Apr 24 2013
Dear DA friends: Many moons ago, Dear Author posted a debut author interview for Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles. That didn’t intrigue me as much as Booksmuggler’s adoration for the book (word of mouth and hand-selling, right?). That got me intrigued enough to use one of my monthly Audible credits to buy the audiobook. So(…)
Apr 24 2013
Dear Ms. McQuein, Like many other readers of YA novels, I’ve grown somewhat weary of the paranormal and urban fantasy titles in the genre. I want a change and have been trying to find more thrillers and science fiction titles to inject some enthusiasm in my reading blues. That your debut combined these two things(…)
Apr 23 2013
Dear Ms. Garnier: I’ve been a fan of yours since “Satin Sash” for your ability to write emotionally charged love scenes and I’ve read everything you’ve written, although most of it has been shorter works including this one. I still think you write great sex scenes but the actual falling in love and character arcs(…)
Apr 23 2013
This good girl’s going bad…. Merry Kade has always been the good girl. The best friend. The one who patiently waits for the guy to notice her. Well, no more. Merry has just scored her dream job, and it’s time for her life to change. As the new curator of a museum in Wyoming, she’ll(…)
Apr 22 2013
Dear Ms. LaBrecque: On the first page days, people always complain about books not starting in the right place and I felt that way about this book. Chapter one could have been told to us in two sentence. “Delphi Reynolds lost the best job she had ever had when her piece of shit boss came(…)
Apr 22 2013
Blurb: Albert Sterne, forensics expert with the FBI, is so obnoxious on the surface that no-one bothers digging deeper. When he’s sent to Colorado to investigate what turns out to be the work of a serial killer he encounters Special Agent Fletcher Ash and they end up reluctantly joining forces to unravel the case. It’s(…)
Apr 21 2013
Dear Ms. Dee: Thank you for sending “New Life” for review at Dear Author. I was immediately fascinated by the storyline of a young man, Jason Reitmiller, whose promising future was cut short when he suffered brain damage in a motor vehicle collision. Jason now works as a night janitor in the building where the(…)
Apr 20 2013
Dear Ms. Phillips: Your novels, when they work well, are like excellent banana pudding. I idolize banana pudding. It’s the ideal comfort/pleasure food. Good banana pudding is softly hued, has just enough variety in its makeup to keep it from being boring, is sweet without being cloying, and, after I’ve inhaled it, I’m unchanged but(…)
Apr 19 2013
Dearest wonderful people, Look, I have something I need to tell you. I know I said I liked dragons. And I do like dragons. I like them a lot. But I don’t like them, y’know, sexually. In fact, it’s a bit outside my comfort zone. Love ‘n’ hugs, AJH NB: This review from AJH is(…)
Apr 19 2013
A stitch in time saves nine …or does it? Sarah Yates is a thirty-something history teacher, divorced, disillusioned and desperate to have more excitement in her life. Making all her dreams come true seems about as likely as climbing Everest in stilettos. Then one evening the doorbell rings and the handsome and mysterious John Needler(…)
Apr 18 2013
Dear Ms. Camden: One of my favorite romances is The Nekkid Truth, a novella in the anthology “Big Guns Out of Uniform.” For the longest time, that novella was the only published thing to your name and I’ve recommended it frequently. I’ve even told people that the novella was worth the entire price of the(…)
Apr 18 2013
I was curious how the authors of this anthology came up with the idea for it so I queried Ruthie Knox. Here’s her answer: Strangers on a Train started on Twitter, of all places. I ran across a Tumblr called “Hot Guys on the Train,” which consists entirely of Instagram-style cell phone pictures taken (presumably)(…)
Apr 17 2013
Dear Ms. Parr: I get the sense from the various internet reviews that people either love this book or hate it. I fall into the latter category. It’s not that I didn’t hate it so much as I wasn’t convinced at the end of the story that the two protagonists actually belonged together. It’s sold(…)
Apr 17 2013
The foundation of superstition is ignorance. First Officer Paul Cronin has no use for magical thinking—he’s a logical guy, a skeptic who only believes what he can see. When a new assignment on Flight 511 takes him directly through the legendary Bermuda Triangle, he’s not concerned about losing his aircraft to supernatural forces. He’s busy(…)
Apr 16 2013
Dear Ms. Rai: This was a 33,000 word novella featuring two high school + college lovers who separated and then reignited their romance. Tatiana Belikov always tried to meet the expectations of her adopted parents except when it came to one thing, her boyfriend. Wyatt Caine was a bad boy with poor prospects who worked(…)
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