Jul 18 2012
Welcome to part two of the 2012 RITA Best First Book interview series. Up today are the rakes and scoundrels, strumpets and spies, ladies and lords. Luscious historical tidbits follow, so let us know in the comments what struck your fancy and if you’d like to win this set of books. About the nominated books…(…)
Jul 10 2012
London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her(…)
Sep 27 2011
Dear Ms. Priest, I was first introduced to your work with Four and Twenty Blackbirds, your Southern gothic debut. I remember liking it but for some reason, I never picked up another book by you again. It happens. So when I saw this book pop up on NetGalley, I glanced at your backlist and was(…)
Sep 7 2011
Dear Mr. Martin, Has there ever been a more anticipated fantasy novel than this? Maybe, but I’d be hard-pressed to think of it. A Game of Thrones, the first novel of your A Song of Ice and Fire series, changed the face of epic fantasy. Made it darker. Grittier. And of course, that thing that(…)
Aug 31 2011
Dear Ms. Banks, Your erotic romances don’t really work for me. I’m not a fan of the one wife for four brothers scenario, and I tried a few others and they fell flat. When I heard you were coming out with a Highlander trilogy that was going to be a different kind of ‘Banks’ story,(…)
Aug 10 2011
Dear Ms. Tyler: I choose this book because I like romantic suspense stories with former special forces heroes (and heroines), I liked Hard to Hold, the first in your previous series, and this story featured a sister and BFF of an older brother romance. The blurb alerted me to the fact that there was a(…)
Jun 30 2011
Shauna Summers is the executive editor for the Ballantine, Bantom, Dell imprint. She edits authors such as Suzanne Brockmann, Shana Abe, and Lara Adrian. Two debuts that she is excited about include Cecilia Grant’s “A Lady Awakened” (hhttp://www.ceciliagrant.com/) that will release in January 2012 and Molly O’Keefe’s contemporary series that will be released in the(…)
Dec 28 2009
Dear Ms. Adrian: I’ve had an on again off again relationship with this series. I adored Midnight Awakening but struggled with Veil of Midnight. I liked Shades better than the last two but not as much as Midnight Awakening. One of the things that I enjoyed about Shades was that the story was more about(…)
Dec 16 2009
Dear. Ms. Kala, Our recent discussions about multiculturalism here at Dear Author reminded me to pluck your book out of a stack sent to me by Jane – our distributor of all advanced and finished copies. The pull quote from Independent clued me in as to what to expect – namely Bridget Jones in a(…)
Aug 23 2009
Shauna Summers, Senior Editor at Random House, gave us a sneak peak at upcoming Bantam/Dell/Ballantine books. Random House also sponsored a giveaway of 27 copies of different books and I threw in 9 ecopies of books for a total of 35 books. Stephanie Tyler scrounged up two ARCs of her fall release, Hard to Hold.(…)
Aug 20 2009
It’s the last call for the week giveaways. I’m going to close the threads today: Ballantine/Bantam Giveaway at noon CST. Goodman Giveaway at midnight CST. Go forth and comment. We’ll be hosting another one of those ACE/BERKLEY ARC giveaways the first week of September. Send to Kindle
Aug 18 2009
Shauna Summers, Senior Editor for Bantam/Ballantine, wanted to share with the Dear Author readers a bit about their fall line up. We thought it would be fun to give away a copy of the book that preceded the upcoming release. For every paper book giveaway, I’m going to giveaway an ecopy of the book via(…)
Jul 1 2009
Buy 2 or more Harlequin eBooks from Sony Store on Wednesdays & you’ll receive a code for a free ebook. Orbit’s $1.00 title is Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson The following are Forever $1.99 titles from Grand Central. Grand Central makes these deals available to all etailers who carry the Forever ebooks but not(…)
Jan 29 2009
Dear Ms. Uviller, It was the back blurb of this book that caught my attention. The mob thinks the heroine is with the FBI. The FBI thinks she’s with the mob. And she’s dating an exterminator? After reading that I just knew I had to try this one. Zephyr Zuckerman has a vivid imagination, four(…)
Jan 13 2009
Kresley Cole is giving away a free Sony Reader. You need to pimp, post, and then be lucky. Other links: AAR Rachel interviews Julia Spencer Fleming, one of my favorite new to me mystery authors that Keishon has been dunning us to read for years. Keishon’s got good mystery taste even though I’m not quite(…)
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