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
I had a great time reading the comments to the Dear Author Is Six post. We have some great new content that we will be producing in part due to the comments including a Dear Author Book Club, more If You Like posts, a collection of post creating a romance canon for each sub genre [...]
Apr 16 2012
Dear Ms. Gale, This premise had ‘January’ written all over it. The erotic adventures of Jane (from the Tarzan books)? It sounded like a fun read to me. Unfortunately, it wasn’t what I had in mind. I had imagined this to be an erotic retelling of Jane and Tarzan. Instead, this is a series that [...]
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 [...]
Apr 16 2012
Week Ending April 10, 2012 The Price of Innocence by Susan Sizemore * * A | BN | K | S | ARE Scandal Wears Satin by Loretta Chase * * A | BN | K | S Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day * * A | BN | K | [...]
Apr 16 2012
Dear Ms. Augustine, Lately, I’ve been suffering from a problem that affects many paranormal romance fans: Sexy Vampire Fatigue. Yes, I’m kind of tired of sexy vampires. I miss the scary vampires. The blurb for your novella Bound for Trouble promised a sci-fi world in which vampires once brutally ruled humanity, but are now imprisoned [...]
Apr 15 2012
One thing that I’ve heard repeatedly from any publisher is that Amazon is a bad business partner. It doesn’t matter if the publisher is an agency pricing publisher or a low priced digital only publisher. Amazon treats everyone poorly. Amazon needs competition. Amazon has no motivation to keep prices low, innovate their retail site, improve [...]
Apr 14 2012
From Nicci: I am recommending this book because From the very first chapter, I was hooked. The storyline is compelling and kept me enthralled, but it’s the characters that commanded my attention. Silhara is one of the most interesting heroes I’ve ever read, and Martise’s quiet strength and determination is the perfect complement to such [...]
Apr 14 2012
Dear Ms. Bray-Weber, I can honestly say I’ve never read a book like your pirate romance A Kiss on the Wind. Not only is it the only pirate romance I’ve read, it’s the only historical romance I’ve read where the heroine isn’t a virgin and no reason is given for that. I’ve read plenty of historical [...]
Apr 14 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. Friday, December 16, 2011 Some people just wanna die. Elmore [...]
Apr 13 2012
Dear Ms. Callahan: I did receive a copy of your book from a publicist to review but I ended up buying the book from Amazon as I believe it was discounted at one point and I prefer to read digital over paper. I had heard good things about your book and was excited to read [...]
Apr 13 2012
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Apr 13 2012
Peau D’ane (Donkey Skin) (1971) Genre: Romantic Fairy Tale Grade:B+ Last year after I had reviewed a series of Cinderella movies, a friend recommended that I try this French fairy tale called Donkey Skin – or Peau D’ane. I was game and rented it from Netflix. Talk about beautiful European WTFery. Holy heck. This one [...]
Apr 12 2012
“Kathryn West has it all–she’s a confident, bestselling author living it up in New York City. Too bad she doesn’t actually exist, and is only timid Maddie Sawyer’s pseudonym. Determined to attend her high school reunion with a man right out of one of her racy romance novels, she plots to find a sexy bad [...]
Apr 12 2012
I recently shared with Dear Author my favorite historical romances. Today I’m pulling out my favorite romantic suspense novels. These are kept in my Kindle collection: bad guys, good sex, true love. I’ve not read as much romantic suspense as I have historical romance so my bad guys, good sex, true love collection currently only has [...]
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