Sep 29 2009
Maili is guesting over at Victoria Janssen’s blog home about her favorite category books. Sadly so many of them are out of print. I’ve read all but one of the stories recommended by Maili and they are worth hunting down and not just because Jane is the heroine in one of the books. Really. You [...]
Sep 29 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Last week, I posted an “If You Like” query looking for good werewolf romances. I commented that the Urban Fantasy genre is replete with werewolves but that the werewolf is much rarer in mass market romances. Indeed, in the comments, many a reader referenced popular urban fantasy series like [...]
Sep 26 2009
In today’s First Page, Laura Kinsale brought up a question in the comments regarding unfamiliar terms in a story. I have a question, as a writer, about one of the comments. This isn’t a loaded question, or any sort of commentary on this excerpt itself, it’s input for me. DS said I had to look [...]
Sep 22 2009
Lambda Literary Awards have redefined its focus: The Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) seeks to elevate the status of openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people throughout society by rewarding and promoting excellence among LGBT writers who use their work to explore LGBT lives. As such, it should be noted that the Lambda Literary Awards [...]
Sep 15 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Courtney Milan’s first published work will be her novella contribution to the “In the Heart of Christmas” anthology headlined by Mary Balogh. I had the opportunity to read this story and I was struck immediately by the fact that the characters were of the lower class. William is a [...]
Sep 8 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures I was telling a friend of mine about Christine Feehan the other day. I had picked up Dark Slayer to read after a long absence. I realized that if my friend picked up Feehan today that she would think Feehan was derivative. After all Feehan’s books are marked by [...]
Sep 6 2009
Last week, I wrote that publishers had sacrificed the quality of the printed book in order to preserve their margins reducing the shelf worthy quality of hardcover, trade and mass market fiction. Because of the decreased quality of the printed books, it’s no real sacrifice to move to digital books. <—-this is the first of [...]
Sep 2 2009
So Rat has a problem with paid reviews. No, wait, he has a problem with a blogger receiving any kind of renumeration, which for him includes a free book. His argument raises all sorts of issues which I thought I would lay out in a blog post. First, though, let me be up front about [...]
Sep 1 2009
A couple of weeks ago Dear Author received a number of emails congratulating us on being nominated for different categories of the BBAW, the Book Blogger Appreciation Award. (THANK YOU! to those who nominated us). This award was set up by a blogger by the handle, My Friend Amy, last year and burgeoned into a [...]
Sep 1 2009
Heather Massey is a blogger who travels the sea of stars searching for science fiction romance adventures aboard The Galaxy Express. Additionally, she pens a science fiction romance column for LoveLetter, Germany’s premier romance magazine. **** When I think of steampunk, I envision Victorian fashion, airships, and oversized rivets. And lest we forget-’Captain Nemo’s elegant [...]
Aug 30 2009
Those devoted to paper in publishing houses worry that digital publishing will lead to the loss of the art of publication. The sad fact is that the art of publication has been subsumed in mass production long ago. With increased paper costs, distribution costs, lowering margins, publishers have cheapened the physical book to the point [...]
Aug 28 2009
Every Thursday the crew at Follow the Reader host a twitter chat about some publishing topic. Yesterday was about what readers would like publishers to know. (This discussion will be summarized and posted at the Follow the Reader blog in a week or so). One of the tweets was by someone who wanted publishers to [...]
Aug 25 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Janet: Reading through the comments on the Dear Author Golden Era poll, they seem to reflect the split in the voting between the 1990s and the 2000s. Those who chose the 1990s seem more like Historical Romance readers, while a number of those favoring the current decade have pointed [...]
Aug 18 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Dear Romancelandia, There is a sinister power afoot, an evil influence that is threatening to steal our enjoyment and satisfaction, a darkness that dims our reading joy. What is this evil, you may ask? Someone is stealing words from the genre! Although books have been getting shorter for a [...]
Aug 11 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures There are passages in books that are so memorable that you need only say a few descriptive words and the reader knows exactly what book you are talking about. These are scenes that I don’t think could be duplicated by the same author or even other authors without invoking [...]
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