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Daily Deals: Thrillers, Westerns, and Math Geeks

Daily Deals: Thrillers, Westerns, and Math Geeks

Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: Cate Fante is strong and sexy and wears designer suits like overpriced armor. She’s just become a judge but leads a dark double life that she hides from everyone. Her cover is blown when a high-profile case in her courtroom takes a stunning turn.(…)

Monday News: Amazon App adds accessibility features; Nook adds Google Play; Graphic Novels at libraries increasing

Revenge porn victim speaks about years of torment after ex-boyfriend put X-rated photos of her online – The article isn’t so much the story for me. Instead it was the comments that blamed the victim for her ex boyfriend’s callous vindictiveness. Holly dated a man, sent him provocative pictures. When he broke up with her,(…)

Daily Deals:  Deals for the middle grade, young adult, and adults

Daily Deals: Deals for the middle grade, young adult, and adults

Wind Dancer by Jamie Carie. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: Raised in a British-held frontier town during the American Revolution, Isabelle Renoir is not like other women around her. A free spirit, she dances in the moonlight as a praise offering to God and is more at home fearlessly taking her long rifle and(…)

Being Nimble

Being Nimble

When I was at Romantic Times convention, I heard the news that The Tools of Change conference, a technology and publishing conference, was being shut down.  Begun in 2007, the conference was aimed at bringing technology and publishing together.  The announcement indicates that the sponsor, O’Reilly, will move on to offering other things.   The publishing(…)

First Page: A New Sky : Page 1

First Page: A New Sky : Page 1

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. You can submit your own First Page using this form. The academic and the free spirit! A near-genius, sheltered astrophysicist(…)

Daily Deals:  Fast drivers and padawans

Daily Deals: Fast drivers and padawans

Dangerous Race by Dee J. Adams. $ FREE From the Jacket Copy: Four years ago, race car driver Tracey Bradshaw almost died in a horrific crash. Now scarred inside and out, she’s making a comeback, but her team is plagued by a series of “accidents”. When the team leader dies under mysterious circumstances, former driver(…)

First Page: The Sweet Science

First Page: The Sweet Science

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. You can submit your own First Page using this form. Lillian stared at her waist-length mass of hair in the(…)

Daily Deals: A middle grade historical, a low priced pre order, a video game tie in and an enhanced ebook

Daily Deals: A middle grade historical, a low priced pre order, a video game tie in and an enhanced ebook

Infinity Blade by Brandon Sanderson. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Trained from birth in swordplay and combat, a young knight named Siris has journeyed to the Dark Citadel with a single purpose: fight through the army of Titans to face the tyrannical God King in one-on-one combat.This was his father’s sacred mission, and his(…)

Friday News: B&N and S&S standoff doesn’t appear to be hurting S&S; AAR Lynn Spencer notices a decline in historicals; Cover Cafe Annual Contest is now on!  Go Vote!

Friday News: B&N and S&S standoff doesn’t appear to be hurting S&S; AAR Lynn Spencer notices a decline in historicals; Cover Cafe Annual Contest is now on! Go Vote!

Simon & Schuster Overcomes BN Issues with Rising Profits and Small Sales Drop | Publishers Lunch – B&N is still refusing to stock S&S books in large quantities but S&S’s position, according to PublishersMarketplace, hasn’t hurt them much. Ebooks accounted for 30% of post holiday sales in quarter one but the growth isn’t in adult(…)

Daily Deals: Historical, Science Fiction, and a set of contemporary romances

Daily Deals: Historical, Science Fiction, and a set of contemporary romances

The Buffet’s “Bouquet of Books” sale will be open May 1-3. More than 175 ebooks, all reduced in price to just 99 cents. Save in categories such as Young Adult, Contemporary, Paranormal, Suspense, Erotic Romance, and more!  PLUS, visit the website to win gift cards to your choice of online retailers. $400 in gift cards(…)

Thursday News: Author Solutions subject to class action; HarperCollins launches a digital first imprint for mysteries

HarperCollins to launch digital-first mystery imprint, with monthly royalty payments – The idea of no advance in a traditional publishing world is really groundbreaking outside of romance. Yet HarperCollins is going to do this for mystery books. “HarperCollins’ William Morrow division will launch Witness, a digital-first imprint for mysteries and thrillers, this October, the company(…)

Daily Deals: Modern classic and a popular m/m for free

Daily Deals: Modern classic and a popular m/m for free

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: Adapted for a magnificent George Roy Hill film three years later (perhaps the only film adaptation of a masterpiece which exceeds its source), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) is the now famous parable of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and POW, who has in the later(…)

Wednesday News: On-demand marketing; Tennessee most romance reader oriented; and discrimination toward female authors, again

The coming era of ‘on-demand’ marketing – Don Linn tweeted this link out. The article describes the movement toward on demand access by consumers to all things and how marketing has to evolve to meet that. For businesses that rely on brick and mortar stores, this line may be chilling: An executive of one major(…)

Daily Deals: Behaviorial science, gypsies, and reunited lovers

Daily Deals: Behaviorial science, gypsies, and reunited lovers

Rebellious Desire is on sale for $.99 at Amazon today. It wasn’t my favorite Garwood but it’s 99c. The Second Seduction of a Lady by Miranda Neville. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Enter the thrilling, sexy world of GeorgianEngland in this splendid Miranda Neville novella—and catch a glimpse of Caro, the heroine ofThe Importance(…)

Tuesday News:

Tuesday News:

Macmillan Finalizes E-book Settlement, Will Pay $26 Million – Macmillan has agreed to pay $20 million toward the refund pool along with attorneys’ fees and $1000 to the named plaintiffs as a “service award”. The settlement will be up for approval after a period of public comment. Publishers Weekly Why Still So Few Use Condoms(…)