Daily Deals: Contraband lace, tapestry sewers, multi author collection

Daily Deals: Contraband lace, tapestry sewers, multi author collection

Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: His lust for power gave him everything. But it might cost him the love of his life. The Bishop hired her for a simple job: embroider a tapestry. It is an enormous work, a cloth trophy of the conquest of England. But(…)

REVIEW:  Tangled by Emma Chase

REVIEW: Tangled by Emma Chase

Dear Ms. Chase: Tangled is narrated Drew, a horrible person. He says horrible things.  Thinks horrible things.  Half the time he comes off slut shaming and half the time he comes off misogynistic.  Yet, every time that I think he’s gone beyond the pale, I’m drawn back in.  At the end of the book I’m(…)

Why Amazon, Google, and others want to serve as your currency

Amazon introduced Amazon Coins last week. Everyone with a Kindle Fire was offered 500 Amazon Coins which equaled $5.00. The coins can be used for apps and games. By using Amazon Coins, Kindle Tablet owners will save 10% automatically on apps and games because you receive a 10% discount when you purchase more coins. But(…)

First Page: The Jane Austen Project

First Page: The Jane Austen Project

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. They had warned us that we might feel strange at(…)

Daily Deals: Chasing things toward fulfillment

Daily Deals: Chasing things toward fulfillment

Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: First in a brand new series about a Chicago graduate student’s introduction into a society of vampires. Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it was Merit’s. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he(…)

REVIEW:  Nameless by Claire Kent

REVIEW: Nameless by Claire Kent

Dear Ms. Kent: At first, I was a little distressed because the hero is a lawyer and the heroine is a legal assistant (not at the same firm, though). It’s fairly hard for me to get lost in the world of make believe when the characters are so familiar to me. However, there was not(…)

First Page: Out of Time

First Page: Out of Time

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. London—September 1, 1861 Agent Julia Richardson prided herself on her(…)

Daily Deals: Southern Ladies and Northern Scotsmen

Daily Deals: Southern Ladies and Northern Scotsmen

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: Read Beth Hoffman’s blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her(…)

REVIEW: For My Lady’s Heart by Laura Kinsale

REVIEW: For My Lady’s Heart by Laura Kinsale

It’s Not Easy Being Green – For My Lady’s Heart This review might be a little shorter than usual, because all I really have to say about For My Lady’s Heart is “it’s awesome.” Thanks for reading! See you next week! Okay, I should probably say a little bit more than that, but this will(…)

REVIEW:  The Rebound Girl by Tamara Morgan

REVIEW: The Rebound Girl by Tamara Morgan

the “Cliff Notes” version of my review Dear Ms. Morgan: I did not like this book. For starters the heroine, Whitney Vidra, is a nasty piece of work: self-absorbed, manipulative, bitchy, and oh so superior to all the lesser beings around her. I endured page after page of her being a she-dick, waiting in vain for her(…)

Friday News: Amazon responds to its customers and creates a New Adult category; Big Book to Movie Flops; Diddy in Downton Abbey?

Amazon.com: New Adult & College: Kindle Store – Amazon rolled out a few new categories to its bookstore yesterday including New Adult & College and Sports filed under Romance. I think this is a great start and I’m glad to see Amazon move away from the BISAC codes to be more responsive to the consumers. (…)

Daily Deals: Marriage of convenience; love triangles; and male cooks

Daily Deals: Marriage of convenience; love triangles; and male cooks

Yours for the Taking by Robin Kaye. $ 2..99 From the Jacket Copy: He might be too good to be true… Ben Walsh shouldn’t be single. Handsome and wealthy, Ben is equally at home in Idaho where he grew up and in Manhattan where he’s now an art dealer. Suave and successful with impeccable taste,(…)

REVIEW:  True to the Law by Jo Goodman

REVIEW: True to the Law by Jo Goodman

Dear Ms. Goodman: I love your books.  I particularly love the slow way that they unfold, like a scroll unfurling as you toss it down a long set of red carpeted steps and then slowly wind it back up as you read each word and each sentence. Your books are for savoring.  Alas.  True to(…)

Debut Print Book & Giveaway: Game On by Tracy Solheim

Debut Print Book & Giveaway: Game On by Tracy Solheim

I’ve had some concerns by readers who are primarily print readers that the coverage at Dear Author has been too focused on ebooks. When I asked the readers what they were interested in seeing, they responded that they would like to know more about print debut authors. We developed a little questionnaire and every Wednesday(…)

REVIEW:  Heart of the Dragon’s Realm by Karalynn Lee

REVIEW: Heart of the Dragon’s Realm by Karalynn Lee

“Princess Kimri is used to betrayal. Her brother sold her to a king in exchange for swords to defend his lands. King Tathan’s reputation is as fierce as that of his mountain kingdom–where dragons are said to guard the castle walls–but the realms are unstable enough without angering the mountain-king, so Kimri reluctantly agrees to(…)