Nov 30 2009
Dear Ms. Danella: What is under (or inside) the cover is a really well drawn high fantasy romance telling the story of clan Redgrove’s First daughter, Alithia, and her quest to get a tablet of mystery. The clan’s sacred flame has been extinguished. Without the flame, the clan cannot prepare its sanctified oils and incense. [...]
Nov 30 2009
Last week, Borders UK was forced into administration due to its outstanding debt. Borders US is a separate corporate entity but does own a small percentage of the UK Borders. Causes of Borders UK decline include internet competition from Amazon.uk and ebooks. Borders UK reported £13.6m in pre-tax losses in 2008. Publishers are concerned [...]
Nov 30 2009
This post is a sticky meaning that it remains at the top of the site. Scroll down for new content. ISony has a new social media site for booklovers called Words Move Me. As a way to promote this, Sony has approached a number of bloggers to share their reading experiences with others and have [...]
Nov 30 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. Sharon Ashwood writes paranormal romances. Her second book, Scorched (excerpt), is available beginning December 1, 2009. *** I’ll say this up front: I didn’t expect any of this. I do [...]
Nov 29 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.
Nov 29 2009
Welcome to the December Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be [...]
Nov 29 2009
I’ve been a long proponent of authors giving away their content as a way to seed new readers. Publishers tend to agree with this concept giving away free digital books or even masses of free paper books. The idea is that the author’s own words is the best promotion. One thing I’ve noticed in the [...]
Nov 28 2009
Dear Ms. Harte: A story that looked, from the excerpt, like it was going to be a quick and cute little Thanksgiving reunion story turned out to be a lot deeper and a lot more…experimental than that. And while a deeper treatment of the issues that the characters have in the story probably wouldn’t have [...]
Nov 28 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. Warning: This first page contains graphic sexual situations. *** Teddy Wilson was in Man-Heaven. The ex-world champion boxer-turned-music mogul was [...]
Nov 27 2009
Dear Ms. Rose, It was actually part of the excerpt for the next book in the “Hightower Affairs” series which got me to get this one as well. If possible, I like to start at the beginning and that seems to be with this memorably Harlequin-esque title “Bedding the Secret Heiress.” Gage Faulkner is the [...]
Nov 27 2009
Jack and Sarah (1995) Genre: Dramedy, romance Grade: B Richard E. Grant can do neurotic better than almost any actor I know. And this film affords him ample opportunity to show this. But don’t think it’s a total downer as he also gets to display his comic timing and is backed up by some of [...]
Nov 26 2009
Dear Ms. Warren: Emily Saunders was in Elk Crossing for “a wedding she didn’t want to attend with far too many of her family and friends asking nosy questions about her own continuing single status” when her hotel becomes infested with bed bugs. Another traveler at the hotel is Jonah Betts playing in his Old [...]
Nov 26 2009
Dear Ms. Rose, As I mentioned in my review of “Bedding the Secret Heiress,” it was the excerpt for this book which got me to get both of them. After my disappointment with “Heiress” I seriously debated whether or not to just call it a day with this series since Trent Hightower hadn’t impressed me [...]
Nov 25 2009
Dear Ms. Richardson, I had a blast reading The Birthday Present, the third and final story in your Countess Trilogy. To readers who have not read the earlier stories, but would like to read this one, I have to suggest reading this series in order. Like The Countess’s Client and An Impolite Seduction, The Birthday [...]
Nov 25 2009
The much maligned Harlequin Horizons (which authors and readers had begun to refer to as HarHo after what I presume to mean that some one is engaging in prostituting herself) has transformed into DellArte Press. It has essentially the same look and feel but there is no mention of Harlequin anywhere. Even the contact person [...]
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