Jun 17 2013
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin. $ 2.99 Amazon & Google Play From the Jacket Copy: In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the(…)
Jun 17 2013
Dear Ms. Reed, Your blurb caught my attention. The book held it. Sydney Warren is a successful painter of erotic landscapes—just the artful fantasies of a woman whose own life has been stripped of passion. Though she has stayed loyal to her boyfriend, Max, he’s unable to ignite the sparks they once shared, leaving Sydney(…)
Jun 17 2013
New York City, 1920s Bootleggers are breathing down hotelier Harry McMahon’s neck. So when a beautiful, young, and very wealthy widow from Paris turns up at the Cotton Club, Henry sees it as the perfect opportunity to combine business and pleasure. First he will take her body, then her heart, and finally, her money… Elise(…)
Jun 17 2013
In the interest of information sharing, I bring to you three things from my inbox: Tomely is a retailer site devoted to indie books. It looks like a Smashwords competitor and is designed to work with ePub, Kindles, and even the iBooks App. You can even send to “Readmill”, an iOS reading app that I’m(…)
Jun 16 2013
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. $ 2.99 Amazon & Google Play From the Jacket Copy: Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author’s mother years after his suicide, the book(…)
Jun 16 2013
We are big fans of Nalini Singh’s works here. I’ve been following her Pys Changeling books since 2006, when the first title Slave to Sensation was released. Seven years and twelve books later, we learn some secrets and find ourselves on the cusp of a civil war. It has been an amazing journey. The following(…)
Jun 16 2013
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. You can submit your own First Page using this form. Neither the press nor any other media network heralded the(…)
Jun 16 2013
I have a friend whose tastes in books are somewhat similar to mine. She would frequently ask me what I purchased and I found so many times that our tastes overlapped. Why not share an ebook account, I proposed. We both have multiple Kindle devices and so I signed us up for a joint gmail(…)
Jun 15 2013
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: The book that inspired the Academy Award–winning short film, from New York Times bestselling author and beloved visionary William Joyce. Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. But every story has its upsets. Everything in(…)
Jun 15 2013
Dear Ms. Dark: I had high expectations for this book after reading the Recommended Read review from Sunita of In His Eyes. Unfortunately the magic of that resonated in In His Eyes for Sunita didn’t carry over for me into Just for Today. It started out poorly when the hero, Sean Paterson, is described as the black(…)
Jun 15 2013
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. You can submit your own First Page using this form. The air was a tangible thing, snaking along his skin,(…)
Jun 14 2013
Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: For a handful of gold, Madame de Morville will read your future in a glass of swirling water. You’ll believe her, because you know she’s more than 150 years old and a witch, and she has all of Paris in the palm of(…)
Jun 14 2013
Devon Knows How They Make It So Creamy – The Windflower (Apologies if this title makes no sense to you – go here and be illuminated) If The Windflower was a person, it would be this person: And, you know, what’s particularly excruciating about that? Every instinct I possess was screaming at me to get(…)
Jun 14 2013
Dear Ms. Chase: Thank you for re-releasing your novella The Mad Earl’s Bride. I missed it when it was released in 2009 in the anthology Three Weddings and a Kiss. The Mad Earl’s Bride has the tone of my favorites of your books: witty, smart, and sweetly sexy. It even has Bertie Trent in it–as well(…)
Jun 14 2013
Choose Your Own Adventure Series Heading for the Big Screen…Wait, Huh? – I’m not really sure how this will work. Will everyone be given an electronic device and vote for the ending that they want to see? In a big theatre, I don’t see this as functioning well. At home? In an app? Maybe. LitReactor(…)
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