Feb 21 2012
Sarah Wendell attended Tools of Change and has two round up post. Post 1 Post 2. This post had interesting information about Goodreads. One thing that caught my eye was this: “Angela James asked during the Q&A what the minimum threshold of ratings a book needed to have in order to be added to the [...]
Feb 21 2012
Yesterday we had a guest post from Lucy Gilmore, the editor of the Harlequin Presents line from Mills & Boon about how connected series, like The Notorious Wolfes, gets created. Caitlin Crews shared with us the Bible that the authors are given to create the series. Today each author shares a bit about their story [...]
Feb 20 2012
Dear Ms. Wallace: In my quest to read more pack romance fiction, I requested this book from NetGalley. You left a comment here in our February Open Thread for Authors about the book stating that it contained a nice alpha werewolf who had no interest in being a pack leader: It does not have fated mates. [...]
Feb 20 2012
News An author by the name of Mainak Dhar has several self published books for sale and many of his books have an average of 4 stars with over 200+ reviews. The number of high ranking reviews is propelling sales. Alice in Deadland, one title, had been lingering on the #1 Kindle sci fi spot for [...]
Feb 20 2012
I emailed Sarah Morgan and asked if she would take us into the world of connected series books. Mills & Boon published a terrific, eight book connected series called the Notorious Wolfes (US) or Bad Blood (UK). Heroically, she came through with insight from the Harlequin Presents editor and all of the eight authors. It’s [...]
Feb 19 2012
Week ending February 14, 2012 Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell A | BN | K | S Heat by Lee Smith A | BN | Are Her Husband’s Harlot (Mayhem in Mayfair #1) by Grace Callaway A | BN | Standing In The Shadows by Shannon McKenna A [...]
Feb 19 2012
Two of the largest technical publishing book conferences have just finished their sessions as of last week, Digital Book World in January and Tools of Change this past week. I attended neither but I paid attention to the articles and tweets that were written of and around the conferences. There did not appear to be [...]
Feb 18 2012
Dear Ms. Laverentz: This book was originally reviewed by Jayne about four years ago, and I intended to read it after she wrote her review but then other books caught my attention and I forgot. I ended up buying this book in January because it was included on a sports romance list at Goodreads. It had [...]
Feb 18 2012
Dear Ms. Fine: During my Christmas holiday, I sped through a number of young adult stories either self published or published by smaller houses. This is one of the better ones I picked up. It’s novella length. According to my handy dandy Calibre word count plugin, the Kindle file clocks in at a little under [...]
Feb 18 2012
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. From Susannah to Paris San Francisco, September 14 Dear Paris: On this day of thunder and heavy storm over northern [...]
Feb 17 2012
Dear Ms. Rice: Sometimes authors and readers have some kind of strange sychronicity where everything that author writes hits all the buttons of the reader and everyone else on the outside looks on in befuddled wonderment. Objectively I can see that there are things that don’t work very well in this book. There is the [...]
Feb 15 2012
What’s this? Penguin discounting books? Flat Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy * $3.99 * A | BN | K | S *recommend* Master of the Night by Angela Knight * $3.99 * A | BN | K | S Bygones by Lavyrle Spencer * $3.99 * A | BN | K | S Wicked Nights by [...]
Feb 15 2012
From reader Shula is this fantastic article about romances at The Awl. According to the reader, “The Awl is one of a quartet of blogs (think Gawker media) that also includes The Hairpin, a ladyblog. What I thought particularly interesting was that instead of posting the article there, where one might assume something written by [...]
Feb 14 2012
Dear Ms. Burton: Charlotte Wellington remade herself from itinerant carnival fortune teller to high powered and extremely successful criminal defense lawyer. Her past is one she doesn’t talk about but the circus’ return to town and deaths stalking women related to the occult make it difficult for Charlotte to keep her secret. Her sometime [...]
Feb 14 2012
News Great real life romance stories include: A) Herbert Carter and Mildred Hemmons via CNN. Two people who typified the Tuskagee Airmen experience. Brave trailblazers. Mildred was the better pilot but not allowed to fly during the war. The two carried out their courtship in the air: Seeing each other in flight created a bond. [...]
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