Sep 1 2011
Barnes & Noble reports that the majority of its ebook sales are agency priced books (which feeds nicely into my Sunday article about how the biggest winner of agency pricing was BN). BN announced its quarterly results two days ago. Total sales are up 2% to $1.4billion, driven by large increases at bn.com as [...]
Sep 1 2011
Dear Ms. Linden: I picked this one up when I realized I hadn’t read many historicals lately. This is the first in a three book series involving the de Lacey brothers who discover that their recently deceased father may have been a bigamist threatening their standing in society and their inheritances. Edward, the second son, [...]
Aug 31 2011
We search on Amazon for these deals and so the the prices may be different at other retailers. *NEW* The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie * 0 * Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo *NEW* Bright Young Things with Bonus Material by Anna Godbersen * 0 * Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo [...]
Aug 31 2011
Like my previous post, this is actually a retrospective list of what I had read the past couple of weeks: Mistress Bride by Michelle Reid – A discussion of Reid’s books prompted me to pull out this favorite of mine. I really like how Reid uses societal constraints to keep the protags apart. She did [...]
Aug 30 2011
We’re back with a new – and longer! – episode. This time around we’re talking about popular series in romance, specifically small town community romances for which I have a particular name. If you’ve ever wondered why it is that we so seldom choose a Save the Contemporary title, you’ll learn in this episode. We’ll [...]
Aug 30 2011
Dear Ms. Dare: You are well known for your cute toy filled book trailers (Stud Club Trilogy / Maya Banks’ Highlander Trilogy) and I was tempted to do a lego review for this book. After all, I have a castle. I bought some canons. I have minifigs where the girl’s boobs look like they are busting out [...]
Aug 28 2011
Amazon is supposedly the leader in ereading technology but from the Kindle devices to the web app to the desktop software, the reading experience is inconsistent and even crude. If not for the one click buy which Amazon had patented in September 1999, Amazon’s apathetic attitude toward the software and user reading experience may have [...]
Aug 27 2011
Dear Ms. Newmar: I had almost forgotten I had read this book until the bull semen news story jogged my memory. I think I was purposely trying to repress it. I understand that this series published by Siren and books like it featuring multiple “heroes” are very popular and are earning you all tons of [...]
Aug 27 2011
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. *** I jolted awake when the ice water hit my face. Blinding pain radiated out from my side when I [...]
Aug 26 2011
First, I want to rant about the horrible scanning errors in this book. One or two wouldn’t really have bothered me and I’m hardly the grammar police, but I counted over one-hundred of them (number 1 for letters I and l, regular dashes where there should be emdashes, random words that are italicized or underlined, [...]
Aug 25 2011
A federal judge in Austin has ruled that the Texas anti littering slogan does not apply to Christie Craig’s Don’t Mess With Texas. The decision (which I have not read) reportedly cites First Amendment issues and costs in denying the preliminary injunction request. Rogers v. Grimaldi, 875 F.2d 994, 999 (2nd Cir. 1989) set forth [...]
Aug 25 2011
Dear Ms. Garwood: This review of Lion’s Lady posted at Smart Bitches is fomenting a desire to reread your backlist (I liked Guardian Angel a bit more than Lion’s Lady). However your latest release is a contemporary. The Ideal Man is a solid entry into the Garwood bibliography but I still long for the magic [...]
Aug 24 2011
Ewan Morrison writes a long essay published in the Guardian about how advances are declining and may be discontinued (true for the former, unlikely for the latter) and because of the demise of print, publishing is doomed. He ends the essay with a call to action for everyone to think and take actions against this [...]
Aug 23 2011
Booklamp.org is up and running. Booklamp professes to be a Pandora for books. It does not have much content for romances. It looks to be publisher specific. Random House and Simon & Schuster have books and authors present but Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette do not. Harlequin also seems absent. Searching Nora Roberts pulls up [...]
Aug 23 2011
In romance, the main characters are referred to as Hero and Heroine. The terms are formed from the base word, hero. The term “hero” in modern vernacular refers to someone who is “of distinguished courage or ability, admired for brave deeds and noble qualities.” In the romance genre, there are often good guys and bad [...]
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