Apr 4 2013
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: The Wild Hunt is stirring – and the dragons are finally waking from their long sleep… Cat Barahal was the only survivor of the flood that took her parents. Raised by her extended family, she and her cousin, Bee, are unaware of the dangers(…)
Apr 3 2013
Trouble and Chaos: The First Two Books of the Soulbearer Trilogy by Crista McHugh. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Book 1: A Soul For Trouble Arden Lesstymine (known to everyone as Trouble) likes attention as much as the next girl, but this is getting ridiculous. When an insane stranger is murdered at the inn(…)
Apr 3 2013
Dear Ms. Enoch: The best thing about the romance was how it brought up and addressed the repercussions of an interclass relationship during the Regency period. Often you have dukes and maids or shopkeepers getting married but there is no resulting social approbation. Given how classist society was during that time period, these romances are(…)
Apr 2 2013
Deanna Raybourn by Far In The Wilds. $ Free From the Jacket Copy: New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn takes readers into Africa during the height of British colonialism, to meet a man as wild as the land he loves in this prequel novella…. Kenya, 1918 Ryder White is Canadian by birth but African(…)
Apr 2 2013
I’m interviewing author Julie James at the Lady Jane’s Salon in Naperville IL, in conjunction with her new release “Love Irresistibly” which I did love. I now have a list of piercing and penetrating questions to ask but if you have others, let me know. We would love to have you attend. It is(…)
Apr 2 2013
Dear Ms. Ashley: I admit I had reservations when I heard that the next Ashley book was to be Tabby and Shy’s story. Tabby is the daughter of Tack Allen, the president of the Chaos Motorcycle Club. At the end of Motorcycle Man, Tabby is 19 years old and Parker “Shy” Cage is 24 years old. I(…)
Apr 2 2013
2012 was the year of Kristen Ashley for many romance readers. Whether it was through The Golden Dynasty (recommended to me as Game of Thrones fan fiction) or Knight (the weirdly magnetic but hard to read book featuring the pimp hero) or Motorcycle Man (the one that I use as a gateway drug recommendation to(…)
Apr 1 2013
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Apr 1 2013
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling(…)
Apr 1 2013
I’m a big fan of New Adult books and so I was excited when Berkley sent me True by Erin McCarthy to read ( A | BN | K | S ). It captured the zeitgeist of the New Adult genre with the college age protagonists and their attempts to not only discover their(…)
Apr 1 2013
Dear Ainslie Paton: Yeah! A rock star book featuring a female singer. That was my response upon being sent this ARC from Escape Publishing. I really enjoyed your voice in Grease Monkey Jive and I wasted no time in diving right into this story. The first word I’d use to describe Getting Real is authentic.(…)
Mar 31 2013
Wish You Were Here by Beth K Vogt. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: Kissing the wrong guy days before her scheduled wedding leads Allison to become a runaway bride. But can it also lead to happily ever after? Allison Denman is supposed to get married in five days, but everything is all wrong. The(…)
Mar 31 2013
Some readers are concerned about the growing reach of Amazon into all corners of our book reading world from selling to publishing to acquiring their favorite social media site where they chat with other readers about. I’ve looked at a few alternatives but other than Library Thing, there isn’t a real good replacement for Goodreads. (…)
Mar 31 2013
Welcome to First Page Sunday. 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. The Harvard Business School Application Paul ended his(…)
Mar 31 2013
Every month in 2013, Dear Author is giving away an eReading Device to one of our readers. It is our way of saying thank you for visiting us, for using our affiliate links, for commenting, and generally making DA an awesome place. This month’s device is the the Kindle (retail value $119). You can enter(…)
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