May 16 2009
Dear Ms. Teglia Thank you for sending me a copy of your latest release, Animal Attraction. This is a stand alone full length story featuring Chandra Walker, an ordinary shop girl who finds out that her rare werewolf genes makes her a target for an all male pack looking for an alpha female, a queen. [...]
May 16 2009
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Once upon a time-Is that how all the stories used to start? After all this time, all this loneliness [...]
May 15 2009
Apparently you have to have an M in your name to star in an authortalk video theses days.
May 15 2009
JACK KILBORN is the author of Afraid, a new horror novel available from Grand Central Publishing. It is also the pen name for award-winning thriller writer JA Konrath, who has published seven novels and dozens of scary short stories. He lives in the suburbs of Chicago, and his website is www.jackkilborn.com. BLAKE CROUCH is the [...]
May 15 2009
Film review: Down With Love (2001) & Strictly Ballroom (1992) Grade: B- & B+ Genre: Romantic comedy Dear Readers, It hasn’t been a good week. A DVD I bought from an online shop for this week’s review – a Cary Grant/Doris Day film – has a scratch, which rendered it unplayable. I went to a [...]
May 14 2009
It’s not romance fare But if you like zombies, well This rec is for you Small indie press book Think it started out as blog? Now is a cult hit. Ignore the cover (I think it is hideous) Book is engrossing. Written diary Soldier’s viewpoint of zombie Apocalypse. Yay! Jaiku loves zombies. But not cutesy, [...]
May 14 2009
Dear Ms. Sinclair. I first heard of your novel when someone posted the cover on their blog. And speaking for myself, I can safely say the cover did its job. It caught my interest, stuck the title and your name in mind, and when I got the chance to review it, I was positively gleeful. [...]
May 14 2009
I have a hard time with love triangles. If done right, some poor nice guy or girl is totally getting the shaft at the end. If done wrong, some initially poor nice guy or girl is demonized by the end to justify that person being cut out of the happy ending. (Like Hardy in Sugar [...]
May 14 2009
Dear Ms. Hudson, Keeping track of everything in previous books of a series must be hard enough when you’re the only author, but to manage it with two different people writing in the series is something I admire. The lower grade is because this isn’t really a stand alone book. I think readers could start [...]
May 13 2009
The following are the three winners of the Goddess of the Hunt. These are the last three ARCs that Tessa has. (I would throw my copy in if I had one!) Babs Kate K Lorraine The following are the twelve winners of the digital format Legend of a Werestag. I threw in a couple of copies [...]
May 13 2009
Janine: When Jaili (Maili) and I recently found out we were reading the same little-known book from 2008, Dru Pagliassotti’s Clockwork Heart, we thought it would be fun to discuss it here at Dear Author. But first, a plot synopsis: Clockwork Heart takes place in a fictional Industrial Age city-state called Ondinium. One of Ondinium’s [...]
May 13 2009
Complements of Lori S Green aka Jimerick. So many authors I greatly admire Have suggested I read Georgette Heyer Who in Regencies name Has well deserved fame So The Grand Sophy I thus did acquire. When Sophie and her cousins first meet The youngsters fall straight at her feet She has a dog and a [...]
May 13 2009
Dear Ms. Feisty: Even though I got this book for review, I decided to go ahead and purchase an ecopy as that is my preferred mode of reading and I hadn’t read it pre-release. I haven’t seen Warner/Grand Central put out much of any erotic romances so I was curious to see what this story [...]
May 12 2009
According to PublishersMarketplace (subscription needed), the data shows that there is close to 1 million Kindles out in the wilds of readerdom and that the previously provided statistic that if a book is available in print and Kindle, 1 out of 3 purchases is a Kindle purchase is confirmed by at least one major publisher. [...]
May 12 2009
Dear Mrs McLeod, Reading your Regency novellas is like snacking on a few petit fours with a smooth cup of coffee. A nice, small treat that hits the spot and leaves me satisfied without pigging out. Emilina Brook is a young woman of good family who is in a situation all too familiar to the [...]
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