Apr 28 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. Immortal Gambler: Blurb Ariel: Ariel is broke, in debt(…)
Apr 28 2013
A couple of weeks ago Kobo announced a new reading device, the Aura HD. The Aura brings something new to the table when it comes to eInk readers, a little bit larger screen with a higher resolution than ever before. While the most common size for eInk readers has for years been the 6 inch(…)
Apr 27 2013
Down by Contact by Jami Davenport. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: After twelve years in the league, all Zach Murphy wants is a Super Bowl ring. He’s been about hard hits not smooth manners, about breaking quarterbacks not making small talk at cocktail parties. But now he’s shattered something else. After dumping a tray(…)
Apr 27 2013
Dear Ms. Dare, I may have had it with Spindle Cove, your Regency-era haven for unusual young women and the men who love them.* The place has become nettlesomely toothsome, rather like Gwyeth Paltrow gushing over adorable organic baby blankets. This novella, Beauty and the Blacksmith, is a quick, easy read, the equivalent of a(…)
Apr 27 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. “You know that is quite impossible.” Clara Burbank declared as(…)
Apr 26 2013
Wild Orchids by Karen Robards. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Prim mid-western schoolteacher Lora Harding is in for the summer vacation of her life when darkly handsome American Max Maxwell slides into her rented car in steamy Cancun, Mexico and orders her to “drive” at gunpoint. Max and his men break Americans out of(…)
Apr 26 2013
Wow. Okay. So, this book sort of ripped out my heart, threw it around a bit, tore it to shreds and then tossed the wreckage to the small purple flowers. I should probably warn you straight off that this review/article/column/discussion/thingy will be low on lulz and contains absolutely no pictures of pandas, sad or otherwise. (…)
Apr 26 2013
Dear Ms. Abé, As a longtime reader of your fantasy-romance Drakon series (books aimed at adults), I was eager to read your newest book, The Sweetest Dark, which is both related to the Drakon series, and the first book in a new series aimed at readers of YA. You state on your website that The(…)
Apr 26 2013
I came across this picture and this video while browsing Reddit. Rajesh Kumar Sharma founded a free school in the slums of India. Their schoolroom is a space under a bridge. Their blackboards are concrete walls. First world problems are anything that doesn’t include having to gain an education under a bridge in a(…)
Apr 25 2013
All I Want For Christmas is a Duke by Máire Claremont . $ Free From the Jacket Copy: A Christmas anthology by two hot names in historical fiction… Merry Christmas, Mrs. Robinson by Delilah Marvelle Lady Jane left her father, the Earl of Chadwick, and the ton behind to experience life on the stage. After(…)
Apr 25 2013
Dear Ms. Beck: Part of this book was great. The other parts made me cringe and I used SHOUTY notes at points on the PDF review copy I received. BUT, I was engaged for most of the book which is more than I can say about some of the stories I’ve been reading. When her(…)
Apr 25 2013
Dear Ms. Maguire, I decided to read “Making Him Sweat” because I like to try new-to-me authors at Harlequin, I hadn’t read a Blaze book for a while, and I wanted to see if a book about boxers could hold my attention. I mean no insult to boxing but it’s not a sport I follow(…)
Apr 25 2013
This is just for fun and because Jayne sent it to me. Internet sales tax: who’s for it, who’s against & what comes next – An Internet sales tax is about to pass the Senate and may do so as early as the end of this week. It may surprise you that Amazon is a(…)
Apr 24 2013
The Beekeeper’s Lament by Hannah Nordhaus. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: The honey bee is a willing conscript, a working wonder, an unseen and crucial link in America’s agricultural industry. But never before has its survival been so unclear—and the future of our food supply so acutely challenged. Enter beekeeper John Miller, who trucks(…)
Apr 24 2013
Dear DA friends: Many moons ago, Dear Author posted a debut author interview for Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles. That didn’t intrigue me as much as Booksmuggler’s adoration for the book (word of mouth and hand-selling, right?). That got me intrigued enough to use one of my monthly Audible credits to buy the audiobook. So(…)
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