Apr 22 2012
This year’s Romantic Times convention was my fourth in a row. Since my first visit, RT has underwent a dramatic change and much of it has to do with moving the focus away from cover models and toward the readers. In 2012, RT did not have a Cover Model pageant and while there were cover [...]
Apr 22 2012
DA/SBTB Bestseller List, Week Ending April 18, 2012 Master of Crows by Grace Draven A | BN | K | S The Only Gold by Tamara Allen A | BN | K | S A Week to Be Wicked (Spindle Cove) by Tessa Dare A | BN | K | S I Kissed an Earl: [...]
Apr 22 2012
Purpose of the Antitrust Law This article is to lay out, in simplest terms, antitrust law as it pertains to the publishing price fixing lawsuit. It is not designed to address the shortcomings of the law or the need for reform but the status of the law. Additionally, my knowledge of the antitrust law is [...]
Apr 21 2012
Dear Ms. Alexander: I read the first in the unfortunately titled H.O.T. Cops series “Bad Girl at Night.” I meant to review it but failed to do so until recently. Party of Three is the second in the series. I had read a few of your Ellora’s Cave publications previously but found them to be [...]
Apr 21 2012
Surprise, surprise, Nalini Singh was in our hotel room, so we tied her to a chair and Sarah Wendell interviewed her. She’s live, not on Skype, and it’s a really fun and casual conversation because we didn’t plan to do this. We had the microphone and a half hour to chat. We did attempt to [...]
Apr 21 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. You can submit your own First Page using this form. “Sarah I really don’t want to be here?” Said Karly. [...]
Apr 18 2012
Dear Ms. Probst: Your publisher kindly sent this book for review and given the recent announcement of the great sales success of this book, I was eager to read it. I can only conclude that the success of this book is due to a great hunger for category books by readers who believe that they [...]
Apr 17 2012
Dear Ms. McCoy: This book came highly recommended from Reader Shana. It is a fantasy story set in some land with detailed and intricate world building. What’s even better is that there is a strong romance underpinning to the story. Unfortunately, I am not the right type of reader for this book. I find this [...]
Apr 17 2012
I wanted to know more about the romance community and have asked some of the bloggers to share with us how they got started blogging, what they love about it, what is hard and what 2012 books they are excited about. Today’s bloggers are The BookPushers. Lou: The BookPushers started off as the Book Pushers [...]
Apr 16 2012
I had a great time reading the comments to the Dear Author Is Six post. We have some great new content that we will be producing in part due to the comments including a Dear Author Book Club, more If You Like posts, a collection of post creating a romance canon for each sub genre [...]
Apr 16 2012
Week Ending April 10, 2012 The Price of Innocence by Susan Sizemore * * A | BN | K | S | ARE Scandal Wears Satin by Loretta Chase * * A | BN | K | S Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day * * A | BN | K | [...]
Apr 15 2012
One thing that I’ve heard repeatedly from any publisher is that Amazon is a bad business partner. It doesn’t matter if the publisher is an agency pricing publisher or a low priced digital only publisher. Amazon treats everyone poorly. Amazon needs competition. Amazon has no motivation to keep prices low, innovate their retail site, improve [...]
Apr 14 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. You can submit your own First Page using this form. Friday, December 16, 2011 Some people just wanna die. Elmore [...]
Apr 13 2012
Dear Ms. Callahan: I did receive a copy of your book from a publicist to review but I ended up buying the book from Amazon as I believe it was discounted at one point and I prefer to read digital over paper. I had heard good things about your book and was excited to read [...]
Apr 12 2012
The DOJ filed suit against five publishers (Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster) on April 11, 2012. The DOJ then immediately filed a notice of settlement and a request for approval of the settlement. A judge assigned to this case will then either approve the settlement and order the parties back to the negotiating [...]
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