May 16 2008
My reading comprehension has gone down the toilet. Apparently, we are for sale at the Brenda Novak auction today. You are bidding for the ad space on the right sidebar. Here is our stats: Mea culpa for telling you all the auction for us was tomorrow. Send to Kindle
May 15 2008
I wanted to put up a post pimping the Brenda Novak Diabetes Auction and our small contribution and decided to do a summary post on some features here at Dear Author in anticipation of my next Tuesday post. If you have a question that you want to ask about Dear Author, blogging, my reading habits,(…)
May 11 2008
I was going to blog about Net Neutrality but I got home late from a couple’s baby shower where everyone drank but the mother to be. There’s some kind of cruelty in that. My Net Neutrality piece is in pieces and not fit for public consumption and I lack the perspicacity to blog with any(…)
May 6 2008
From Jayne A Lady’s Secret by Jo Beverley. “I’ve gone on and on about what I liked about the book but I think the best way to show how much I like it is to say that after I read the free arc we got, I went out and bought my own copy. A-” Read(…)
Apr 23 2008
I had a reader ask if she could get the blog posts in her email box. I searched around and found a plugin that allows subscribed readers to get each blog post as an email. You can subscribe here. Send to Kindle
Apr 23 2008
We’ve had a bit of a firestorm here at Dear Author and many new readers (hello new visitors). I thought it might be worthwhile to do a bit of post mortem on the recent brou ha ha. For new visitors, let me give you a bit of a history. I started Dear Author in April(…)
Mar 20 2008
Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site. [poll=13] [poll=17] Thanks to our sponsors: Paperspine Harlequin Send to Kindle
Mar 18 2008
64 Books Enter. One Book Leaves. Because we are having fun getting the brackets in and mostly because the games of the NCAA Tournament are not going to be played until Thursday, we are allowing people to fill out brackets until Wednesday at 11:59 pm. The deets again are as follows: Dear Author and the(…)
Mar 16 2008
64 Books Enter. One Book Leaves. Dear Author and the Smart Bitches present the DA BWAHA Tournament. We have fielded a slate of 64 “best” books in 8 different categories: Young Adult Paranormal Erotica/Erotic Romance GLBT Historical Contemporary Novel With Romantic Elements Category Today through Wednesday 7 am EST, you are allowed to fill out(…)
Mar 13 2008
It’s March Madness time which means brackets, spoilers, and, of course, romance books! Admittedly, the last element of the list is a rarely known component of March Madness, one that is often lost amongst the basketball hoopla. Which is so wrong, we will do all kinds of crazy shit to make it right. We thought(…)
Feb 17 2008
Last week, Harlequin sent bloggers an email letting us know about the Harlequin reading challenge. If readers read and blog about 100,000 books in 2008, Harlequin will donate 100,000 books to the National Center for Family Literacy, a donation valued at approximately $700,000.00 US. In the comments, many expressed a desire to participate. Here are(…)
Jan 9 2008
Joanna Bourne FTW! Three of us here at Dear Author have read Joanna Bourne’s The Spymaster’s Lady and the consensus is that it is super fabulous. The heroine is an amazing French spy who everyone believes holds the plans to Albion, the French invasion of Great Britain. This sets spymaster Grey, Head of the entire(…)
Jan 6 2008
Jayne and I have a great fondness for e published books. Since the inception of this blog, we have been reading and reviewing books that are published by houses which specialize in releasing books in the e format. We thought that it would be nice to do a little 2007 retrospective on the ebooks that(…)
Dec 31 2007
As if you couldn’t tell. We’ve some complaints about how slow the website loads so we’ve (I’ve) re-designed the blog. There will be some growing pains and not all the pages have been recoded but I hope that this provides a good compromise between the old site’s familiarity and the new site’s convenience. Please feel(…)
Dec 9 2007
Source: Ann Aguirre’s Grimspace on my iPhone Last week, I wrote about my frustrations with ebooks and current ebook technology. Jayne, my blogging partner, commented that if she had read the article before I had converted her to ebooks, she would never have wanted to try them out. I felt like I needed to write(…)
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