So it's been almost 2 years since I last posted on the blog but it's been a crazy two years since I've gotten a permanent office job in downtown Manhattan. When I last posted was about two months after I bought my 15" MacBook Pro and I am still loving it much better than my Dell laptop that I bought a few months earlier than my MacBook Pro. I still use the Dell once in a while when I need to use the Adobe Acrobat program to make fill-out forms for work. My MacBook Pro has been such a great purchase even though I had to spend almost $2,000 for it. It took me a bit of time to get use to some of the changes from my PC but in the long run I have had almost no troubles with which is the total opposite of my experience with all three of my previous Dell laptops.


Recently I got a message on my Facebook Fan page from Lisa Watson who works with RT Book Reviews about doing author interviews on my Blog Talk Radio podcast show. I wasn't too sure about doing it since I haven't been doing any author interviews on my podcast except for that one author interview with Susan H. Crowley in July of 2013. But I decided that this was an opportunity that I shouldn't pass up since I really need to get back to what I use to love doing which is reading book that I would post reviews about and interviewing romance authors of all genres about the books that they write. So I think from now on I will try to get myself back into the rhythm of writing book reviews on the blog but like I said it has been a long while since I've done it so bare with me please. I've also been updating my websites with new information but as you know maintaining a website takes a lot of time and mine hasn't been updated since I started it in 2010. I've done a few maintenance updates with the information that I have since changed but I'm using some of my free time from work to get it all done.

15" MacBook Pro

Well it has been almost about 2 months since I bought my 15" MacBook Pro and I have to say that though it's been a process to try learn how things work differently on it than on my Dell PC I'm having such a great time playing on it. I have actually stopped using my PC for now because it has come up with a problem with the Internet Explorer and I just don't have the time to waste to fix it. So now I'm using my MacBook Pro full-time and I'm happy since I have some really nice games which I downloaded thru the Mac store. I can basically do most of the things that I was doing on my PC and there has only been a few things that I had to get use to which is the key board and how to use some of the buttons that aren't on my PC.

It's a very slick 15" MacBook Pro though if I were to get it in a different color than the sliver color it might make it look interesting with that Apple logo that lights up whenever I have my MacBook on. I haven't actually taken my MacBook out with me because I don't have a cover or sleeve or case for it yet and even if I do get one for it I'm not sure I want to take it anywhere with me since it is a really expensive. I'm actually getting us to using Safari since I was able to download my Yahoo! Bookmarks and exported it to Safari with a few problems that I eventually fixed. Now I have everything that I need on my MacBook so I don't even really miss anything on my PC except maybe my Microsoft programs but that I could work around. I'm not going to buy the Microsoft Office for Mac since I've heard such negative reviews along with those positive reviews. Besides that if I really need to use Microsoft Office I can always do what I've been told might work out for me which is using Parallel or Boot Camp to use Windows on my MacBook.

It's been a year since I officially posted a blog here. I got a full-time job in an office last April 2011 and it really took all my attention to get the rhythm of doing my job on a daily bases. I am still reading my romance novels as much as ever but I haven't been reviewing them as I use to. I also haven't been taking any review requests from authors, though there weren't that many interested in the first place. I've been thinking about blogging again since I bought a new laptop recently that has been a real joy to use since it's more high-tech then my previous laptops. I bought an expensive 15" XPS Dell laptop with an Intel Core i7 CPU, 8GB Memory with a 1TB Hard Drive that came with Windows Office 2010 Home and Student but also with Adobe Acrobat Standard X.

40" Class (40.0" Diag.) LCD 630 Series TV

I've watched Netflix on my new laptop and it's almost like watching the movies and tv shows on my 40" LCD flat screen Samsung tv which I also got recently before I got the laptop. I bought the flat screen tv to replace my old 27" tv that I bought with my uncle at a BJ's several years ago and that was taking too much space but also the sound wasn't all that great compared to my new flat screen tv. Since I've been reading print books as well as eBooks on my Nook Color and Nook Simple Touch I have a lot of books I could post reviews for on my blog Talk About My Favorite Authors. I just have been too lazy to get on my old and slow laptop to write my book reviews on my blog so that others could read them. But like I said since I've gotten my new expensive laptop I've been thinking about getting back to blogging and reviewing because I've been thinking of going to the BEA conference.

I'm going to try to post some reviews for the books that I've recently read but I can't make a promise of it since like I said I've been pretty lazy since I started my full-time job as a file clerk at NYCHSRO/MedReview in the Retro Review department.

So can you believe it I'm blogging again in the space of 2 days. Well I just needed to rant my frustation out to someone today about why I am seriously thinking of never ordering online from Barnes and Noble since they are now using this delivery service called Argix Direct which uses the USPS to deliver the packages. The USPS lately has been very bad in deliverying my packages from both Barnes and Noble as well as from other people which is not good at all. I use to get all of my packages delivered on time when it was scheduled to be delivered when they use to use UPS all the time to get their packages to their customers. Don't get me wrong I love Barnes and Noble but they are really getting horrible in their customer service since the Nook came out. I will be going to the post office and complaining about not getting my package when they say it was delivered with a notice left to pick it up. I never got a notice about picking it up and the time they said they delivered it my mom was at home and nobody rang the doorbell to deliver the package.

