Dreamspun Desires
There’s something really amazing about getting a package in the mail… you know, one that isn’t a bill. And when that package contains books? It’s a win/win!
This month, Dreamspinner Press has unveiled its first subscription service with a line of category romances that are sure to melt your heart. They have your favorite heroes and a few exotic locations thrown in just for fun!
Category romances were the first romances I ever read. Did any of you read Harlequins? I was addicted! My mom, aunts, and grandma all read categories by the dozen and I remember getting those boxes in the mail. Mom and I were always hooked by the ones with a baby on the cover. And I still find I can’t resist those, not going to lie! LOL.
Dreamspun Desires is a way to recapture the category romances I read growing up, with a new twist: gay heroes! The January titles are by authors I absolutely adore and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on them. On January 1st, M.J. O’Shea’s The Millionaire Upstairs comes out. It’s got the infamous super rich boss and his plucky assistant. Then Shira Anthony takes the stage on January 15th with First Comes Marriage.
What makes Dreamspun Desires even more special is how you can get them! Dreamspinner’s subscription service offers a great price on the paperback version! For $12.99 (plus shipping) you’ll get BOTH paperbacks—and you’ll get one almost two weeks before it releases in ebook format. But as an added bonus, you’ll also receive both ebooks in your Dreamspinner account on their release date.
Are you an ebook only reader? Never fear, there’s a subscription service for you too! The ebook subscription service offers both ebooks for $6.99! That’s the same price as one regular novel! Both titles will be delivered on their release date, but you’ll only have to pay one low price!
Big thanks to Love Bytes for letting me stop by today to talk about Dreamspun Desires! As a special thank you, Dreamspinner Press is giving away two prizes to lucky commenters! All you have to do to enter is leave us a comment with the first romances you read! Were you a Harlequin reader too? Or did other romances strike your fancy?
Poppy Dennison
Prize 1 is a Six Month Ebook Subscription to Dreamspun Desires
Prize 2 is a complete Ebook backlist for Dreamspun author Shira Anthony!
Description:
Love Always Finds a Way
Receive two novels in digital format per month for the price of one regular novel!
Dreamspun Desires are contemporary category romance novels, complete with your favorite heartwarming heroes, captivating plots, and exotic settings. These titles are all about happily ever afters that leave you with a satisfied smile for days.
Our monthly subscription service gives you two eBooks per month for one low price. Each month’s titles will be automatically delivered to your Dreamspinner Bookshelf on their release date.
The service is automatically charged on the 15th of each month for the next month’s titles. Cancel anytime by e-mailing office@dreamspinnerpress.com or using the website contact form.
Prefer print? Receive two paperbacks per month for only $12.99. Both books ship on the 1st of the month, giving you exclusive early access! As a bonus, you’ll receive both eBooks on their release dates!
January
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The Millionaire Upstairs by M.J. O’Shea
First Comes Marriage by Shira Anthony
February
The Stolen Suitor by Eli Easton
The Lone Rancher by Andrew Grey
March
Taylor Maid by Tara Lain
Trial by Fire by B.A. Tortuga
My first (adult) romance book was Power Games by Penny Jordan (published MIRA) and yes, I collected Harlequin books ever since too. Which was why seeing Dreamspinner’s upcoming line is like blast from the past in M/M way. 😉
I still have 50:50 portion between M/M and M/F reads now, don’t see it change in a near future.
Thank you for this post and congrats to DSP for the upcoming new line!
dtorini, I love the Dreamspun blast from the past too! I still read my favorite M/F authors as well, but my heart now belongs to M/M. 🙂
Oh boy, I read Mills and Boon for years. Then I read The Bride by Julie Garwood and things just went from there. Now I read pretty exclusively MM
younela, when I was researching for Dreamspun, I found a few Mills and Boon titles. I was so excited! And Julie Garwood is one of my all-time favorite authors. I have an entire collection of hers. SO GOOD. I think my favorite is The Lion’s Lady. *g*
My favourite is the first one I read The Gift.
The first romances I read where Mills & Boon and then the Harlequin romances. I loved the HEA endings. I am looking forward to the new Dreamspinner Desire books. Thanks for the chance at the giveaway.
There’s something so great about the HEA’s in these titles. So glad you’re excited too!
My first romance was a novel by Kathleen Woodiwiss, my grandma had a couple of her books, and re-read them once a year. After that, I went in search of every book written by her and along the way, I amassed a HUGE Harlequin collection. My books (paperback and ebook) are my treasure. 🙂
Thanks for the chance, I look forward to it!
OMG, Serena. Kathleen Woodiwiss. An absolute favorite of mine. I read A Rose in Winter so many times it completely fell apart and I had to get a new one! Books are my treasure too and I’m so happy you’re looking forward to the Dreamspun line!
I grew up waiting for that monthly Harlequin delivery! I am so looking forward to the Dreampsinner Desire books! Thanks for the chance!!!
I love getting boxes in the mail and I can’t wait for my Dreamspun subscription to arrive!
I started reader Mills and Boon and the first book I read was “Long Cold Winter” by Penny Jordan I’ve still got it somewhere!
I love the Mills and Boon books too. I discovered a few while doing research for this line and fell in love! I’m with you on keeping those early titles that you can’t quite manage to get rid of. I have an entire shelf on my bookcase of them. *g*
The first ones I read were by Rosemary Rogers. I love books. Looking into subscriptions.
So glad you’re interested in the subscriptions. I’m excited about them too!
signed up for my subscription. I love getting books in the mail!! karadg@hotmail.com
Yay! Thanks Kara! I thinking I’m more excited about opening that subscription box than I am for opening Christmas presents! *g*
My first exposure to romance was in science fiction. I only was exposed to category romance once I began babysitting and some homes had them on the bookshelves. For a while I had a subscription when I was in college.
