Oct 17 2008
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Cindy Gerard writes romantic suspense. She has a trilogy, Black Ops, Inc., out this fall. *** Hey all. My first sale story probably mirrors a lot of authors. The truth [...]
Oct 16 2008
Dear Ms Griffin, You impressed me with your response to my review of your previous book, “One Wrong Step.” When I finished it, I wasn’t sure I would care to read another of your books. But your email offering me a copy of “Thread of Fear” sparked my interest because a) of your gracious offer [...]
Oct 16 2008
I am always fascinated by the vagaries of Playboy Magazine because if porn isn’t successful in print, what can be? According to an article on Gawker, Playboy is laying off 55 people, cutting 80 jobs, and ending DVD production. Instead, Playboy will focus on selling its digital archives and merchandising. I suppose with the rise [...]
Oct 16 2008
I admit to not knowing the breadth of privacy laws in every country (I barely know them here) but I have to say I was completely surprised to read a report that Great Britain is laying out a plan that would allow its government to allow “state surveillance to cover every phone call, email, text [...]
Oct 16 2008
Dear Ms. Hubbard: When I first started this book, I thought it had a lot of promise. It featured a romance author heroine and had kind of an insider’s tone to the story which I thought romance readers would get a kick out of. But then it took a turn, a nose dive even, resulting [...]
Oct 15 2008
I admit that I prefer books written by women. I don’t really know why but if I stand in front two books, one written by a man and one by a woman, I’m picking up the book by the female author NO MATTER THE GENRE. When I buy kids books, though, I look at the [...]
Oct 15 2008
Dear Ms. Hamilton, The “noir” style seems to be hot right now. Or maybe I’ve just stumbled across a few lately. The title of your latest book, “The Last Embrace,” certainly fits the profile being both slightly sexual and slightly dangerous. Not having read many of the classic authors of the style, I had to [...]
Oct 15 2008
When I first read this article in Time magazine, I thought for sure it was a hoax. A Google widget to protect yourself from emailing drunken messages over the internets? Surely not. I then googled it and sure enough, Gmail has a new feature called Mail Goggles. An email won’t be sent unless you can [...]
Oct 15 2008
There was an article on Gawker the other day that NYTimes is planning to cut 20% of its editorial staff in 2009. I’m not sure what number that translates into but the report goes on to say that most of the cuts will be in the newspaper’s “softer” sections. Is Arts & Leisure a “softer” [...]
Oct 15 2008
Via my favorite tech blog, Gizmodo, is a link to cellphones.org which has a post today about deciphering your girlfriend’s text messages. Punctuation periods are a bad sign. Exclamations generally good except if you have an excitable gal. “um” should be taken negatively and “Walk?” should always be returned with a “yes” because there might [...]
Oct 15 2008
I chatted with an author the other day who mentioned how grateful she was to be at a certain point in her career given the economy. Looking at the news this morning, I am thinking she might be doubly grateful. According to the New York Observer, publishing is tightening its belt and if you don’t [...]
Oct 15 2008
Announcement for the Readers Down Under (is that a proper noun?) In February 2009 the inaugural Australian Romance Readers Convention is being held in Melbourne. There will be talks by Sherrilyn Kenyon, MaryJanice Davidson, Stephanie Laurens, Susan Donovan, Susan Grant and many many more. Panels will cover all types of romance fiction from ebooks to [...]
Oct 15 2008
Last month, Jia reviewed a new to us YA book called Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It’s a story about a teenager forced to fight in a brutal game to the death against 23 other teenagers. Others decided to read it and so we thought it would be fun to have a Book Club discussion. [...]
Oct 15 2008
Dear Ms. Banks: Thank you for sending me, Into the Lair, the second in the Falcon Mercenary series. It might surprise you want I liked and didn’t like about this story. Into the Lair takes up where Into the Mist left off by following shapeshifting brothers Ian and Braden as they hunt down the sister [...]
Oct 14 2008
Dear Mr. Lanyon, When we posted Sarah’s guest review of Anah Crow’s book , we got numerous posts lauding the fact that we had put up an m/m themed book and (seemingly) wanting more. I’m not a math wiz but I can put two and two together and began hunting through the m/m offerings of [...]
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