For miscellaneous stuff that goes on at Dear Author.
May 22 2011
Welcome to the June 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 [...]
May 14 2011
Each month, we have a new slate of advertisements and the advertisements help to fund things like giveaways to the troops, to blog readers, and to the maintenance of the blog. Without the sponsorship funds, Ned would be looking askanse at me and wondering whether this whole blog thing would be worth it. Click through [...]
May 8 2011
Update: The Kindle is ordered. According to Len, they want the K2 or K3 in wifi so that is what we have purchased. WINNERS of Into the Crossfire by Lisa Marie Rice are: 1) Winnie P 2) Victoria Zumbrum 3) Tracy 4) Amy P. 5) Dana 6) Breanna 7) kzoet 8) Julie 9) StacieDM 10) [...]
May 4 2011
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was held over two days this past weekend, Saturday, April 30th and Sunday, May 1st. Although I was disappointed that the romance genre was not represented at the festival, I made plans to attend some interesting events and panels on Saturday, April 30th, along with my husband, my [...]
Apr 24 2011
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.
Apr 24 2011
Welcome to the May 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 [...]
Apr 18 2011
UPDATE: We’ve decouple the review from the giveaway because this is a book so many want to talk about. The review will be reposted on Monday in a new and separate post. The winners have all been emailed. 1) Andy Swanson 2) Cath 3) Adrianne Robinson 4) Jenny 5) Sera 6) Nicola 7) sequoia 8) [...]
Apr 16 2011
So yesterday I tried to do a couple of things to speed up the site but instead brought the entire node down which is apparently very very bad. But, I think things are resolved now and I appreciate your patience with me. I hope this will decrease the time it takes to load the site [...]
Apr 10 2011
I had promised to blog about the plugins I use at WordPress about six months ago but I had been having some loading time issues and they were directly related to my plugins. Before I list the plugins, let me make a comment about the wordpress community. WordPress is a free piece of blogging software. [...]
Apr 8 2011
I’m not sure what day of the conference it is but I think Thursday is day 2. I came in on Tuesday to attend the RT Bookcamp unconference. I attended two sessions. First a session about social reading with Patrick Brown, the community manager at Goodreads; Callie Miller, blogger and literary fiction reviewers; and Ami [...]
Apr 3 2011
On March 22nd Amazon launched their much speculated about Android Appstore. This presents an interesting addition to the Android ecosphere, an app store that has the potential to outshine the official Android Market provided by Google. All in all Amazon's Appstore isn't really too different from the Android Market. At this point it's basically the [...]
Apr 1 2011
I’ve been watching the digital space ever since I started this blog. We were early advocates of digital publishing because it provided convenience but more importantly an avenue for under recognized authors to seek new audiences. In the past year, digital growth has accelerated at a rapid pace and is set to be at least [...]
Mar 30 2011
Update: This contest will close on Saturday, April 2, at 9:00 pm CST. Welcome to Ace and Roc's fantastic forthcoming spring books preview and giveaway. The weather is slowly but surely warming up, and we've got a lot of great books to talk about (and give away) to keep you entertained, inside or out! Thanks [...]
Mar 27 2011
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.
Mar 27 2011
Welcome to the April 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 [...]
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