Well wish me luck about getting my books back from the post office because otherwise I will be asking for a full damn refund from Barnes and Noble who have already charged me for it.

So I know that I have been a very bad girl and haven't been a good blogger or book reviewer since I haven't posted anything since October of 2010 and it's now almost February 2011. Ever since I got my first job at Modell's Sporting Goods store I have been very lazy about posting my reviews of the books I've read when I use to post them all the time previously. Also for the new year I dyed my hair a light blond color that most people say looks better on me than my natural dark brown hair did because this color makes me look like less pale so that it gives me a tanned look.

Now it's 2011 and I want to get back to being the book blogger and reviewer that I use to be so though it going to take some time I will be posting my book reviews on all the books I've been recently reading. I recently got a NOOKcolor for myself as a Christmas present so I've been reading a lot of eBooks as well as the print books that I can't help but still buy to read. I've also taken the 2011 Book Challenge that is going on Goodreads and I have set myself up to read a goal of 600 books this year.

So on Saturday, October 23rd my author website was reviewed by the website 1^st Turning Point. I had submitted my website for review a few months ago when they started that section of their website and I finally got to read one of their reviewers feedback. I was excited to read it and see that the reviewer, Detra Fitch, gave me 4 Parrots in total with a lot of feedback on what she thought was good what she thought I needed to change a bit to make it better. Here is a quote from her review:

If you want to read the entire review and maybe even leave a comment on what you thought of her review you can read it by clicking here!

As many of my loyal readers have guessed I haven't been very active with posting book reviews, author interviews or author guest blogs these past couple of weeks. I posted that I got a job during the summer and it's been taking a large part of my time that reading my books for pleasure doesn't. Then at the beginning of October my mom and me had to start packing all of our stuff because we were moving into a new apartment that we would be sharing with my grandmother and one of my aunts. So all this month I've been dreading moving because I have almost 2,000 books to pack and try to find out how I'm going to get them all situated into the new apartment with out getting rid of any that I couldn't live with out.

Well I'm finally moved into the new apartment and I know that it will take a very long time to adjust to it. I don't have easy access to the internet right now since I have to share the DSL with my aunt's desktop computer since we don't have wireless right not though we are trying to work it out. So I wanted to warn everyone that I'll try to post book reviews as soon as possible because I have read a few books that I need to review soon. I will also be keeping up wiht what I'm currently reading on Shelfari, Goodreads and Barnes & Noble if anyone is interested in following me on there.

Well as you may know I have a website called Phoebe Jordan's Reviews where I set up all the information that I want to share with my review blog readers and visitors about my author interviews and book reviews. Since I finally got my own domain name I set up Phoebe Jordan's Reviews on that domain name and have variously different important and informational pages up that you all might enjoy visiting. For example I have the Featured Author and Book pages that I have finally finished putting up for everyone to check out as soon as possible. There is the general Featured Author and Book where you will find 8 different featured authors and their current releases every month or so. I also have 4 different sub-pages for Featured Author and Book in Erotic Romance, Historical Romance, Paranormal Romance and Young Adult which are genres that I enjoy reading and wanted to share with others about the some authors that may or may not be new to them. If you are a romance of any sub-genre, erotic romance or young adult author and want to be featured along with your current release, Contact Me, with the appropriate information, which is your author bio and your current book title, author name, word count/page number, genre, publisher, format (print or e-book), ISBN/Price and blurb of your novel no less than 2 to 3 paragraphs.

Hey my loyal readers and followers! I know I haven't posted much though I have created posts that I wanted to put up for everyone to enjoy but kind of left them half done. I've been pretty busy since I got a part-time job at my local Modell's Sporting Goods store that is luckily only 15 minutes away from my apartment in the beginning of June. It only now that I've gotten less days of work so I decided to post about it today so that you all wouldn't think that I completely abandoned my review blog because I haven't. I have gotten some new eBooks as well as some print books that I'm going to be posting reviews for very soon though you have to be patient with me since I'm only one person and writing reviews is not always easy.

I'm planning to try and take some of my free time so I can catch up on all those half written blog posts and reviews that I've been meaning to get up here on the blog. I'm also very excited about my author website which I started in March of 2010 and it's completely set up now with all the information about the novels that I'm currently working on which is 1 Paranormal Romance, 1 Contemporary Romance and a Young Adult Paranormal Romance. They aren't finished yet and will need a lot of work but I hope to have them completed as soon as I can though with everything going on I'm not sure when that will be but I will keep you all posted on it. Don't forget that I also have my other websites up and running that you can find on the menu bar under the header of the website.

