Oct 16 2011
This morning we have a melange of information that deserved their own posts because two of them will likely be updated later. Thus we are having a summary post: Changes to Amazon’s Personal Document Service. It now comes with cloud and whispersync support. With iOS5, Stanza has been killed. This post explores three alternatives to [...]
Oct 15 2011
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. *** Mists of time, morning mists; both dim that long ago memory of a dawn when I was both [...]
Oct 14 2011
A lot of my time the past week or so has been taken up with washing machine repairs and acclimating my new kittens to their new home. Guess which has been more fun. But I have gotten a little reading and movie watching squeezed in now and then. Flawless by Carrie Lofty – A book [...]
Oct 14 2011
Outsourced (2006) Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance Grade:B- Outsourced is a movie I’d had in my Netflix rental queue for quite a while but Bonnie Dee’s email to me suggesting it as a review movie got me to move it up the head of the line. Though a 2006 release, the subject matter – someone who’s job is [...]
Oct 13 2011
Amazon launched its science fiction, fantasy and horror line called 47North. It’s lined up some big names in scifi with the launched of 15 books “including ‘The Mongoliad: Book One,’ the first in the ambitious, five-book, collaborative Foreworld series led by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. All of these books will be available to English [...]
Oct 11 2011
I’ve been futzing with this article for a couple of months and it’s not working out. I told myself to finish it and publish it and it accidentally went up last week. I guess that is a sign. I think the problem that I have with the subject is that I don’t have any real [...]
Oct 10 2011
USA Today launched a blog devoted to romances. Huzzah! Author Joyce Lamb, a copy editor for the paper and author of romantic suspenses published by Berkley, heads up the blog. Mandi S is one of the reviewers. Her blog is here. Other readers and authors will be contributing. It’s great to see positive coverage of [...]
Oct 9 2011
Week ending October 4, 2011 Lord and Lady Spy by Shana Galen Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo I Love the Earl by Caroline Linden Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo Doukakis’s Apprentice by Sarah Morgan Amazon | nook [...]
Oct 8 2011
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. *** Why didn’t the Fomhoire ever just walk up to him and tap him on the shoulder? They would [...]
Oct 7 2011
Dodge City (1939) Genre: Western Grade: B 1939 was apparently the year that the Western came into its own. “Stagecoach,” “Destry Rides Again” and “Dodge City” were all released then and elevated the genre from B grade status to vehicles for the studio stars of the day. “Dodge City” is slightly different in that the [...]
Oct 6 2011
I don’t have any beautiful eulogy to give Jobs and it’s not that I don’t believe that he deserves a beautiful eulogy. He does. He transformed our collective lives. But I have neither the connection nor the knowledge from which to give voice to a remembrance. I’ve read several and these are few I thought [...]
Oct 4 2011
In celebration of National Reading Group Month, Book Club Girl has combed through Harper Collins extensive list of trade publications to hand-select 12 great e-books for book clubs for just $2.99 each (price is good for the entire month of October). So consumers can fill their e-readers with a year’s worth of great book club [...]
Oct 4 2011
During the Mistorical discussion, some asked why we didn’t point out errors or miscues in contemporary romances.Lynn S even gave us a good name for it: contemporroneous. To the extent that we know them, I think that we do. I’ve been pretty scathing, in fact, about books featuring sports characters where I didn’t agree with [...]
Oct 3 2011
As you will have heard, author Sandra Hyatt (Hyde) died suddenly a few weeks ago. A trust has now been set up in her memory, it’s aim to support a NZ-based romance writer going to a conference here or overseas. Link: http://www.sandrahyatt.com/sandra-hyde-memorial-trust/. ***** Someone is having trouble separating fact from fiction but I’m not convinced [...]
Oct 3 2011
For this edition of the Dear Bitches, Smart Authors podcast, Jane (me) asks Sarah Really Really Hard Questions about Everything I Know About Love, I Learned from Romance Novels, known affectionately as EIKAL. I tried to ask hard questions about the book. Sarah said she felt cross examined. I hope you enjoy the interview, and [...]
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