Jul 16 2008
Over the weekend, over 1 million iPhones were sold and lines are still forming outside Apple stores to obtain the latest innovation from Apple. The software update allowed for the existing half million phones to add third party applications. Since Friday, over 10 million applications have been downloaded from the AppStore. 8% of the Applications [...]
Jul 16 2008
The current copyright protection allows for libraries to copy “a work in their collections that is damaged, deteriorating, lost or stolen or whose format has become obsolete” three times. As Ars Technica notes, this means that no copying can be done until destruction or damage is actually underway. The Library of Congress has noted in [...]
Jul 16 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: I’ve gone on a bit of a Mallery glom and the readers here will have to suffer along with me. Delicious is the second book I read in the Buchanan series. I read book 2, Irresistible, first. I’m not sure whether knowing the outcome of the story in Delicious affected my enjoyment [...]
Jul 15 2008
Dear Readers, Since this review covers my responses to nine short stories and two novellas, I’ve decided that for the sake of clarity, it would be simper to address this letter to you rather than to eleven authors. Tangle XY is an anthology featuring a variety of same-sex love stories. All the romances here have [...]
Jul 15 2008
Samhain is hosting a Kindle ebook giveaway. The first book is Nate from Beth Williamson. You can download the ebook for FREE from Monday July 14th through Sunday July 20th. Book Details: Kindle ASIN: B000W5MIOE Paperback ISBN: 978-1599986593 Cover Blurb: Amidst the post-war chaos that rains down around them, a controlling man and a desperate [...]
Jul 15 2008
Books on Board is discounting all the romance titles in its catalog than were released since May 2008 and of all thrillers. Some recommended titles would be Susan Mallery’s Sweet Talk and Kresley Cole’s Dark Desires After Dark (Lick My Horns as I like to call it) or Suzanne Enoch’s After the Kiss.
Jul 15 2008
more cat pictures That was the end of Grogan… the man who killed my father, raped and murdered my sister, burned my ranch, shot my dog, and stole my Bible! If you’ve ever seen "Romancing the Stone," you’ll recognize this line as the last one in Joan Wilder’s latest Western, the one she’s narrating at [...]
Jul 14 2008
Dear Ms. Green, Holy batshit, Batman, here we go again. It’s back to the alternate reality world you’ve created with the Hunstmen – hot men who roam in twin brother pairs looking for a good woman who likes it like that. Trying to keep sane via the emotional energy they can unleash from her following [...]
Jul 14 2008
The New Yorker’s cover this month features about every Obama slur possible on its cover. It’s obviously meant to be satiric but is it? My thinking is that if you put McCain on there as a Manchurian candidate, while ironic and satirical, it would also be offensive. Of course, media shouldn’t shy away from being [...]
Jul 14 2008
Joy Nash has 50 advanced copies of her October release, Immortals: The Crossing to give away during the 50 days preceding my release date of September 30. She’s looking for 50 websites to participate in the “50 Days 50 Books Giveaway” by featuring The Crossing on your site for an online giveaway between August 12 [...]
Jul 14 2008
According to the American Association of Publishers, 79 publishers have reported $670 million in sales for the month of May. This is a 1.8% decrease from last year and 0.7 % decrease for the year. Adult hardcovers and ebooks increased and Childrens’s/YA Paperback had a slight increase while every other category suffered a decline. You [...]
Jul 14 2008
We are starting a new series called “If You Like” which will be hosted by various readers, authors and bloggers of Dear Author. The purpose of the post and the comments is to explore what we like about a particular iconic author and what other authors have books like the iconic author. We’ll leave this [...]
Jul 13 2008
You may not have heard, but Friday saw the release of the newest iPhone. It’s a 3G phone that sold for $199 (8 GB) and $299 (16 GB). Also released on Friday was the newest firmware for the iPhones and iTouches which made available third party applications for the first time*. Two of the third [...]
Jul 12 2008
Dear Ms. Roberts: Usually your single title books work for me and work well. It’s the single titles, not the JD Robb books or the categories, that made me a fan. Unfortunately, I never quite grasped hold of the characters in Tribute. I like Cilla well enough but Ford, well, I did not lose the [...]
Jul 12 2008
Welcome to Query Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a query or a first page to be read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. Published authors may do so under their own name or anonymously. *** Present Time Beliel rocked back, the bare skin [...]
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