JanetLetters of Opiniondiversity / genre criticism / labels / Romance102 Comments

Last week, in the comments to Kris’s wonderful post about abelist language and the stigmatization of mental health issues, several commenters raised questions about what words can and cannot be used ‘safely,’ and noted the complexity of words that have different meanings and different contexts. A word like “irrational,” for ... more >

November 3, 2014

Daily Deals: Creepy thriller with mutant rabbits, porn stars and rockers

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Help for the Haunted by John Searles. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: It begins with a call one snowy February night. Lying in her bed, young Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have received, since her ... more >

November 3, 2014

Monday News: Digital books and learning, reading strategies, Pew’s online harassment research, and advertising at Dear Author

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / Ebooks / formatting / harassment / interpretation / learning / Literary Criticism / poetry / reading / social media11 Comments

Ebooks suck for learning – Baldur Bjarnason has written a relatively short but pithy post that brought to mind those articles claiming that digital books are making us stupid, blah blah blah. Bjarnason focuses on the way physical books are formatted to cue us in directions that allow us to ... more >

November 2, 2014

Daily Deals: Freebie Christmas, post apoc terror, and English spies

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What Happens At Christmas by Victoria Alexander. $ FREE From the Jacket Copy: You are cordially invited to Christmas at Millworth Manor. . . Camille, Lady Lydingham, requests the pleasure of your company at a festive house party, as she endeavors to coax a marriage proposal from Prince Nikolai Pruzinsky ... more >

November 2, 2014

First Page: L’Enchanteresse [tentative] YA Romance

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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. [hr color=”light-gray” width=”50″ border_width=”5″ ] ... more >

IAM JSONEssays / F ReviewsKindle Fire / Review / Samsung Nook Table / Tech support hell32 Comments

I was going to review some tablets here.  A few weeks ago I ordered one of the Nook Samsung tablets. I was pretty excited about it, actually, because I’ve heard such great things about Samsung devices. My work-provided phone is a Samsung and I like it a lot.  So I ... more >