Jan 12 2007
Dear Ms. Cabot: I’m a full on fan girl of yours. I read all of your books, even your young adult ones. The first in this series, Size 12 is Not Fat, was very cute and fun to read with a hint of a future romance. This second book was a cute, fun but the [...]
Jan 11 2007
The Telegraph Herald is reporting that paragraphs of Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Rising have eerie similarities to fan fiction. Now, I did advocate allowing fan fiction to be written, but I don’t know that it should be read!
Jan 11 2007
Dear Ms Quinn, As Jane says, I love me some swashbuckling. As historically incorrect as it is, I love Errol Flynn’s “Robin Hood” over any other version with its sword fights, stave fights, and lots of archery. I guess I must have misread something into your description of your medieval story because I kind of [...]
Jan 11 2007
Publishers’ Group West is a distributing arm of American Marketing Services. PGW also distributes books like Dark Horse Comics. One of the largest publishers distributed by PGW is Avalon PUblishing Group. It is now being sold to Perseus who has its own distributing arm and Perseus has announced it is going after other accounts of [...]
Jan 11 2007
Dear Ms. Hart: You came on the blog a while back during a discussion about erotica and erotic romance. You were very upfront about the fact that your book was erotica. I kind of poo-poo’ed most erotica as being a woman’s sexploration which didn’t sound very appealing to me. As your release date rolled around, [...]
Jan 10 2007
Dear Ms. Gregory, What can I say but, my goodness, that was different from what I normally read. Honestly I’m not even sure what caught my attention in the book blurb. I guess I thought this might be some kind of alien mild meld, meeting of two different cultures kind of thing. Well, it’s that [...]
Jan 10 2007
Borders sales, like BAM and Barnes & Noble, saw a decline of sales this holiday season. Borders is partnering with Gather to create reader communities. You can earn points for participation that can be redeemable in the form of a gift card. That’s a decent bribe. Per Publisher’s Weekly.
Jan 10 2007
Dear Ms. Gracie: If you should perchance come by the blog and see your name, my suggestion would be to pass over this review. I hate to be saying the following things about your book, but I’ve got to be honest and it’s not going to be pretty. A Perfect Stranger was a book I [...]
Jan 9 2007
Dear Ms Cach, I’ve been following your writing career for years now and one thing’s for certain, you don’t just write the same old same old. Even when you revisit certain themes, such as ghosts, you handle the issue in a new and different ways. This time at bat we have a contemporary story, set [...]
Jan 9 2007
Sony is bullish on the eReader. According to the AP via Mobile Read, Sony Reader sales are better than expected and that Sony is planning to release a new Reader this year. Hopefully with better software and better controls and maybe an integrated light?
Jan 9 2007
The Macworld Keynote is taking place right now. Steve Jobs said that contrary to published reports, iTunes is doing phenomenally well, surpassing Amazon to be the #4 retailer of music in the market. Next up is Target, the #3 retailer. iTunes sells 58 songs a second and has sold 50m TV shows and 1.3m movies. [...]
Jan 9 2007
iRiver showed off a prototype of a two screened e-reading device. I don’t really think I like this design, but it is more booklike than the Sony Reader. Via Endgaget
Jan 9 2007
DISCLAIMER: The following opinion letter WILL contain spoilers for Cameron Dean’s Candace Steele series. The post may contain cursing, negative statements toward the author, the publisher and basically the world. If you don’t like mean statements, I suggest not reading on. I’ve done all I can do to tell you not to read this post. [...]
Jan 8 2007
Dear Ms. Balogh, I’ve been on a hot streak of enjoying good books lately. All good things come to an end sometime, but I’m sorry it had to end with Simply Love. I’d been looking forward to Anne Jewell’s story since I first encountered her in Slightly Scandalous, expecting that a Mary Balogh Regency era [...]
Jan 8 2007
Do you enjoy the cover contest run by readers at The Cover Cafe? Now is the time to nominate the best and the worst of 2006. Link here.
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