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Beyond the Book Post and Giveway: MIDNIGHT RESCUE: The Editorial Process

Beyond the Book Post and Giveway: MIDNIGHT RESCUE: The Editorial Process

At the beginning of the year, we featured a few posts by publishing “insiders”.  Elle Kennedy and her editor, Jesse Feldman, contacted me to see if I would be interested in posting about how Elle’s new Killer Instincts romantic suspense series was acquired.  I thought readers would like to follow a book from acquisition to(…)

Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James Primer (and Books Like 50 Shades)

Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James Primer (and Books Like 50 Shades)

Introduction Fifty Shades of Grey is a self published work by a British author using the pseudonym, E. L. James.  It was originally published along with the two sequels, Fifty Shades of Darker and Fifty Shades of Freed, in its entirety, as Master of the Universe on ff.net, a site that hosts what is known(…)

Behind the Book: Why Write with a Friend?

Behind the Book: Why Write with a Friend?

Celeste Bradley and Susan Donovan locked themselves in a hotel room to write  Courtesan’s Guide to Getting Your Man on sale May 24, 2011.   They wrote this post to tell you why. **** Writing is a lonely job. You spend your days inside your own head. Your workplace is a room in your house, or(…)

Beyond the Book:  Thea Harrison and Where She Gets Her Ideas

Beyond the Book: Thea Harrison and Where She Gets Her Ideas

The following is a guest blog post by new author Thea Harrison. She’s actually not new. She wrote Harlequin Presents books over ten years ago and then took a break from publishing. I’m pretty excited about this new series. You can find out more about Ms. Harrison at her blog, http://www.theaharrison.com/, and Dragon Bound will(…)

Beyond the Book:  Tessa Woodward on the acquisition and publication of Lecia Cornwall’s Secrets of a Proper Countess

Beyond the Book: Tessa Woodward on the acquisition and publication of Lecia Cornwall’s Secrets of a Proper Countess

Dear Dear Author Readers, Normally, I’d tell you to pay no attention to the (wo)man behind the curtain, but today I’m letting you in, lifting the veil, spilling all of my secrets — my editorial ones, that is. I’m going to take you through the editorial process from soup to nuts or, in this case,(…)

Beyond the Book: Maya Banks on why she wrote a romantic suspense series

Beyond the Book: Maya Banks on why she wrote a romantic suspense series

I asked Maya Banks if she would write a post about why, after years of success writing erotic romance, she decided to write romantic suspense. The Kelly brother series is about a military family who run a paramilitary search and rescue organization. Her third book in this series, Hidden Away, was released this month. ~~~~~~(…)

Beyond the Book: Friends to Lovers Trope by Taryn Kincaid

Beyond the Book: Friends to Lovers Trope by Taryn Kincaid

Last week I floated the idea of discontinuing the First Sale feature and while there are fans of the feature, many others chimed in to say that they had First Sale fatigue, like me. Based upon the suggestion of FiaQ, I tossed out the idea to authors to write an “author’s cut” feature about a(…)

Beyond the Book: Friends to Lovers Trope by Margaret Rowe

Beyond the Book: Friends to Lovers Trope by Margaret Rowe

Last week I floated the idea of discontinuing the First Sale feature and while there are fans of the feature, many others chimed in to say that they had First Sale fatigue, like me. Based upon the suggestion of FiaQ, I tossed out the idea to authors to write an “author’s cut” feature about a(…)