Apr 16 2013
Massachusetts and Rhode Island Blood Donations | American Red Cross – You have probably already heard but more than one explosion occurred in Boston yesterday, two near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, resulting in numerous injuries and casualties. One thing that people can do in circumstances like these is to donate blood. This(…)
Apr 16 2013
Avon’s publication of Anna Campbell’s Claiming the Courtesan in 2007 sparked quite a conflagration online. Campbell’s unapologetic use of captivity and sexual force generated a great deal of discussion and controversy, some of which is captured nicely in Sarah Wendell’s review and its attendant comments. Many readers characterized the book like Mala Bhattacharjee does, as(…)
Apr 15 2013
The Giant, O’Brien by Hilary Mantel. $ $3.99 / $3.79 From the Jacket Copy: The year is 1782; the place, London: the center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and magnet to the desperately poor. Among the latter is the Giant, O’Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story(…)
Apr 15 2013
Self-Publishing Grabs Huge Market Share From Traditional Publishers – David Gaughran speculates that based on the numbers provided by Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble, that 25% of e-books purchased in the US are produced by self published authors. What we don’t know at this point is the unit sales versus dollar amounts. The average(…)
Apr 14 2013
The Dirt-Cheap Green Thumb by Rhonda Massingham Hart. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: Now gardeners don’t have to choose between frugal and fantastic! In The Dirt-Cheap Green Thumb, Rhonda Massingham Hart provides practical, time-tested solutions that will stretch your dollar farther than you ever thought possible, even as they yield beautiful, bountiful plants. From(…)
Apr 14 2013
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. Blurb: Averat Garlantine, raised in staid comfort as the youngest(…)
Apr 13 2013
Son of the Morning by Linda Howard. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: A scholar specializing in ancient manuscripts, Grace St. John never imagined that a cache of fragile, old documents she discovered was the missing link to a lost Celtic treasure. But as soon as she deciphers the intriguing legend of the Knights of(…)
Apr 13 2013
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. “How long has Clarissa worked for you?” the woman on(…)
Apr 12 2013
The Brothers Wroth by Kresley Cole. $ $7.59 at Amazon From the Jacket Copy: An exclusive Kresley Cole eBook box set featuring her New York Times bestselling Immortals After Dark titles! Includes Warlord Wants Forever, No Rest for the Wicked, Dark Needs at Night’s Edge, and Untouchable. Angel’s Ink: The Asylum Tales by Jocelynn Drake.(…)
Apr 12 2013
Waterstones founder to launch Spotify-like service for books in 2013 – Waterstones is launching a digital service that SlashGear calls Spotify-like but instead seems like a modern day version of the lending library, only the content will be limited to short stories and serialized content. The program will be called “Read Petite” and the “service(…)
Apr 11 2013
Crash Landing by Lori Wilde. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: Stranded! Billionaire Gibb Martin loves risk almost as much as he loves a well-made suit. But when his business partner and longtime friend suddenly bails on a major venture to get married…well, that’s one risk Gibb isn’t willing to take. Now he just needs(…)
Apr 11 2013
Delete This When You’re Done: Snapchat and the Power of Deletion – This New Yorker article by Matt Buchanan on the future of privacy is thought provoking. With things like Google Glasses and Memoto that take videos and photos constantly of all your interactions (without the express permission of those whom you are recording), privacy(…)
Apr 10 2013
Denim and Lace by Patricia Rice. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: RITA FINALIST by bestselling author of the Magic series Samantha Neely thought she might have to kill Sloan Talbott. Talbott had already tried to run her and her family out of town, and now she finally had her chance to confront the man(…)
Apr 10 2013
Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock popularized the term “MacGuffin,” using it as shorthand for whatever object put the characters (and the story) in motion. For Hitchcock, the MacGuffin mattered mainly because the characters cared about it enough to go after it–whether the audience precisely understood it was a secondary concern. Today’s novels all feature a story centered(…)
Apr 10 2013
NAA’s New Revenue Report: Been Down So Long Looks Like Up to Publishers – This report on news consumption is pretty interesting although not exactly fiction book publishing related. Pay walls are becoming increasingly more popular because they are profitable. “Revenue from digital/print circulation rose nearly five fold (499%) from 2011.” But only 11% of(…)
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