Apr 1 2013
Updated: the new commenting policy is explicitly stated above the comment box and an elaboration can be found here. The comments to this post are closed. If you have concerns or isssues with the commenting policy, please address them on the new Commeting Policy page this way the concerns and issues can be centralized in(…)
Jan 2 2013
Introduction All the news today is about Dear Author and what you can look forward to in 2013. We also want to hear from you what you would like to read more about. Dear Author Promotes Retail Diversity As of January 1, 2013, we will no longer review books that are not available in at(…)
Oct 29 2012
I know I originally promised to open the ad book in 2013, but I had some delays (obviously). But we are ready to open it up now. We have two ad slots available. Zone 2 and Zone 4. Zone 2 is 200 x 300 (25% SOV) – only May, August, October, November, and December are(…)
Oct 26 2012
Apparently Google looks like it will stop supporting Feedburner. Feedburner is what we used to deliver our RSS Feed and our daily digests via email. Based on this, we are switching our feed back to the wordpress default and delivering our daily digests via email. If you have already signed up for a daily digest,(…)
Jul 27 2012
This is a video of a number of authors on the subject of sex in books: Erica Jong on writing about sex as a way of finding answers, Lawrence Block on the definition of erotica, Patricia Gaffney on historical romances, Suzanne Forster on the importance of sexual tension, and Eileen Goudge on the eighty-year-old woman(…)
Jun 13 2012
To handle the influx of requests from individual authors (not publishers), we’ve developed a handy form for authors to use to submit their books. Form here. Currently and in the past, I’ve had authors email me and I’ve used my best judgment in turning away books or forwarding them on. I don’t believe that was(…)
May 27 2012
Announcement. Beginning in 2013, Dear Author will only review books that are available in both epub and Kindle formats. Let me explain why. There are two primary reasons why all books should be available in epub and Kindle formats. The first reason is that competition is important for even (or especially) Kindle users. The second(…)
May 19 2012
My life at Dear Author started in December a couple years back. I had begun reading it and Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. I had discovered a love of romance novels and wanted more and more information about them and their readers – even though, at the time, I had almost no access to said romance(…)
May 15 2012
I started writing for Dear Author because I wanted to share my absolute fangirl love for Anah Crow’s brilliant SM romance, Uneven. Jane kindly published a Guest Review and then generously invited me to join the DA reviewers. I’ve been reviewing for DA ever since (3 years and 8 months). Reading for and writing the(…)
Apr 10 2012
I thought it would be fun if reminisced about our first romance read. To prime the pump, so to speak, I asked the Dear Author crew to write up a small post about their first romance reads. Share your own reading experiences in the comments. Janine (link to Janine’s posts) I was thirteen years old(…)
Apr 8 2012
We actually turned six on April 3. Jayne and I started the blog on April 3, 2006, and we had a few friends who came and read the blog. Now we have a few more friends. Seriously we have the best community of readers here at Dear Author and we want to celebrate our readership(…)
Mar 21 2012
There are a couple of ways that you can contribute to DA. We will also be developing a reader interview questionnaire. I would love some help on developing that interview sheet. (Note that these links will always be in the sidebar) Write a guest review. From time to time, we post guest reviews of books(…)
Mar 19 2012
First up we have the winners of the Molly O’Keefe ARC and the Caitlin Crews novel. We are giving these away in conjunction with a beautiful post by the two authors on Shame and the Romance Heroine. Winners have been emailed and requested to please fill out the form at the bottom. Next, we(…)
Mar 12 2012
Update: We have two slots left in April, June, July and December. All other months are sold out. We are now sold out. As announced on Friday, we will be opening a new ad slot beginning in April. The Ad space will be 200 x 200 (the size of the image above) and will cost(…)
Mar 2 2012
I’m implementing a new commenting policy at Dear Author. While we have always welcomed (and sometimes tolerated) anonymous commenters, there is an increasing tendency of a few people (mostly newbies) to engage in bad commenting behavior. Thus, in the future, if a commenter engages in sock puppeting as defined below, I will note that in(…)
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