Jun 15 2009
One of the greatest challenges facing digital publishing today is the perception gap. That is to say, there is a perceived gap in quality between books published in e form and books published in print by the NY houses. I suffer from the perception gap myself which isn’t helped when I come across books like [...]
Jun 15 2009
A group of elderly residents in West Bend Wisconsin have filed a suit to gain the right to burn Francesca Lia Block’s Baby Be-Bop. Baby Be-Bop is a young adult book featuring a protagonist dealing with his sexual identity. The suit also claims that the group has suffered emotional distress from being exposed to a [...]
Jun 15 2009
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Mandy Hubbard‘s novel Prada & Prejudice is in stores now. *** In late 2005, I heard about a write-for-hire piece at a major publisher, so I sent them a proposal. [...]
Jun 14 2009
Dear Ms. Townsend, Beyond an Egyptian setting, I wasn’t sure what to expect with “Blue Gold” as I didn’t read the description until after I’d finished the story. And what a story. It’s a sprawling 1970s miniseries crossed with a soap opera crossed with the epic sword and sandal movies made only in the 1950s. [...]
Jun 14 2009
Last September I blogged that Literary Fiction should embrace digital publishing because “the psuedo profit sharing that the new arm of HarperCollins is testing: no advances, higher royalties” made sense for the embattled publishing industry. E publishing, with its low overhead, provides a safety net for experimental fiction, the bailiwick of literary fiction. E publishing [...]
Jun 13 2009
ALERT: due to a problem with the original listing, the auction in memory of Edith Layton at eBay had to be restarted. It will expire on 16 June at 11:23 pm PDT. So if you had a bid and now you have a yen to bid again, here’s the new link. We convey embarrassed apologies, [...]
Jun 13 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. *** Lannie Bryan panicked and slammed on the brakes as her Mini began to slide down the hill outside the [...]
Jun 12 2009
Dear Ms. Knight: The first book I read by you was Red Fire (which I thought I had written a review for but could not find in the archives). I enjoyed Red Fire and didn’t hesitate to pick up Red Kiss. The premise of the Gods of Midnight series is that on the last day [...]
Jun 12 2009
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) I Know Where I’m Going! – Criterion Collection Grade B Genre: Romance/Drama (UK) Dear Readers, “I Know Where I’m Going!” is a film made by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger who wrote, directed and produced a number of films in the UK. This one was a kind of “tossed [...]
Jun 11 2009
The subtext of every one of these types of posts is “If you can’t beat them, join them”. Scribd has become a haven for pirated content but given that it commands 50 million viewers per month, it has a market that is hard to ignore. Simon & Schuster is the most recent publisher to avail [...]
Jun 11 2009
Here at Dear Author, the winners of the Tails of Love Giveaway are: Val Ms Bookjunkie Donna S Hooray! I’ve emailed you according to the address you left when you commented. Don’t forget that part II, the raffle, ends tomorrow. Just send your receipt for charitable donation to sbj.contests at gmail dot com and you’re entered to [...]
Jun 11 2009
ACE has partnered with Dabel Brothers to bring a second series of Patricia Briggs’ to the comic crowd. The Mercy Thompson series has already been adapted by Dabel Brothers (has anyone seen one?). The Alpha and Omega series will debut in August as a four part comic series to be fully encapsulated in a graphic [...]
Jun 11 2009
This is the second in a series of polls about digital publishing. One of the concepts that was of great interest to me in a recent thread was this idea of publisher branding. I think within the e-publishing industry, branding matters a lot to readers. I know it does to me. Often I hit the [...]
Jun 11 2009
Dear Readers, Mary Burchell wrote an astounding number of books for Mills and Boon/Harlequin before her death. And before I wrote the review of her autobiography “Safe Passage,” I hadn’t heard of her or her books. What a loss that would have been as I’m discovering that she was an amazing author. Anna was sure [...]
Jun 11 2009
A girlfriend of mine just recently read the whole Twilight series on her iPhone. She doesn’t want to read more Meyer but she does want to read more Vampire Romances. I recommended the first book in the JR Ward series, Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 1), which she bought via the Kindle App on [...]
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