Poll

Dec 23 2010

Poll: Would you read a book featuring protagonists of non English speaking origin?

Primarily the books published in English are about English speaking characters.   Is there a market for stories about characters who speak another language?   And would it really matter if the story is written in English (i.e. the dialogue is all translated?) [poll id="233"] Send to Kindle

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Are There Storylines You’ll Always Read (or Almost Always?)

Sep 14 2010

Are There Storylines You’ll Always Read (or Almost Always?)

Last week, we ran a poll asking people if there were storylines that people would just not read. A whopping 80% percentage of people said "yes." I received a few private emails by authors despairing over this poll. Fear not authors! For every reader who hates a particular trope, there are people who love them.(…)

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Poll Time: Are there storylines you just won’t read?

Sep 7 2010

Poll Time: Are there storylines you just won’t read?

We have a lovely op ed piece by Janine due for tomorrow so this morning we are going to run a poll instead.   I recently read a blurb for a story that featured the heroine working for a tabloid and   was trying to write a tell all story. It appeared, by the blurb, that she(…)

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Jul 20 2010

The Mother of Modern Paranormal Romance?

[poll id="223"] I was perusing the HarperCollins catalog and came across the entry which noted Christine Feehan’s Dark Prince was going to be re-released in hardcover with 100 additional pages. I don’t know if this is a rewrite or just extra material. I mentioned on Twitter that I thought Christine Feehan was the mother of(…)

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May 14 2010

Poll: Do You Skim/Skip Sex Scenes

[poll=219] There is an issue that was prompted by a review of Charlotte Featherstone’s Sinful written by our newest addition to Dear Author, John.   (He already had the J name). A couple of readers confessed that they are skimming or skipping the sex scenes.   hapaz says I can't speak for every one, but I usually(…)

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Dec 23 2009

Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide & Poll

[poll id="214"] Do you buy books as gifts? There’s something wonderful about sharing one’s love for reading with another, particularly kids.   Here’s my last minute holiday book gift guide.   Share yours! Pre K to 1st grade:   Nora Gaydos “Now I’m Reading” series.   I like the collection of 10 books which help your child build her(…)

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Dec 8 2009

Backlist Title Dilemma

[poll id="213"] I was emailing with a friend of mine over two backlist titles from authors whose recent work we both enjoyed tremendously.   The backlist titles were such poor quality compared to the recent works and I thought that had I read those backlist titles, I would never have wanted to pick up the recent(…)

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Nov 23 2009

Poll: Movies and Books

[poll id="212"] New Moon was released this past weekend and grossed a whopping $140.7 million. Record shattering.   New Moon also debuted at No. 5 on the NYT Bestseller Children’s list and spent 11 consecutive weeks on the list. There is obviously overlap between the readers and movie goers.   So I ask you, will you see(…)

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Nov 19 2009

Will the length of a story affect how much you are willing topay?

[poll id="211"] Robin (aka Janet here) wrote a great piece for Access Romance Readers’ Gab blog about value and creative content. In the commercial world, we are used to thinking of value in the context of price. A "good value" is often defined by some quotient of quality and price, specifically as relatively high quality(…)

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Nov 13 2009

POLL: How long does it take to read a book?

[poll id="210"] I know that this will vary from book to book but generally I finish a book in one day if not in one sitting. I generally start a book after I’ve put the tot to bed and finish it before I go to sleep. If it is a particularly good book, I’ll read(…)

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Nov 5 2009

For whom should the author write?

[poll id="208"] Keishon, avidbookreader.com, linked to a discussion at copyblogger which debated whether the theorem that talented authors write badly when they are trying to express an idea and conversely write well when they are trying to touch an audience. Now, the qualification in the copyblogger post is the term “talented” which can have a(…)

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Nov 1 2009

Con Artist Protagonists

JMC posted last week about having problems with con artist protagonists. I’ve enjoyed the occasional assassin book such as Kelley Armstrong’s Nadia Stafford series or Barry Eisler’s John Rain series. Jenny Crusie seems to love the morally ambiguous protagonist with books like Welcome to Temptation, Faking It, and Agnes and the Hitman. I voted in(…)

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Oct 28 2009

Poll: Reading in the Bathroom

There was a person who mentioned that the idea of a book or a phone or a laptop in the bathroom is pretty disgusting to them. I confess, in a manner of TMI perhaps, that I read in the bathroom. Do you? [poll id="206"] Send to Kindle

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Oct 15 2009

Can the locale of a book affect your interest in reading it?

[poll id="205"] I was emailing with someone yesterday about books set in Minneapolis such as Sunshine by Robin McKinley, War for the Oaks by Emma Bull, contemporaries from Susan Johnson and Connie Brockway; the super fabulous Monkeewrench mystery books by PJ Tracy (they have a new one coming out next year!).    Some authors really(…)

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Oct 12 2009

Are you planning on buying an ebook reader this Christmas

[poll id="204"] Forrester researchers are estimating that close to a million new ebook readers will be purchased for the holidays.   I am planning on buying one   depending on what comes out from Barnes and Noble.   How about you? Send to Kindle

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