For miscellaneous stuff that goes on at Dear Author.
Oct 29 2012
I know I originally promised to open the ad book in 2013, but I had some delays (obviously). But we are ready to open it up now. We have two ad slots available. Zone 2 and Zone 4. Zone 2 is 200 x 300 (25% SOV) – only May, August, October, November, and December are(…)
Oct 28 2012
Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be released(…)
Oct 28 2012
Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general? Post away. Don’t forget our New Releases site here. Send to(…)
Oct 26 2012
Apparently Google looks like it will stop supporting Feedburner. Feedburner is what we used to deliver our RSS Feed and our daily digests via email. Based on this, we are switching our feed back to the wordpress default and delivering our daily digests via email. If you have already signed up for a daily digest,(…)
Oct 24 2012
Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches Trashy Books has spearheaded an effort to bring a one day conference dedicated to helping bloggers network with other bloggers, learn tools of the trade, and information about the book industry. She has graciously allowed me to be part of it. We’ve put together a number of topics and we(…)
Oct 17 2012
I read the excerpt of this book in the back of Bound to You, a sexy novella featuring a blind lumberjack (sort of) and a famous movie star, and thought it might be one of the hottest scenes I had read in a long time. I was anxious to read the entire story. The rest certainly(…)
Oct 14 2012
Jane had a great post about copyright issues for photographs and other images. As anyone who has visited blogs and review sites has probably noticed, people are much more cavalier about using copyrighted images to illustrate their posts than they are about appropriating text. For whatever reason, authors, reviewers, and readers who are outraged about the(…)
Oct 10 2012
We had three! giveaways last week, if you can believe it. I tried out Rafflecopter, a free service, with the Susanna Kearsley Giveaway and I really love how easy it is so in the future, we’ll be using that service. I mean, look, the widget magically updates with the winner names!! It’s the simple things(…)
Oct 5 2012
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, we have a Princess Bride DVD to Giveaway. Read down to see how to enter. The Princess Bride 25th Anniversary Blu-ray is loaded with special features including the all-new featurette “True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon” which includes brand new interviews with Reiner, Elwes, Wright, Goldman, Christopher Guest (For Your Consideration), Chris Sarandon (Fright Night) and executive producer Norman Lear. Additionally,(…)
Oct 4 2012
“With its dark legends and passionate history, the windswept shores of Scotland are an archaeologist’s dream. Verity Grey is thrilled by the challenge of uncovering an ancient Roman campsite in a small village. But as soon as she arrives, she can sense danger in the air. Her eccentric boss is convinced he’s finally found the(…)
Sep 23 2012
Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be released(…)
Sep 23 2012
Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general? Post away. Send to Kindle
Sep 14 2012
What Remains by Carole Radziwill I have a fondness for the Real Housewives franchise which I would never admit to in public (uh oh, I just did, didn’t I?). Radziwill joined the cast of The Real Housewives of New York this season, and though she can be tiresomely above-it-all on occasion, she’s impressed me with(…)
Sep 12 2012
Last month was a busy month for me and therefore I didn’t read as much as I usually do. Here’s what was on my plate in August, reading-wise: Spice and Smoke by Suleikha Snyder Set in the world of Bollywood cinema, Spice and Smoke is comprised of two connected novellas. “Bombay Dreams” is the story(…)
Aug 29 2012
WINNERS: From the RITA Best First Book giveaway, Dee F. wins from the group of contemporaries; Amy Kathryn from the historicals; Janet from the paranormals. Check your inboxes! And congratulations to Darynda Jones, who won for First Grave on the Right. ANNOUNCEMENT: I am re-vamping the interview series I do here at Dear Author. For future(…)
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