May 31 2007
Two male authors were chosen as the winners of the Gather.com’s First Chapters Writing Contest. Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone imprint will publish Terry Shaw’s, The Way Life Should Be, featuring a reporter who investigates his friend’s death, and a historical thriller by Geoffrey Edwards titled, Fire Bell in the Night. Yes, I pulled the sex [...]
May 31 2007
Dear Ms. Vincent: I was excited about your book after Angie W blogged about it a few months ago. It is an urban fantasy, shapeshifter romance and I really like those books. It’s told in the first person. With a first person narrative, we readers have to WANT to root for the character’s successes and [...]
May 31 2007
Phyl sent me this picture last week and I meant to blog about it. She said I've passed this truck a couple of times on the freeway and today saw it parked out in front of Hobby Lobby and managed to snap a picture with my phone camera. It's an ad for a number of [...]
May 31 2007
Khaled Hosseini’s sophomore effort, A Thousand Splendid Suns, won the No. 1 position. This book is the subject of a huge promotional push but that doesn’t always guarantee placement on a list, let alone the number one position. Hosseini’s debut book, The Kite Runner, is selling briskly and at No. 11. Susannah’s Garden by Debbie [...]
May 31 2007
Dear Ms Law, When Jane sent me a bundle of June release books, I immediately picked yours off the pile to try. I’ve long been a fan of your historicals (please say you haven’t given up writing Westerns) and I wanted to see how you’d handle a contemporary. Well, if you must give up historicals, [...]
May 30 2007
Dear Ms. James: Maybe I am not your audience. I love your writing which is full of historical detail and great dialogue. Each scenes is amazing. The theme that everyone wants what they perceive that they cannot have wove under and around each character and their interactions. What then, when that is the attraction, happens [...]
May 30 2007
Okay, so now maybe the weird publicity material that Harlequin does emphasizing romantic relationships instead of books makes sense. It announced today that it would be publishing a line of non fiction books such as self help, diet, inspirational, memior and biographies. Its first non fiction book, Friends: A Love Story by Angela Bassett and [...]
May 30 2007
Meljean Brook follows up her debut effort with Demon Moon, another smart take on the vampire mythology. Colin is a vampire without compare. Made from Nosferatu blood, he is powerful but cursed. He cannot drink from someone without driving them to madness. And he must drink to survive. When the bloodlust is upon him, drinking [...]
May 30 2007
This past week, I’ve not been returning emails in a timely fashion. I’ve ignored commenters on the website. I’ve been weak about adding “news” to the “news section.” In essence, I’ve been a bad blogger. But I am not the only one. Look around the blogosphere and there are some blogs that have been suspiciously [...]
May 29 2007
There is usually a great hue and cry raised about review copy sales. One reviewer is taking an in-your-face point of view and sells them direct from her site. I’ve got some highly prized ARCs sitting in my curio cabinet. How much does anyone want to give me for Creation in Death? MJ Rose blogged [...]
May 29 2007
If You Deceive, the third and last installment in Kresley Cole's entertaining MacCarrick brothers series, gives the oldest and most difficult brother, Ethan, the chance to find his "forechosen mate . . . For his true lady alone his life and heart can save.–? Not surprisingly, the most difficult brother also proves to be the [...]
May 29 2007
Over the weekend, Gail Northman resigned from Triskelion. This has led to a flood of authors demanding their rights back as Northman, regardless of the questionable email, was considered by some authors to be the backbone of Triskelion. Let’s hope that Triskelion doesn’t go the way of Venus Press. However, authors like Lynne Connolly will [...]
May 29 2007
This was originally posted last August. The book, however, was not in print anywhere as the author had moved publishers. I received notice that this is now available from Mundania Press in both print and ebook form. This is a favorite series of Jayne and mine and one of our first introductions to epublishing. Who [...]
May 29 2007
First its USAToday with its co-branded books and now it is author Nora Roberts. She has moved into icon status, if she wasn’t already before, with her very own bobblehead to be given away at the July 6th Hagerstown Suns baseball game. Hagerstown Suns are the single A affiliate of the Washington Nationals. A number [...]
May 29 2007
In March 2007, RWA decided to review the Publisher Recognition standards. Currently the standards require the following: publisher pay royalties not a subsidy or vanity presss length of business minimum of 1 year sold at least 1500 hardcover or trade paperback or 5,000 of any other format of one romance book Selling to the publisher [...]
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