Well today is my first day at BookExpo America and when I woke up this morning I was very nervous since I have never been the Javits Center before and I was going there alone. I was going to meet up with Tori the Book Faery at 9AM so that we could get to the Press Registration together and then hang out until we would go our separate ways since we have different tastes. I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to since I was just so overwhelmed with how big the place was and how many people there was at BEA. I didn't actually have my entire day planned out like Tori did so I didn't get to see everything that I wanted too but I hope that next year I will plan things much better now that I know somewhat the layout and the chaos of the place. So after leaving my apartment in Queens at around 7:30AM I took the E train to 34th Street Penn Station and I had to walk 5 to 6 blocks in a straight line before I finally found the Javits Center. I didn't know exactly where it was since like I said I never been there but I walked straight from 8th Avenue on 34th Street all the way to 11th Avenue and I finally found the very big Javits Center. There were so many people there that I had to stop in the very hot sun for about 5 minutes to figure out that I was in the right place as well to take out my cell phone so that I can see if Tori was on her way.

Hello everyone! Today is the first day of BookExpo America that is being hosted at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. This is the first year I'm going to be at the BEA since I didn't know about it until a few months ago by my friend, Terry Kate, creator of Romance in the Backseat. I was going to go with her but since she couldn't make it back to NYC from LA this week I had to find someone else that I could meet up with. So I am going to go tomorrow with Tori, creator of the Book Faery book blog since we are both from NYC and have registered as Press to go. I'm going to be taking my Dell Mini-Inspiron 10 with me tomorrow as well as my mom's digital camera so that I can take pictures as well as videos of my time there. I will be posting them as I get them so that you all can experience it with me as I got through the various booth's that will be there. I plan to meet Cathy Maxwell, Linda Lael Miller, Alison Kent, Rachel Vincent and various other authors who are going to be at their publishers booths as well as the authors autograph signings. I'm so looking forward to tomorrow!

I had such a blast this past week interviewing several different romance authors who attended Romantic Times BOOKlovers Convention this year. I got to interview Lauren Dane, MaryJanice Davidson and Lori Foster which was amazing because I have read several of their books which was wonderful to talk about them with the authors. I hope that next year I will get to interview them again as well as other different romance authors  who will be attending the convention that I have yet to interview on my podcast show. I am also looking forward to when the Romantic Times BOOKlovers Convention comes to New York City because I don't have the money to travel at the moment.

I’m am broadcasting several author interview live podcast shows on Blog Talk Radio with the wonderful romance authors who will be going to this year’s Romantic Times BOOKlovers Convention. I hope you can all listen in live and even call in with your questions for the authors. And if you can’t make it live please don’t worry about it because you can listen to the shows any time you want by going to the links provided or even download the shows onto your computer or if you have iTunes you can download it and listen to it on you iPod later.

Phoebe Jordan chats with Keisha Mennefee, an RT BOOKlovers Convention Special – Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at 3PM to 3:45PM EST. Today I have an RT BOOKlovers Convention special show for you because I will be chatting romance author Keisha Mennefee who will be talking about her upcoming debut novel, Blue Interlude. And she may even give us a sneak peek into some of her future books as well as any of her other novels that she may have in the works right now and any other projects. She will be telling us about her writing experience and what she has in the works writing wise.

Phoebe Jordan chats with Lauren Dane, an RT BOOKlovers Convention Special – April 23rd, 2010 at 2PM to 2:45PM EST. Today I have an RT BOOKlovers Convention special show for you because I will be chatting romance author Lauren Dane who will be talking about her novels, Undercover and Relentless, which are the first two books of Federation series and her upcoming novel, Insatiable, which is the third book of her Federation series. And she may even give us a sneak peek into some of her future books in her Federation series as well as any of her other series and novels that she may have in the works right now and any other projects. She will be telling us about her writing experience and what she has in the works writing wise.

I am finishing up my last semester before summer vacation and I have been so swamped with my readings, exams and such that I haven't had time to write up my reviews for all the books that I've been reading for publishers that have sent me books which isn't all that much. So I'm writing today because I need some help with trying to keep my blog active enough so that I don't lose the readers that I've have gotten since I opened my blog 2 years ago. So I'm looking for romance and young adult authors who would like to be interviewed on my blog and also guest blog about their books as well. I also am looking for anyone who happens to review books and wouldn't mind submitting a couple of their book reviews so I can post here with a link either to the original review you posted on your blog or a totally new review that you wouldn't mind me posting and linking back to your blog or website. I really appreciate anyone who can help me out and for my loyal readers who have stayed with me even though I've been a very bad blogger that hasn't kept her content updated regularly.

My apologies everyone that I haven't been posting my reviews daily as I use to but I have been really busy with keeping up with all the reading for my college English classes and everythign else going on in my life. I hope to get back into the rhythm of things soon so don't stop coming back here to visit since I will be having an author guest blogger on here in April for you to get to know better and I've had her on here not too long ago. I will be reviewing her book as well which is the second of her trilogy which I'm very much enjoying. So later everyone!

Well as you can tell from the large badge above it's the New Year's Writers Rumble at Terry Kate's Romance in the Backseat that is hosted by romance author Erin McCarthy and I'm one of the contestants! I actually am committed to winning this contest because I finally am going to sit down and finish a story that I start. I wrote the story called Old Trouble in the New Year and if you click on the badge above you will be taken to the first part of my story. Read it as well as my competition, Louisa's Makeover, so that you can in the end vote for who is your favorite. I hope you like the first part of my story and vote for it! Also I found out that you can vote for my story once everyday until the polls are closed so please vote, vote, vote and vote!