They’re impossible to resist, Susan!
My first romances were the historical bodice rippers I used to sneak from my Mother’s stash. I always read above my age so I had to put book covers on them when I was in 6th, 7th & 8th grade (I went to Catholic school).
I had to sneak them from my mom’s stash too, AM. Hee! Of course, now she just passes hers to me when she’s done reading them. *g*
When I was a kid I read Sci Fi and Fantasy mostly. But, I also loved Jane Austen.
No one will ever surpass Jane Austen for me! Pride and Prejudice is my all time favorite and I’ve reread it a dozen times (if not more!!)
Phyllis Whitney and Victoria Holt were my first romance reads – can’t remember any titles.
Sometimes those authors stick with us forever!
I read Harlequin when I was 12. I had finished everything in the children’s section and the rack of Harlequins were close to the children’s section of the library.
Dame Barbara Cartland, Phyllis Whitney, Victoria Holt, I read everything I could find of them before getting my hands on Harlequin books.
My first romances were Mills & Boon, my mum would get them out of the library and we would both read them, I was probably around 12, Betty Neels and Debbie Macomber were my favourites. Now I want to go read an old Betty Neels!
I think my first romance (historical adventure) books were the Angelique series by French authors Anne and Serge Golon which I read in my mid teens. I seem to recall that she was not a typical female protagonist (particularly as it’s set in 17th century France) but a strong and independent woman, which I liked A LOT! This was later followed by the traditional Barbara Cartland, Mills & Boon and later Harlequin romances, before I stopped reading m/f romances as I couldn’t relate to the simpering co-dependent supposedly modern women and they drove me nuts. The historical romances I read (including Stephanie Laurens) were actually better at portraying strong female protagonists, strangely enough.
Hanne
(Avid reader since the late 1960’s) ?
My first romances were Glenna Finley romantic mysteries given to me by my grandma to read. It wasn’t long before I moved on to her Harlequins. I would spend the night with her and stay up until 2 in the morning reading. Then I moved on to Silhouette.
My first English was The Sweet Valley High, I was in my teen in the USA, my mother language is Italian, and those books were nice and easy for a foreign language studing English
I am another Mills and Boon-er (the UK equiv of Harlequin).
Can’t remember the first ones I got but I did used to get the Blaze and Desires monthly 4 delivered each week!
My first romances were Harlequin that I would sneak into the house or sneak out of the books my grandmother would pass onto my mom to read.
Oh, wow, FIRST adult romances? My memory sucks big time so I can’t really recall the title. BUT, I did read a lot of Harlequin romances in my teenager years. Names like Penny Jordan, Barbara McMahon, and of course, the incomparable Nora Roberts.
I consumed those titles, which put a dent on my budget because they were English books and a little bit more expensive for a teenager/new adult girl like me, almost two decades ago. I wouldn’t change a thing *lol*. Loved the ‘trademark’ cover of the new M/M Dreamspun Desires, totally blast from the past!
I still read both MF and MM nowadays, almost equally. Don’t see it will change anytime soon.
Wow, the covers really take me back. My first romances were by Kathleen Woodiwiss and Johanna Lindsey. 🙂 My favorites were always historicals. Luckily the library was close by since I always read through them so quickly.
My grandma would buy whatever books were on the bestseller list, get shocked by their content, and leave ’em around half-read. So, I’d sneak-read them all whenever I stayed overnight. Judith Krantz’s I’LL TAKE MANHATTAN was the one I remember most (though even then when I was WAY too young, I wish they hadn’t faded to black when the gay character was about to get it on with his male model!)…
My first romance read was a Harlequin book that I can’t remember the title of. It had to do with a ranch, secret child and a ranch. I do remember my second romance though and that was Shades of twilight by Linda Howard.
Back before the internet when books were rationed to 6 a fortnight from the local library, I would become so bored I would sneak into my mum’s room and ‘borrow’ her Harlequin books. I was eventually caught. She did not think this was appropriate for a 9 year old. Then I was allowed my mother and father’s share of fortnightly books, but it was too late – I was hooked on romance.
I loved Harlequin Intrigue – I loved getting that box of books every month!
Wow what a great prize package! I think the first romances that I read were the historical bodice rippers that I “borrowed” from my Mother! Once I married and had my own things I gravitated to Harlequin Silhouette Desire line and couldn’t wait for them to arrive!
I had a subscription to Harlequin Presents, SuperRomance and Historicals. Used to love them all. Glad this is coming around in our Genre.
I started reading my older sister’s Harlequin and Regency romances. What amazing prizes!
My first romance novels were all from Danielle Steel. A friend from high school used to read them and pass them on to me.
So many really good authors started out with Harlequin. I used to get the books when I lived up north where there were no bookstores. Those packages made my day each and every time. It’s so nice to see the same idea again.
I’m so excited for these. I spent all my babysitting money on harlequins. I can’t wait to read them in mm!
Okay, my first romances were Emily Bronte and Louisa May Alcott. I didn’t read Harlequins until middle of high school. I still read them! 🙂
When I was a kid, a relative gave me a box of very old classic Harlequins.
The first romances I read were Barbara Cartland. I still have a box of them around here somewhere. Then I graduated to Harlequin and Masquerade.(Still have those as well). 😀 My mom was a subscriber, and loved those books. Looking forward to these books. Thanks for the chance
My first romance book is The Flame and Flower. My mom had a subscription to Harlequin Presents and their first book was Gates of Steel. I loved sharing those books with my mom throughout her life. Thank you for a chance to win.
I started reading Nora Roberts, then moved on to everything cowboy I could find. Now it is MM for me. Thanks for the post!
congrats Serena S & Lori S !
Thank you very much!!