For miscellaneous stuff that goes on at Dear Author.
May 27 2012
Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. 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. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be released [...]
May 27 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.
May 22 2012
Updated with the winners: Author: Danielle W Comment: permalink I am so ready for this to be released already! I need to read about the chocoholics :) Author: AnnaPiranha Website: http://www.dyedinthewoolbluestocking.blogspot.com Comment: permalink Oh! Pick me! Of course, if you don’t I’ll just download it anyhow. Author: JL Comment: permalink I would love to win a copy of this! Such a great [...]
May 22 2012
At the beginning of the year, we featured a few posts by publishing “insiders”. Elle Kennedy and her editor, Jesse Feldman, contacted me to see if I would be interested in posting about how Elle’s new Killer Instincts romantic suspense series was acquired. I thought readers would like to follow a book from acquisition to [...]
May 19 2012
My life at Dear Author started in December a couple years back. I had begun reading it and Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. I had discovered a love of romance novels and wanted more and more information about them and their readers – even though, at the time, I had almost no access to said romance [...]
May 16 2012
Update with winners: Author: Sirius Comment: permalink I actually love well done time travel a lot, would love to win this one :) Author: Ruth (CO) Comment: permalink I am not a fan of time travel so interested in finding out what made this one different. Author: azteclady Website: http://www.HerHandsMyHands.etsy.com Comment: permalink Considering how miserable [...]
May 15 2012
I started writing for Dear Author because I wanted to share my absolute fangirl love for Anah Crow’s brilliant SM romance, Uneven. Jane kindly published a Guest Review and then generously invited me to join the DA reviewers. I’ve been reviewing for DA ever since (3 years and 8 months). Reading for and writing the [...]
May 11 2012
Wow, has it been a long time since I last put one of these lists together! And I think I promised to be better about it in my previous post too. Obviously I need to learn not to jinx myself. The Scholomance by R. Lee Smith. Since lots of people were talking about Smith, I [...]
May 10 2012
The Starving Years by Jordan Castillo Price This is a dystopian story set in the near past (1960) in New York. A new type of genetically engineered food, Manna, has ended starvation by providing basic nutrition to people all over the world. But something has gone wrong, leading to riots in Manhattan and implicating the [...]
May 10 2012
On Sunday, April 22, I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Part 1 of my report on the festival Part 2 of my festival recap And now for Part 3: Fiction: Love, Actually My friend Bettie and I left the Anne Rice panel while Anne Rice was taking questions from the audience and [...]
May 9 2012
I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday, April 22. The first part of my report on the festival can be found at this link. And now onto Part 2. Anne Rice in Conversation with Scott Timberg After the mornings panels described in part 1 of my report, we stopped at the [...]
May 8 2012
Last year on I attended the Los Angeles Festival of Books and reported on the event for DA. My biggest negative takeaway that year was that the romance genre was not represented at the festival. This year (Halleluja!) they actually had a panel devoted to romance. A single, lonely panel mind you, but it [...]
Apr 30 2012
My goodness, it’s been a long time since I wrote my last “what I’ve been reading/watching” post. I know I’ve been bad, bad, bad about this. So with no more excuses, here goes. Reading Lessons in Laughing Out Loud by Rowan Coleman I’m not sure what the author was aiming for here. I started this [...]
Apr 29 2012
Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. 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. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be released [...]
Apr 29 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.
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