Feb 21 2013
DRM Lawsuit Filed By Independent Bookstores Against Amazon, ‘Big Six’ Publishers – I think we all know that I am not a fan of DRM. I have also argued repeatedly that getting rid of DRM would reduce Amazon’s strangehold over readers and allow other bookstores to compete more readily with Amazon. DRM is a huge(…)
Dec 14 2012
Dear Ms. Knightley: This book is the romance between the Earl of Raleigh, Richard Moore, and Jane Bunting, baker and proprietress of a confectionaire’s shop. Jane has good reason to despise the aristocracy and first meetings with Richard only serve to cement her opinion that they run London with little thought to the lower classes.(…)
Apr 30 2012
My goodness, it’s been a long time since I wrote my last “what I’ve been reading/watching” post. I know I’ve been bad, bad, bad about this. So with no more excuses, here goes. Reading Lessons in Laughing Out Loud by Rowan Coleman I’m not sure what the author was aiming for here. I started this(…)
Apr 10 2012
Dear Ms. Edwards, I’ve read all three books in your Rising Star Chef series and, of all of the couples in the series, my favorite hands down is Claire Durand and Kane Slater. This, really, is a bummer because, in all three books, they are secondary characters though their love story, finally resolved in this(…)
Nov 4 2011
Dear Ms. Mileti What got me interested in trying your first book is the excerpt you sent us and the opening scene in it. Here is a woman wronged who apparently didn’t take her husband’s betrayal of their marriage vows lightly but who, in this modern age, found herself treated as the villain of the(…)
Aug 18 2010
Dear Ms. Blackwell, I hadn’t read an m/m in a while and decided to splurge on this story of one hot Parisian chef who meets his match in a cool English food critic. Luc Tessier is hot tempered, sexually demanding of his minions – who really don’t seem to mind too much, a top vegetarian(…)
Jun 3 2010
Dear Ms. Harrington, Celebrity chefs and cook off challenges aren’t my passion. I like to cook but hate to clean up so having one hanging around my kitchen to do my scut work for me would be nice, though. And if he looked like I imagine Brett Cameron does, that would be a bonus because(…)
Nov 28 2008
Aug 7 2008
Dear Ms. Hardy, I may not be a foodie but I love food as unfortunately my butt shows. I don’t have the greenest thumb yet I can manage to keep plants alive. Usually. Well, at least for a while. So anyway, watching chef Damon Hurst and landscaper Cady McBain clash and spark was as much(…)
Jul 24 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: July, August, and September sees the release of your Keys’ Bakery sisters series. The series begins with Claire, a piano virtuoso. Claire has been estranged from her family since, well, almost forever. When she was 3 years old, she walked up to a piano and started playing and her life changed forever.(…)
Jul 16 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: I’ve gone on a bit of a Mallery glom and the readers here will have to suffer along with me. Delicious is the second book I read in the Buchanan series. I read book 2, Irresistible, first. I’m not sure whether knowing the outcome of the story in Delicious affected my enjoyment(…)
May 20 2008
Dear Mrs. Reinhardt, I started out thinking this book would be one thing – your attempts at cooking told in a humorous style – and ended up with something much different. Instead we get annecdotes of Southern life that involve cooking or attempted cooking or dodging cooking that do bring to mind the gentle style(…)
Jan 5 2008
Dear Ms. Martin: I read this on the heels of the Top Chef finale. While I am a decent cook, I am no chef but I love all things food related. The love of food makes this cooking oriented novel hit the right spot for me. Vivi Robitaille has come to America to open her(…)
Oct 19 2007
We’re no strangers to plagiarism here at Dear Author. While out and out copying is easy to spot, strong similarities is a more murky area. The number 2 book on the USA Today bestseller list and the Number 1 hardcover on the Advice, How-To and Misc NYT list is Jessica Seinfeld’s “Deceptively Delicious“. A number(…)
Sep 26 2007
Dear Mr. Capella, I’m so glad your editor persuaded you to write this book. And for the positive buzz at various other romance review sites that brought it to my attention. I’ve also heard that it’s already been optioned for a movie and after reading it, I can see why. The descriptions of Italy and(…)
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