Nov 16 2013
Dear Ms. O’Neal, I’m not quite sure where to begin. This is a very odd book. I’m still dipping my toes into new adult so I’m not as well-versed in the genre as others, but Random struck me as a novel that fails to live up to expectations or even to the cover copy. Jess(…)
Nov 16 2013
Close To The Edge by Suzanne Ferrell. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Westen Series #2, where small-town romance meets an edge of suspense. After facing death as an undercover narcotics cop, Gage Justice has come home to heal. His recuperation is cut short by his father’s unexpected diagnosis of cancer and subsequent death. Now(…)
Nov 16 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. Chapter One “You want five dollars for that old stadium(…)
Nov 15 2013
Cost of Repairs by A.M. Arthur. $ Free From the Jacket Copy: Fixing the home can heal the heart-if you can find all the pieces. Police officer Samuel Briggs is getting to know the people on his new, third-shift beat, but he’d prefer they not know too much about him-or the painful past that drove(…)
Nov 15 2013
Dear Ms. Harrison, I’ve enjoyed the previous books in this series on audio – this is the first one I’ve read. Having listened to Sophie Eastlake narrate the previous five books though, I still heard her voice reading me the story as I devoured Kinked. I also have a confession to make. Aryal was never(…)
Nov 15 2013
I’ve spent probably a few thousand words chatting via email with various readers about this book so I knew it would be a great topic for discussion. Because I have a lot of admiration for Smith’s work, I was not hesitant to ask her difficult questions and her candor and forthrightness really impressed me. You(…)
Nov 15 2013
It’s probably not a secret by now that I love novellas. There’s a grace and compactness to them that, when done well, makes for a beautiful gem of a story. And that’s what we have here: a beautiful gem of a story. I was utterly charmed from the first word to the last. (Really(…)
Nov 15 2013
Google wins fair use ruling against the Author’s Guild (pdf link)– The Google Book Settlement was thrown out and the case proceeded forward as fast as a newborn snail. A summary judgment ruling from Judge Chin (now on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals) gave Google a decisive victory. Scanning a full text, indexing it, and(…)
Nov 14 2013
Tom Holt by Doughnut. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps. For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more. Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has(…)
Nov 14 2013
Dear Ms. Dalton: I believe I’ve mentioned that this year has been rough for me, historical-romance-wise. Historicals remain my first romance love, though, so I return to the sub-genre like the swallows to San Juan Capistrano (or possibly like lemmings to a cliff). Anyway, someone somewhere mentioned that Never Desire a Duke had positive buzz(…)
Nov 14 2013
Today is Escape Publishing’s first birthday. To celebrate its birthday, it is hosting giveaways all over the internet this week. Today’s giveaway here at Dear Author is for one of the following bundles. In other words, three random winners will receive one bundle of digital books. Enter the rafflecopter that best suits your reading(…)
Nov 14 2013
I arrived in the Alice at five a.m. with a dog, six dollars and a small suitcase full of inappropriate clothes. . . . There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns. For Robyn Davidson, one of these moments comes at age twenty-seven in Alice Springs, a dodgy(…)
Nov 14 2013
First, tomorrow is our Book Club discussion of The Last Hour of Gann by R Lee Smith. I asked the author some hard questions and she took them on. I think it was one of the more interesting and provoking author interviews partly because I’m a pretty inept interviewer but mostly because Ms. Smith really(…)
Nov 13 2013
Sepharad by Antonio Munoz Molina. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: From one of Spain’s most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book—at once fiction, history, and memoir—that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin’s purges to tell a twentieth-century story. Shifting seamlessly from the past to the present and following the routes of(…)
Nov 13 2013
Dear Serena Bell: Despite the fact that the United States is experiencing its highest levels of immigration since the turn of the 19th/20th century, I rarely come across contemporary romance novels that feature immigrant protagonists. And given the controversial nature of immigration policy today, especially with respect to undocumented immigrants, I didn’t ever expect to(…)
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