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(…)
Apr 24 2013
Updated: The Giveaway is now closed. You can see the winners in the widget. Thanks for participating folks! a Rafflecopter giveaway Remember when I blogged about the StoryBundle that was put together for the Science Fiction Fantasy fans? The StoryBundle people are back with a package of female authors and they offered five copies to(…)
Apr 24 2013
Dear Ms. McQuein, Like many other readers of YA novels, I’ve grown somewhat weary of the paranormal and urban fantasy titles in the genre. I want a change and have been trying to find more thrillers and science fiction titles to inject some enthusiasm in my reading blues. That your debut combined these two things(…)
Apr 24 2013
Publishers Marketplace: The Latest Deals – Publishers Marketplace quietly added a new category to its Deals listing: New Adult. The change did not go unnoticed and some people (agents in some cases I guess) reacted very unhappily, not unlike some readers here at Dear Author. Apparently New Adult must have killed someone’s parents (historical mama(…)
Apr 23 2013
Last Summer by Theresa Weir. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: A young widow… A self-destructive celebrity… A small town in Texas… This book is an all-out unabashed, unselfconscious romance. No mystery. No suspense. Not a lot of external motivation. It’s all about two people. A lot of angst, a lot of drama, a lot(…)
Apr 23 2013
Dear Ms. Garnier: I’ve been a fan of yours since “Satin Sash” for your ability to write emotionally charged love scenes and I’ve read everything you’ve written, although most of it has been shorter works including this one. I still think you write great sex scenes but the actual falling in love and character arcs(…)
Apr 23 2013
This good girl’s going bad…. Merry Kade has always been the good girl. The best friend. The one who patiently waits for the guy to notice her. Well, no more. Merry has just scored her dream job, and it’s time for her life to change. As the new curator of a museum in Wyoming, she’ll(…)
Apr 23 2013
2013 Romance Cover Trends – Stairs, Dresses and Fences…Oh My! Linnae at the Cover Cafe points out a few trends from stairways to dresses to fences. The big big big dress that looks like it is spawning five other dresses has been around for a while. I’m not in love with it. Cover Cafe How(…)
Apr 23 2013
Last week I discussed the device of forced seduction as part of the literary legacy of North American captivity narratives on genre Romance. As I’ve noted several times during this series, I think that the genre as it has developed in America, at least (and I would include a good deal of Harlequin’s offerings in(…)
Apr 22 2013
Tumbleweeds by Leila Meacham. $ 2.99 From the Jacket Copy: Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns(…)
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