February 4, 2014

Tuesday News: Rabih Alameddine loves his characters, Adobe hates you, Tech companies love transparency (sometimes), who loves a stolen book?, and when loving lasts too long

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / author interview / DRM / Google / Libraries / NSA / privacy / sexual-encounters31 Comments

Interview: Rabih Alameddine, Author Of ‘An Unnecessary Woman’ – Alameddine’s novel features a heroine who works in a bookstore in Beirut and translates her favorite stories into Arabic, never to be sold or published. Despite the title and Aaliyah’s circumstances, she is happy and fulfilled. I adore Alameddine’s response to a question ... more >

February 4, 2014

The Reader’s Ever Changing Hard Limits

JaneLetters of OpinionAuthor Reader Relationship / Reader Habits46 Comments

A few years ago I wrote a post about the reader’s consent. Essentially the argument I made is that authors have to win over the readers’ consent to move on to the next stage in a story. Most debates over books arise because readers have different limits on when they’ll ... more >

February 3, 2014

Daily Deals: Historicals, contemporaries, and a gripping true story

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Samantha Towle’s bestselling book “Trouble” is on sale for 99c. This is the one where the blurb contains a lot of running. The Sweetest Seduction by Crista McHugh. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Lia Mantovani has created one of the hottest restaurants on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, but all that ... more >

February 3, 2014

REVIEW: Battle of Will by Sasha L. Miller

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At a memorial service meant to honor the dead and mark the beginning of a truce between Skirfall and Morcia, Ackley spies a figure who does not belong—a mage interrogator whose presence will only cause harm should the Morcians realize who he is and all the people he has tortured. ... more >

February 3, 2014

REVIEW: Cloaked in Danger by Jeannie Ruesch

Guest ReviewerDNF ReviewsHistorical / Regency5 Comments

Dear Ms. Ruesch, I asked to review this book largely because it appeared as though some of the characters had links to Egypt, and to a lesser extent because I tend to enjoy some suspense in my romance reading. I am sorry to say that neither of these things really ... more >

February 3, 2014

Monday News: Apple behaves badly (again), Avon tries out a new type of story, Rowling regrets Hermione coupling, and movie-talk as marriage counseling

JanetPublishing NewsApple / Avon / divorce / Erotic-Romance / Google / Harry-Potter / J.K. Rowling / marriage / tech19 Comments

The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers’ wages – This story provides some of the detail around a class action lawsuit filed against more than 100,000 Silicon Valley tech workers, whose salaries were artificially suppressed to the tune of $9 billion. Apple, Google, Adobe, ... more >