For miscellaneous stuff that goes on at Dear Author.
Apr 12 2012
I recently shared with Dear Author my favorite historical romances. Today I’m pulling out my favorite romantic suspense novels. These are kept in my Kindle collection: bad guys, good sex, true love. I’ve not read as much romantic suspense as I have historical romance so my bad guys, good sex, true love collection currently only has(…)
Apr 8 2012
We actually turned six on April 3. Jayne and I started the blog on April 3, 2006, and we had a few friends who came and read the blog. Now we have a few more friends. Seriously we have the best community of readers here at Dear Author and we want to celebrate our readership(…)
Apr 1 2012
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. I thought we would test out an open thread here at Dear Author. On the first Sunday of every month, there will be an(…)
Apr 1 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. Also, here is the coming soon catalog for April.(…)
Apr 1 2012
The April Fool’s jokes started early last night. Google always participates and this year pulls out a fantastic 8 BIT NES Google Maps. The following video shows you how to use the cartridge. Blowing on the teeth of the cartridge is an important part of the installation process. Sarah Wendell went old school at the(…)
Mar 22 2012
Since last I wrote, I read and reviewed Patricia Gaffney’s Crooked Hearts. Here’s what else I’ve been reading: The Great Famine: Ireland’s Agony 1845-1852 by Ciarán Ó Murchadha: Because apparently one book about innocent people starving to death just wasn’t enough for me. Actually, it wasn’t until I started this book that I realized I had(…)
Mar 19 2012
First up we have the winners of the Molly O’Keefe ARC and the Caitlin Crews novel. We are giving these away in conjunction with a beautiful post by the two authors on Shame and the Romance Heroine. Winners have been emailed and requested to please fill out the form at the bottom. Next, we(…)
Mar 12 2012
Update: We have two slots left in April, June, July and December. All other months are sold out. We are now sold out. As announced on Friday, we will be opening a new ad slot beginning in April. The Ad space will be 200 x 200 (the size of the image above) and will cost(…)
Mar 12 2012
Here is our list of March Advertisers. I hope you check them out. Thank you! Carina Press highlights its Fantasy books Samhain asks you to take notice of Vivian Arend’s series. If You Were Here by Jen Lancaster All Romance eBooks is having a rebate sale on Harlequin books. Ride with Me by Ruthie Knox(…)
Mar 5 2012
January was kind of a bust for me, but I caught up in February. I’ve been trying to read further afield, going past the usual m/m and category and trying more historical romance. They didn’t all work perfectly, but I’ve no regrets in this batch. Twice Fallen: Ladies in Waiting by Emma Wildes. I discovered(…)
Mar 2 2012
In the past five years, I’ve read over 1500 romances. Some I loathed, some I loved and many I thought were-eh–better than the last three Star Wars movies. I’m fairly narrow in my general genre reading. Out of the 1500 books I’ve read, at least a thousand have been historical romance. I’ve read next, in(…)
Mar 2 2012
I’m implementing a new commenting policy at Dear Author. While we have always welcomed (and sometimes tolerated) anonymous commenters, there is an increasing tendency of a few people (mostly newbies) to engage in bad commenting behavior. Thus, in the future, if a commenter engages in sock puppeting as defined below, I will note that in(…)
Mar 1 2012
It looks like my reading’s slowed down a bit compared to last year but I’m determined to keep putting these together on a monthly basis. Last month I discovered I hadn’t read any books not for reviewing purposes, which is rather sad, so I aimed to fix that this month. Blackout by Rob Thurman This(…)
Feb 27 2012
Each month, we have a new slate of advertisements and the advertisements help to fund things like giveaways to the troops, to blog readers, and to the maintenance of the blog. I know that some of you enjoy the ads enough to email me and wonder where they could be found on the mobile version.(…)
Feb 26 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
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