Dec 31 2008
Dear HRH Thermopolis*: I just finished reading your debut novel, Ransom My Heart. It’s a good novel but flawed, but what can you expect from your debut novel that you wrote while your heart was breaking over the loss of your boyfriend Michael when he went off to Japan to court the Asian honeys. I’ve [...]
Dec 31 2008
You know how in romance novels, the heroines sometimes go to the brothel and pretend to be a working girl or sometimes they go with the hero? Well, in a real life Belle du Jour case, a Polish man is surprised, to say the least, when he visited a brothel and saw his wife working [...]
Dec 31 2008
Last week I wondered on Twitter if the recession would hurt the book market. It doesn’t look like it will hurt the romance book market. One twitterer pointed out that movies did great during the Great Depression and apparently it was during that time that the Harlequin imprint really took off. And if Somerville sounds [...]
Dec 31 2008
Terry Pratchett, author of many Discworld books, was knighted for his literary achievements as well as his fierce advocacy against Alzheimer's Disease. Pratchett suffers from Alzheimer's himself and has donated large sums of money to researching the disease. Congratulations Sir Pratchett.
Dec 31 2008
Dear Ms. Townsend, Books set in ancient Rome or Roman Britain automatically get points from me. I dunno why. Maybe it’s the thought of those strong men running around in skirts and draped bed linens. But anyway, I’ve sought them out for years from back in the days when you couldn’t find one for love [...]
Dec 30 2008
Dear Ms. Donovan: Your new book, The Girl Most Likely To reminded me very much of your first two books (Knock Me Off My Feet and Take a Chance on Me), which are my clear favorites of the Donovan oeuvre. The likeable hero, the quirky heroine, the family secret, and the goofy dog are all [...]
Dec 30 2008
Sarahand I have kicked this idea around for a while but didn’t do anything about it until our fairy godmother, Morgan from Miss Media Productions came along and waved her special wand and made it happen. This is our first podcast. I’m driving, Sarah is too close to the phone, and we generally don’t know [...]
Dec 30 2008
In an effort to become THE entertainment retailer on the internet, Amazon is constantly improving itself which is why, in part, we hate it and love it in equal parts. Amazon has now launched "Author Stores ". Every Author Store includes a bibliography and can include biography, author photos and a discussion board. I would expect [...]
Dec 30 2008
This week Harlequin has been giving a book away a day at its ebook site. The first day, I bought a couple of other titles, as the free book looked lonely in my cart. I wondered how many others actually bought books with their free book download.
Dec 30 2008
Lerner Books published "Angel Girl", a kid's book based on Herman Rosenblat's big deception on how he met his wife when they were two kids in concentration camps. The book is now being pulled from the store shelve s and the publisher is offering a refund. For some hilarity on the subject of fake [...]
Dec 30 2008
Today’s guest opinion is brought to you by Jessica from Racy Romance Reviews. Jessica started blogging in 2008 and has provided some great reviews as well as thoughtful commentary. She first came to my attention by Janine linking to one of Jessica’s posts. (Word of Mouth, isn’t it grand?). Jessica started reading romances in 2007 [...]
Dec 29 2008
Dear Ms. Adrian: I have to confess that I like the longer wait between your books. In part because some of the past stories, particularly Lucan’s and Tegan’s, wherein the heroes tended to overshadow those around them. This can linger beyond the story. When I picked up Veil of Midnight, enough time had passed that [...]
Dec 29 2008
Dear Ms. Myers, This book isn’t sunshine and rainbows. Scott and Marisol have both been forced to take classes in the school of extremely hard knocks. So I’d advise any readers who just want a happy, pep-me-up after a hard day at work to save this for a time when they’re looking for something with [...]
Dec 28 2008
From my inbox, apparently historical author and new paranormal author Suzanne Simmons/Elizabeth Guest has passed away. She was part of the Running with Quills blog. You can share your thoughts and remembrances with the group. Thanks Gennita for the heads up.
Dec 28 2008
Thanks to JFerg for the link to this op ed piece in Sunday’s New York Times. Staff writer, David Streitfield, argues that used bookstores are primarily responsible for the declining publishing industry. In other words, the sky is falling because of the secondary market. Don’t blame this carnage on the recession or any of the [...]
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