Apr 25 2012
A few weeks ago, I stumbled onto Fiverr, a place where you can buy reviews at Amazon and twitter followers and a whole host of things. An author offered to test if out for me and sent me an account to post on Dear Author. Here it is: “For $5, I’ll leave a five-star review [...]
Apr 25 2012
I’ve had some concerns by readers who are primarily print readers that the coverage at Dear Author has been too focused on ebooks. When I asked the readers what they were interested in seeing, they responded that they would like to know more about print debut authors. We developed a little questionnaire and every Wednesday [...]
Apr 24 2012
Jim C. Hines – Posing Like a Man – Jim Hines recreates a series of mantitty covers and comes to some interesting conclusions about the objectification of men on covers (it’s almost always positive). Karen Knows Best – “It hasn’t passed my attention that within romance, enhanced breasts are usually hung on the ‘bitchy [...]
Apr 24 2012
When I started reading erotic romance back in the early to mid-2000s, erotic romance meant “bedroom door wide open”, the author would use graphic terminology that most mainstream romances wouldn’t. The act of love making between the hero and heroine was captured in all its glory, so to speak, instead of closing the door [...]
Apr 23 2012
No deals today. Hasn’t your wallet suffered enough damage from the Johanna Lindsey backlist bonanza? No, okay. Samhain is offering 30% off. You can pick up Love is a Battlefield by Tamara Morgan or Once Upon a Dream by Jennifer Archer. The first story is a sad one. Update x 2: Kristi, the Story Siren, [...]
Apr 22 2012
DA/SBTB Bestseller List, Week Ending April 18, 2012 Master of Crows by Grace Draven A | BN | K | S The Only Gold by Tamara Allen A | BN | K | S A Week to Be Wicked (Spindle Cove) by Tessa Dare A | BN | K | S I Kissed an Earl: [...]
Apr 21 2012
Surprise, surprise, Nalini Singh was in our hotel room, so we tied her to a chair and Sarah Wendell interviewed her. She’s live, not on Skype, and it’s a really fun and casual conversation because we didn’t plan to do this. We had the microphone and a half hour to chat. We did attempt to [...]
Apr 21 2012
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. “Sarah I really don’t want to be here?” Said Karly. [...]
Apr 20 2012
Charade (1963) Genre: Romantic Suspense Grade: B+ Witty, sophisticated, and elegant – this falls under the category of “they don’t make them like this anymore.” The pairing of Hepburn and Grant isn’t my favorite – he does look a little long in the tooth for her – but … damn, he’s Cary Grant and he [...]
Apr 19 2012
Publishing Industry Is Angry That Pulitzers Snubbed Fiction – NYTimes.com – Traditional publishing is really unhappy that there was no Pulitzer Prize award for fiction. The primary reason is that the prize gives the fiction market a nice financial bump but I don’t think that a Pulitizer should be awarded either to give a boost [...]
Apr 18 2012
Kobo reveals big plans | The Bookseller – Kobo is doing very well overseas, outselling Amazon two to one in France. Now that it has been bought out by Rakuten, its pockets are deep. I would love it if Kobo would use some of that money to provide decent customer service. The Bookseller “Kobo previously [...]
Apr 18 2012
I’ve had some concerns by readers who are primarily print readers that the coverage at Dear Author has been too focused on ebooks. When I asked the readers what they were interested in seeing, they responded that they would like to know more about print debut authors. We developed a little questionnaire and every Wednesday [...]
Apr 17 2012
Yesterday, I referred to City Mom blogger, Kim Strickland, at Chicago Now as a “self published author”. According to Ms. Strickland, that is libelous as she is not a self published author as her work was acquired by traditional publishers. I’m not sure how calling her “self published” is libelous. I asked for clarification but [...]
Apr 17 2012
I wanted to know more about the romance community and have asked some of the bloggers to share with us how they got started blogging, what they love about it, what is hard and what 2012 books they are excited about. Today’s bloggers are The BookPushers. Lou: The BookPushers started off as the Book Pushers [...]
Apr 16 2012
Experts Consider How Apple E-Book Suit Will Impact Business, Regulation – I’m fairly irritated with the coverage of the DOJ lawsuit over prices. Let me clarify a few things. First, there is no law against pursuing or acquiring a monopoly. Second, there is no prohibition against a manufacturer or a publisher from setting prices and [...]
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