Comments on: REVIEW: The Crossroads Cafe by Deborah Smith

By: Dear Author.Com | The Crossroads Cafe by Deborah Smith

Dear Author.Com | The Crossroads Cafe by Deborah Smith — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:04:42 +0000

[...] already summarized the storyline of The Crossroads Cafe, I’ll advise our readers to check out her review and proceed to go into what I liked about this book and didn’t work so well for me. [...]

By: Jayne

Jayne — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:18:06 +0000

Several of my friends have been waiting to get copies from Amazon but one already bought one from BelleBooks.

By: Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:29:43 +0000

Thank you Jayne for that amazing review! I really appreciate it. And thanks to all the folks who added comments. Someone mentioned my current publishing status — yes, it’s true, I had trouble getting another contract with a big mainstream publisher after my last few books were published so badly (awful covers, no marketing.) Several editors told me that my kind of big romance novel has no audience and I was even encouraged to switch to one of the hot genres — chick lit or erotic vampire novels! So I decided to strike out on my own. My partners in BelleBooks agreed to publish The Crossroads Cafe. I’m happy to report we’ve sold out the first printing after only a month. There IS an audience for big fat contemporary romance novels! Hurray!

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:41:39 +0000

Let me throw my votes in for A Place to Call Home and Sweet Hush. Didn’t like Charming Grace so much.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:14:31 +0000

Yes, she is part owner of Bellebooks. I included a link to it in the 1st paragraph of the review (The Crossroads Cafe).

By: jmc

jmc — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:40:17 +0000

Smith's A Place to Call Home and When Venus Fell are in my Top 100 Romance Favorites. The mermaids don't quite make the list, but are still pretty good, I think. [That series seems to have stalled a little, though, since it has been a couple of years since the 2nd book with no hint of the third on the horizon.] Some of the later books, like Sweet Hush, don't work as well for me, although I can't figure out why, exactly. Still, I'm glad to see that Smith has a new book out. Seems like I heard somewhere (and this may totally be an internet rumor) that she couldn't get a mainstream publishing contract after her last hardback. Bellebooks is a specialty publisher, I believe, partially owned/run by Smith and other southern writers, producing southern fiction.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:54:00 +0000

Another internet friend of mine also finished the book this weekend and says she likes it as much as “Sweet Hush” and “Charming Grace.”

Nicole- I’ve always meant to try the mermaid series. Maybe having enjoyed “Cafe” will get me off my butt about reading it. ;)

By: Keishon

Keishon — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:52:23 +0000

LOVED, LOVED, LOVED A Place To Call Home. The first half of the book was captivating read when the protagonists were children growing up together and then the other half where they meet again as adults. Very good book if you happen to come across a copy, Jayne.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:31:44 +0000

Wow! I did my review of this one earlier today. Great minds I guess. I liked this book very much as well. I’m so glad you did your review as well. I was bemoaning doing the book justice. This review is great.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:05:50 +0000

Sounds like a good book.

I’ve read one of hers before. A mermaid one that I really enjoyed.