May 6 2013
Dear Ms. Denker: While told in the limited third person, this book read like a chick lit story reworked into a romance. Emmie Brewster is a young interior decorator working in a small town under an overbearing boss with overblown and stifling tastes. As the story opens, Emmie is too timid to voice her ideas(…)
May 6 2013
From Lauren Willig, author of the New York Times bestselling Pink Carnation series, comes a richly detailed historical saga, THE ASHFORD AFFAIR, spanning from WWI England to colonial Kenya to present-day New York, as one woman discovers the truth about her family’s hidden past and her own present. As a lawyer in a large(…)
May 6 2013
Dear Ms. Archer, An acquaintance recommended you as an author to read so that’s why I decided to take a look at this one. Although I don’t think I was a fan of this one, I think I may go find some of your other books. The third book of the Hellraiser series features Abraham(…)
May 5 2013
Wind Dancer by Jamie Carie. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: Raised in a British-held frontier town during the American Revolution, Isabelle Renoir is not like other women around her. A free spirit, she dances in the moonlight as a praise offering to God and is more at home fearlessly taking her long rifle and(…)
May 5 2013
“It’s 1777 when Captain Jack Absolute becomes a sensation throughout London. This news comes as a shock to the real Jack Absolute when he arrives in England after four months at sea. But there’s little time for outrage before he finds himself dueling for his life. Right when he thinks he’s finally won, he is(…)
May 5 2013
When I was at Romantic Times convention, I heard the news that The Tools of Change conference, a technology and publishing conference, was being shut down. Begun in 2007, the conference was aimed at bringing technology and publishing together. The announcement indicates that the sponsor, O’Reilly, will move on to offering other things. The publishing(…)
May 5 2013
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. The academic and the free spirit! A near-genius, sheltered astrophysicist(…)
May 4 2013
Dangerous Race by Dee J. Adams. $ FREE From the Jacket Copy: Four years ago, race car driver Tracey Bradshaw almost died in a horrific crash. Now scarred inside and out, she’s making a comeback, but her team is plagued by a series of “accidents”. When the team leader dies under mysterious circumstances, former driver(…)
May 4 2013
Dear Mr.Westerfeld, Following an enthusiastic recommendation from Lou of The Book Pushers, I picked up your Leviathan Trilogy, a YA steampunk series, to read with my husband. The series is set in a fun, detailed and engaging if not 100% believable world where World War I is a clash between two technologies, one DNA based(…)
May 4 2013
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. Lillian stared at her waist-length mass of hair in the(…)
May 3 2013
Infinity Blade by Brandon Sanderson. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Trained from birth in swordplay and combat, a young knight named Siris has journeyed to the Dark Citadel with a single purpose: fight through the army of Titans to face the tyrannical God King in one-on-one combat.This was his father’s sacred mission, and his(…)
May 3 2013
NB: This review from AJH is the fourth in his series of “I’m getting to know the romance genre.” His introduction is here. You can buy the book with these links. The Iron Duke takes place in an alt-history steampunk England, some nine years after the revolution which evicted the Mongol Horde. This had me(…)
May 3 2013
This giveaway is for the Dear Author Recommended Read “A Spear of Summer Grass” by Deanna Raybourn. About A Spear of Summer Grass New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julie Grey series enters a new era with A Spear of Summer Grass. Paris, 1923 The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is(…)
May 3 2013
Paris, 1923 The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even amongst Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather’s savannah manor house until gossip subsides. Fairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded(…)
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