Dec 6 2012
It’s official: the RT Book Blogger Convention is on the RT site, and we have a registration form ready to go! REGISTRATION LINK. A few important points: 1. Registration is $30.00. Registration is not confirmed until payment is received. The fee covers breakfast, lunch, and a full day of panel discussions. 2. We’re handling payments(…)
Sep 18 2012
Book bloggers help us discover new authors; make us think about our genre; and help us to connect with readers. This is a feature that we run approximately once a month to highlight a blogger in the community that you may not have heard of. Today’s featured blogger is Romance Around the Corner. When(…)
Jul 7 2012
If you couldn’t tell by the last couple of weeks’ posts about Automator and Belvedere, I am a big fan of automating repetitive tasks in my life. This way I can spend more time creating content, reading or just laying about the house. I’ve been telling everyone how much I enjoyed Charles Duhigg’s book “The(…)
Jul 3 2012
During 2012, I’m trying to highlight a few bloggers in the romance blogosphere just in case you all were looking for more resources for book recommendations. Today we are featuring Wicked Little Pixie. I’ve heard Natasha and Sara are from Canada but their blogging pals cover the rest of the U.S. with Pamela from Texas(…)
Jun 24 2012
One of the panels that BEA Bloggercon has had for a couple of years is managing relationships between publishers and bloggers. Bloggers bemoan the seemingly relentless focus on statistics, something a new blogger often stresses over. From speaking with other reviewers at BEA, there was a desire for greater discussion about relationships and not numbers. (…)
Mar 5 2011
I’ve been reading some posts about this YAMafia theory running around the internet. Regular readers of Dear Author should be very familiar with this given the past history in romance. It’s almost a relief to see the “be nice” mantra being preached outside of romance. Huzzah, all fandoms are dysfunctional. Essentially the theory is that(…)
Oct 18 2010
Diana Gabaldon disclosed to a reading group in Charleston that her eighth novel in the Jamie/Claire saga won’t be released for a couple of years. It sounds like the book is yet unwritten. Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner should be released in 2011. **** Heather Osborn, formerly an editor with Tor, has been announced(…)
Nov 11 2009
Generation Y women like social networking and sharing their thoughts on the products that they buy. This is, apparently, news. It is not something that ebook manufacturers have caught on yet, though. The current ebook reader enthusiast is a 47-year-old married man with a household income in excess of 6 figures. But! researchers believe that(…)
Jul 29 2009
Barnes and Noble will offer free ATT wifi access in all its retail stores. Once on the wifi access, you’ll be able to get access to instore promotions and the ability to buy your ebooks. Wendy, the SuperLibrarian, wonders if bloggers can actually make a book. Wendy says that publicists can’t expect this of a(…)
Sep 26 2008
Back in June or so, some bloggers formed a group blog called DIKladiesrule. It’s a fun place that features interviews with authors and alot of book chat about the bloggers’ favorite books. About late June, Dear Author started a feature called “If You Like” based upon the shelftalkers at bookstores. It came to my attention(…)
Sep 5 2008
We talk alot about Keishon here at Dear Author because she is a dear friend to many of the Dear Author bloggers. She is also one of the primary influences on my reading (as well as others here) for outside the romance genre recommendations. She got me started reading PJ Tracy and Karin Slaughter (although(…)
Aug 26 2008
more animals Do you remember the movie "Election," with Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick? In the first scene Mr. McAllister asks his high school class about the difference between ethics and morals. Ironically, of course, the one student who eagerly attempts to answer the question is also the one who proceeds to make mincemeat of(…)
Feb 19 2008
moar humorous pics In the past few weeks, we here at Dear Author have talked about author ethics and it occurred to me that we haven’t talked alot about blogging ethics. While I do think that ethics is a community issue, I am not trying to force my ethics on anyone else in the blogging(…)
Feb 9 2008
A new study indicates that bloggers and social networks could have a direct impact on album sales. The research indicated that there was a direct correlation between the amount of “chatter” prior to the release of an album and its eventual sales. The more chatter, the better the album sold. Based on the volume of(…)
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