Mar 31 2009
Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general? Post away.
Mar 31 2009
Dear Mrs. Sims, I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect of a Gay Victorian romance novel written by a mid-west cookie baking grandmother. But I guess it just goes to show that 1) readers should never prejudge a book and 2) any author can write about anything if the story is in them to be [...]
Mar 31 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Dear RWA Members*: Can we talk about the RITAs? I don’t mean to harsh on the nominees. Indeed, some of my favorite authors were nominated this year and some of my favorite authors have won in the past. Oh, we all have our quibbles about who was left out [...]
Mar 30 2009
Dear Ms. Jordan: I’m an admitted fan of the HP line. I think its the length of the book, the emotion impact you get in a short time, and, well, for the lulz. Julie Simmonds is accosted in the street by an expensively clad man standing next to an expensive car. He claims that the [...]
Mar 30 2009
Dear Ms. Kleypas: Sometimes I think I’m the only one who didn’t love your first two contemporary romances.I liked Liberty and Hardy, but I became so attached to them that certain things like Hardy’s uneven characterization and Liberty’s choice in men left me dissatisfied. Smooth Talking Stranger was a chance to start anew with two [...]
Mar 30 2009
Orbit is offering AFRAID by Jack Kilborn as an eBook available for $1.99 for the month of April. Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley is Orbit’s $1.00 title. Ruckley’s new release, Fall of Thanes, will be available on 5/3/09 and the other title in the series, Bloodheir, is also available in ebook format. (Someone seems to be listening to [...]
Mar 30 2009
As reported at GalleyCat, Dear Author is revising its review policy to achieve two goals. First, we want to encourage publishers to move to digital arcs as an option for reviewers. Second, we want to enable our own reviewers to accomplish their reading/reviewing in as painless a way possible. As authors may know, almost all [...]
Mar 30 2009
Out in the book writing world (which, on a Venn Diagram, is a separate by slightly intersecting sphere of the reader world that DA inhabits), there was a controversy over a series of twitters with the hashtag #queryfail. #Queryfail represented a number of agents and editors giving out advice, in 140 words and less, about [...]
Mar 30 2009
Scribd has 55 Million visitors, lots of pirated books, & burgeoning legitimate business interests. A couple of weeks ago, Scribd announced that it had an agreement with Random House to host full length free works by popular authors like Tess Gerritsen whose work on Scribd was “read” 30,000 in three weeks. This week, brings us [...]
Mar 30 2009
Welcome to the My First Sale series. We used to host this on Fridays but starting now, we will be hosting these stories on Monday to make space for our new Friday Film Review feature. In the First Sale series, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in [...]
Mar 29 2009
This is our Author Promo Thread for April. It’s a place for authors to tell us about their awesome April releases. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be released in that month (i.e., anything released during the last week of March would be an April release) [...]
Mar 29 2009
I had a reader email me because she couldn’t get Stanza Desktop to work with her iTouch nor could she get Calibre to work with Stanza. After much trial and error on her part, she got both to work. She gave me permission to share these results so that if anyone else was having problems, [...]
Mar 29 2009
Photo via Flickr. Until about 4 months ago, I hadn’t really grasped the concept of cloud computing. Alot of tech people would talk about it as if it were the holy grail and it was a concept used to applaud the innovation behind the Kindle. Unfortunately, I didn’t really get it. Cloud computing is the [...]
Mar 29 2009
There are going to be some slight changes at Dear Author (and some major ones) while we tweak our schedule. Dear Author is three years old April 4, 2009, and in order to stay fresh and interesting, we’re going to be adding new content and paring down some old content. Sundays have always been about [...]
Mar 28 2009
Dear Ms. Daley, Modern methods of crime solving fascinate me. I admit I’m a real life CSI junkie and can watch a whopping amount of cable shows which explain how law enforcement officials crack a case. The description of this book The only witness when a single mother mysteriously vanishes? Her three-year-old daughter. FBI agent [...]
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