Anah Crow

Sarah’s Best of 2011 List

Sarah’s Best of 2011 List

The order here is me going through my reviews in reverse chronological order and listing my A- and B+ reviews (no A reviews — very sad). It was a pleasant surprise, really: I didn’t think I’d read that many good books in 2011. Shows you how memory can be a fickle thing. To keep it [...]

PRIDE WEEK: Introduction and BDSM Recommendations by Sarah

PRIDE WEEK: Introduction and BDSM Recommendations by Sarah

We’re celebrating Pride Week here at Dear Author! (I’d post a GIF with glittery rainbows here, but I like writing for DA and don’t want Jane to cut me. ;) Each day this week, DA reviewers will be posting something to commemorate Pride. Today I (Sarah) am recommending three m/m BDSM romances I consider to [...]

Best of 2008 List: Reviewer Joan/Sarah F

Dr. Frantz is our resident professor (but not our only literature scholar) whose DA moniker is Joan. She is reviewing primarily m/m fiction that is epublished although she is a reader of a wide range of romance authors with Suzanne Brockmann and Kresley Cole being a couple of her favorite print authors. Dr. Frantz brings [...]

Ethics of Reviewing vs. Objectivity of Analysis

When I was a baby graduate student, my future dissertation adviser said in class one day, “I don’t care whether a text is good.   I care whether I can say something interesting about it.” I was horrified, absolutely convinced she was wrong.   How can one not care about whether a text is good or not?! [...]

GUEST REVIEW:  Uneven by Anah Crow

GUEST REVIEW: Uneven by Anah Crow

I emailed Jane a couple of days ago, wondering if she’d be interested in reviews of BDSM romances (BDSM is a combination acronym of the sexual practices/identities of Bondage/Discipline, Domination/Submission, and Sadist/Masochism and covers under its umbrella many sexual paraphilia and fetishes). While I’m a contributing blogger at Teach Me Tonight and at Romancing the [...]