May 20 2011
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (2008) Genre: Comedy/Musical/SF Grade: B+ Cheer for the villain? Hate the “hero?” Listen to people sing catchy songs? Have Joss Whedon turn superhero/villain tropes on their heads? You’ll do all this and and more when you watch “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.” For those who’ve never seen it, go now and watch(…)
May 19 2011
Dear Ms. Sheene, When I received a review copy of this book, I was instantly intrigued – first by the evocative, lovely cover, and then by the back cover blurb, which begins,”May 1940: Fleeing a glamorous Manhattan life built on lies, Claire Harris arrives in Paris with a romantic vision of starting anew.” An interesting(…)
May 19 2011
1861: The war that’s been brewing for a decade has exploded, pitting North against South. Fearing that England will support the Confederate cause, President Lincoln sends Charles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, to London. But when Charles arrives, accompanied by his son Henry, he discovers that the English are already building warships for(…)
May 18 2011
Dear Ms. Cooper: When I first received the ARC to Blood of the Wicked, I set it aside. The title and cover looked clearly like a vampire novel and well, I just wasn’t in the mood for YAVR (yet another vampire romance). Then I received a promotional email that said something something “steampunk” and I(…)
May 18 2011
Is Amazon doing some faint quality control? Amazon, in response to customer complaints, request took down a self published title be republished because of grammatical and typographical errors. Dear Publisher, Thank you for your submission of “Title Here” (ASIN: ASIN NUMBER HERE) to the Kindle Store through Amazon KDP. During a quality assurance review of(…)
May 18 2011
Dear Ms. Grant, You are well-known in the online romance community as Katiebabs of Babbling About Books. I’m a fan of your quirky sense of humor and I appreciate your thoughtful, honest reviews. I wish I could say I enjoyed your books as much as your blog. Since I signed on as a reviewer here(…)
May 17 2011
Dear Ms. Ballantine and Mr. Morris, I have an uneasy relationship with steampunk. I want to like the genre, but I feel like the label has become so dilute as to be useless. It seems like anything featuring corsets, parasols, tea, and goggles gets labelled steampunk these days. Sure, there’s usually a mention of a(…)
May 17 2011
Dear Mr & Mrs. Carrington: It used to be that I would never read a book containing infidelity but lately it seems that I can’t get away from it. Books containing infidelity that is, not infidelity itself. When it turned out that this book was going to be a book about infidelity, I decided I(…)
May 17 2011
With the RT awards handed out and the RITA awards coming up, I’m struck by the omission of romances that don’t hew to the one man-one woman formula. Two years ago, I wouldn’t have noticed, let alone felt annoyed. While I’ve read erotic and BDSM novels for at least a couple of decades, I(…)
May 16 2011
Dear Ms. Arend, While heroines aren’t all the sweet young things they used to be when I started reading romances way too many years ago, it’s still nice to read about ones who are over age 30. And to have a younger man hot on her trail and determined to get her just tops it(…)
May 16 2011
Just a few days after the killing of Osama Bin Laden carried out by a special operations group that the press has called SEAL Team 6, Disney applied for and received a trademark for SEAL TEAM 6. The trademark is to be used in conjunction with “toys, games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles; hand-held(…)
May 16 2011
Celeste Bradley and Susan Donovan locked themselves in a hotel room to write Courtesan’s Guide to Getting Your Man on sale May 24, 2011. They wrote this post to tell you why. **** Writing is a lonely job. You spend your days inside your own head. Your workplace is a room in your house, or(…)
May 15 2011
Time again for the best sellers list from Dear Author and Smart Bitches for the week ending May 10, 2011. As with last week’s list, we used our affiliate links, which reward the blog owner with 6-8% of the sale price for each item sold, to compile the list. DearAuthor uses affiliate links for Amazon(…)
May 15 2011
Amazon introduced its Cloud Locker and Amazon Cloud Player and Google has introduced Google Music (beta). Both companies are offering cloud based storage for music. No big deal, right? Wrong. Music labels are concerned because Amazon and Google haven’t worked out a business relationship wherein the music labels and the artists get a piece of(…)
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