Sep 6 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Virginia Kantra writes paranormal romances for Berkley. Her book, Immortal Sea, is out in stores beginning on September 7, 2010. *** Our three children sprawl around the kitchen table doing-’or [...]
Sep 2 2010
M.K. Hobson calls it "bustlepunk": a nineteenth century America in which military warlocks serve in President Grant's Secret Service, zombies labor in gold mines, and spells can be mail-ordered from the magical equivalent of Sears & Roebuck. That mass-produced magic is about to put hometown witch Emily Edwards out of business, however, and a lavender-laced [...]
Aug 30 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Gail Carriger is the author of the Parasol Protectorate series. You can friend or follow Gail on Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, or Blogspot. Or join The Parasol Protectorate Facebook Group and take [...]
Aug 23 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. As the following first sale story from Anne Marsh displays, from bitter disappointment can come great things. Anne’s current publisher is Dorchester and obviously Dorchester authors are in quite of a [...]
Aug 2 2010
Let's suppose I'm an innocent lamb that somehow ends up at your signing table in a bookshop. After winning me over with a dorky smile, how would you summarise Here There Be the Monsters (a novella from romance anthology Burning Up) and The Iron Duke? You know that times are tough for writers when a [...]
Jul 29 2010
Yesterday the authors nominated in RWA's Best First Book category discussed their debut books; today the interviews conclude with a look into their lives as writers. For example, a lot of "first" books – aren't, exactly. Read on, and leave a comment for a chance to win. How you reacted to or celebrated your Rita [...]
Jul 26 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Author Darci Hannah is here to share about the pain and perseverance involved in making that first sale. **** Breaking into the publishing industry is difficult. Nobody has learned that [...]
Jul 12 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. When not sitting at the computer writing, award winning author Dee Davis spends her time exploring Manhattan with her husband, daughter, and Cardigan Welsh Corgi. You can visit Dee at [...]
Jul 7 2010
Alyson: After reading Jayne's review of A Ruined Season, I was interested in other romances published by the same company (Hale Publishing). Beverley's second book provided the opportunity. The initial premise of this historical, a woman who must fight for custody of her child after being declared "unfit," seemed to have contemporary overtones, but at [...]
Jun 30 2010
When I started my post yesterday, I had pretensions of including the views of m/m historical romance authors as well, and so I interviewed Alex Beecroft, Charlie Cochrane, Josh Lanyon, Erastes, Lee Rowan, and Kate Rothwell and Bonnie Dee (Kate writing as Summer Devon, and Bonnie write m/m historicals that I have very much enjoyed). [...]
Jun 28 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. See in last week’s opinion piece about difficult protagonists by Barry Eisler, I wasn’t able to post a picture of the aforementioned hated hair, but today I can. Barry’s latest [...]
Jun 21 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Today’s entry is from Nancy Thayer (http://www.nancythayer.com/). She’s not a romance writer, per se, but her book, Beachcombers, is about love, friendship and belonging. **** I grew up in Kansas, [...]
Jun 14 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Last week we featured a few of the debut Carina Press authors and this week, we’ll feature a few more (they all were supposed to go in the same post [...]
Jun 7 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Today we have a special compilation of the Carina Press debut authors. These are a group of authors who sold for the very first time to Carina Press, the brand [...]
May 31 2010
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Days of Grace is Catherine Hall's debut novel: “an emotional coming-of-age story woven with a rich historical World War II tapestry and Hall's own blend of sepia-tinged nostalgia.” Sounds like [...]
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