Dec 19 2008
Dr. Frantz is our resident professor (but not our only literature scholar) whose DA moniker is Joan. She is reviewing primarily m/m fiction that is epublished although she is a reader of a wide range of romance authors with Suzanne Brockmann and Kresley Cole being a couple of her favorite print authors. Dr. Frantz brings [...]
Dec 19 2008
Dear Author is posting their “Best of 2008″ lists for each reviewer in the spirit of the end of the year tradition that many other news organizations started. Some traditionally known Best of Lists are New York Times:(Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser, etc.) Amazon: (The Northern Clemency by Philip Henscher) Publishers Weekly: (Private Arrangements by Sherry [...]
Dec 19 2008
The controversy of the week appears to be the upcoming Suzanne Brockmann book. I believe the book is due out the end of January but early readers have leaked that the coupling of the two main protagonists is not what was expected. This has lead to a firestorm of posts at All About Romance [...]
Dec 19 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. J.L. Miles presents her newest project, Divorcing Dwayne, the first in the “Dwayne Series”, a three-book southern series featuring Francine Harper who is under felony assault charges for shooting at [...]
Dec 18 2008
Stanza and Harlequin have made 4 free ebook minis for the iPhone reader. One of the minis if from Jayne’s favorite authors, Julie Kenner. You can access the freebies via the “Online Catalog” section of the Stanza program.
Dec 18 2008
NYTimes has more details on the Random House restructuring. Susan Kamil will be the editor in chief of the Random House imprint that now houses both Ballantine and Bantam. There have been a number of layoffs at Doubleday which was swept into Knopf and Broadway which is part of Crown. It doesn't look like the layoffs [...]
Dec 18 2008
Dear Ms. Kelly I’m not big fan of holiday stories so one featuring two Christmas haters is probably perfect for me. There’s something deliciously ironic about the self referential nature of the story and the characters attitudes toward the holiday. It seems to me that they would hate Christmas themed stories. Noelle Bradenton overhears [...]
Dec 18 2008
Janine was our third “Ja(y)ne” here at Dear Author. She provides beautifully written, well articulated reviews. She has varied tastes and puts an emphasis on well written prose. Janine is a slow, but careful reader: DELICIOUS by Sherry Thomas*, Grade A CRY WOLF by Patricia Briggs, Grade A
Dec 18 2008
The winners of the 5 paper copies and the 2 ebook copies of the Victoria Dahl book are as follows. The ebook winners will be emailed a coupon code and you can download the format of your choice. The download code is good starting January 1, 2009, at 12:00 am EST. Alys Babs Jude wonderings [...]
Dec 18 2008
The long list of 22 books have been released for the coveted "Romance Novel of the Year 2009" given out annually by the Romantic Novelists' Association. 156 books were submitted. The 22 books will be whittled down to a short list on January 13, 2009. A panel of 80 readers from all over the country, [...]
Dec 18 2008
http://ShelfAwareness Bob Miller's HarperStudio might actually change the publishing world. Borders has agreed to buy stock from HarperStudio on a nonreturnable basis in exchange for discounts between 58-63% rather than 48%. The first of the HarperStudio books will ship this spring. The article in ShelfAwareness suggests that Miller is paying a small advance in exchange [...]
Dec 18 2008
JMC has a great post up regarding reader expectation. Apparently there is some question as to whether a couple of characters who have been together over the course of several books are being torn apart and given an HEA with a different couple. Brockmann is notorious for having what she terms unreliable narrators wherein the [...]
Dec 18 2008
Dear Ms. Samms: Please write more quickly. Or just, more. You’ve got five free short stories (up to 14K words) plus three interconnected mini-shorts on your website, and one recently published short at Freya’s Bower (and one other so far unrecoverable short on a defunct online magazine–if anyone can recover, I’ll love you forever). (Oh, [...]
Dec 18 2008
LA Columnist Sonja Bolle is distressed that 10 year olds are reading the Twilight series because she thinks that it is “one long, bodice-ripping romance.” Bolle admits to reading, nay “devouring” the series. My guess is that Bolle hasn’t read one bodice ripping romance because, the Twilight series is all about abstinence (wait until you [...]
Dec 17 2008
I see alot of books featuring zombies of late and I just don’t find zombies sexy or interesting. The word zombie conjures up hollowed out eyes, drooping skin, and mindless. What say you?
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