviewed Forever My Hero by Sharon Sala​

Sala dramatizes serious situations and lots of action, along with an appealing small-town romance.

Read the full review online here.

Sharon Sala is a long-time member of RWA, as well as a member of OKRWA.  She has 115 books and novellas in print, published in six different genres – Romance, Young Adult, Western, Fiction, and Women’s Fiction and Non-Fiction.  First published in 1991, she’s an eight-time RITA finalist, winner of the Janet Dailey Award, five-time Career Achievement winner from RT Magazine, five time winner of the National Reader’s Choice Award, and five time winner of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence, winner of the Heart of Excellence Award, as well as winner of the Booksellers Best Award.  In 2011 she was named RWA’s recipient of the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017 Romance Writers of America presented her with the Centennial Award for recognition of her 100th published novel.
Her books are New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly best-sellers.  Writing changed her life, her world, and her fate.
For book list, go to her website: www.sharonsala.net

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Booklist reviewed You Had Me At Jaguar by Terry Spear

[Terry Spear] weaves romance, action, and adventure into an enjoyable experience.

Read the full review online here. 

USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear has written over sixty paranormal and medieval Highland romances. In 2008, Heart of the Wolf was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. She has received a PNR Top Pick, a Best Book of the Month nomination by Long and Short Reviews, numerous Night Owl Romance Top Picks, and 2 Paranormal Excellence Awards for Romantic Literature (Finalist & Honorable Mention). In 2016, Billionaire in Wolf’s Clothing was an RT Book Reviews top pick. A retired officer of the U.S. Army Reserves, Terry also creates award-winning teddy bears that have found homes all over the world, helps out with her grandbaby, and she is raising two Havanese puppies. She lives in Spring, Texas.

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Kirkus Reviews reviewed My Dog Made Me Write This Book by Elizabeth Fensham, illus. by James Lancett

The happy ending may inspire readers to pick up Ugly's next misadventure, My Dog Gets a Job.

Read the full review in the April 15 issue of Kirkus Reviews ​or online here.

Elizabeth Fensham lives in Victoria, Australia, where she is Head of English at a local school. She is married to an artist and has two adult sons. Fensham has been writing in earnest for the last twenty years. Her first novel, The Helicopter Man, won the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers in 2006.