Jun 18 2013
Blackberry Summer by RaeAnne Thayne. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: Claire Bradford needed a wake-up call. What she didn’t need was a tragic car accident. As a single mom and the owner of a successful bead shop, Claire leads a predictable life in Hope’s Crossing, Colorado. So what if she has no time for(…)
Jun 18 2013
Dear Ms. Dee, I enjoyed your book New Life and the premise of this book intrigued me so I volunteered to review it. Unfortunately, The Au Pair Affair did not have the easy flow or the charm of the earlier book. Hollywood producer Dan Krefman and his ex-wife, actress Crissi Jondalar have two children (Cara,(…)
Jun 18 2013
Today is the release date for Colleen Gleason’s next installation in her paranormal romance series: The Gardella Vampire Chronicles. While I’ve been complaining for a while that I think vampires series are a bit played out, this series features fabulous vampire slayers a la Buffy Summers, AND this trilogy is set in the 1920′s, a(…)
Jun 18 2013
Dear Ms. Gleason: I was a tremendous fan of the first of your Gardella Vampire Chronicles series, so I was really excited to hear that you were writing more Gardellas, and intrigued to find they would be set in the 1920′s. Macey Denton works at the library at the University of Chicago. She lives in(…)
Jun 18 2013
Jun 18 2013
Are We Subjected To Literary Skeuomorphism? – This is a hard to read (black background, white text) short blog entry about the idea of literary skeuomorphism or how authors use something familiar to introduce readers to something unknown. This is actually something that Meljean Brook admitted doing in her first Iron Seas book, The Iron(…)
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(…)
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