JaneB- Reviewshistorical romance / India6 Comments

Dear Ms. Kimberly: I meant to review this near your release date and forgot. It’s set in India and at first I was resistant to read it because there’s this problem of setting British people in India although to not write about that time period would be rather like forgetting a ... more >

August 13, 2014

Wednesday News: Silicon Valley’s lack of diversity, Technology and the future of education, social media and group mourning, and ebook subscription services

JanetPublishing NewsApple / community / diversity / Ebooks / economy / education / social media / subscription / technology / Twitter10 Comments

Apple’s numbers prove again that Silicon Valley is run by white and Asian men – Depending on where you have dinner in Napa, you can see this phenomenon play out anecdotally in terms of who has money to eat posh. And it follows the pattern asserted in this Quartz article. ... more >

JaneBook DealsDeals7 Comments

The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no ... more >

KaetrinC+ Reviewscollege / Contemporary / geek / jock / m/m romance / nerd2 Comments

Dear Ms. Grey, Greg London is a gay engineering graduate student who shares a house with three other guys.  The most recent addition is Marshall Sulkowski, a senior undergrad who is studying history while on a baseball scholarship.  As it happens, Marsh is “bi-ish” – “Girls are fine. Guys are ... more >

JanetLetters of Opinionerotica / genre / marketing / Riptide / Romance / slave fantasy25 Comments

If you’ve been on Twitter the past couple of days, you may have seen the minor skirmish over Riptide’s Belongingverse, a website created in 2011 by Rachel Haimowitz and presented via Riptide Publishing, which straddled the line between book promotion and slave fantasy content like classified ads for the purchase of human ... more >

August 12, 2014

Tuesday News: Harper Collins funds booksellers, Tor for higher ed, Apple’s education, and Penguin gets wiggy

JanetPublishing Newsacademic freedom / Apple / covers / Harper Collins / independent booksellers / Penguin Classics / privacy / Publishers / Roald Dahl / technology / Tor18 Comments

Harper Has New Indie Marketing Fund – As of July 1st, retailers may receive money based on their sales of Harper Collins books for the previous year, with which they can “promote creative merchandising” of Harper Collins books. It’s an interesting way to incentivize booksellers to promote Harper Collins authors ... more >