Oct 26 2012
Apple’s 2012 Q4 earnings report – Apple’s stock decreased slightly with the news of decreased iPad sales against expectations which seemed pretty robust to me, but I’m not a Wall Street trader. Reuters – International sales accounted for 60 percent of quarter’s revenue – Forecasts Q1 2013 revenue about $52 billion; share about $11.75 Amazon(…)
Oct 24 2012
Harlequin files motion to dismiss – (The link is a PDF document) On October 19, 2012, Harlequin filed a motion to dismiss to the lawsuit for additional royalties brought by a putative (not yet certified) class of authors who signed contracts with Harlequin between 1990 and 2004. (See original coverage of the petition here) In(…)
Oct 1 2012
Cats Entertainment Watch The First Ever Internet Cat Video Festival Winner – I forgot to report on this. This piece was sent to me by reader Leslie. Someone organized a cat video festival and over 10,000 people attended to see awards handed out for the best cat videos on the internet. That’s some job creation(…)
Aug 15 2012
Doubling Down on DRM – Last month, Tor’s entire catalog of ebooks went DRM free. You may have seen that if you went to purchase a Laura Florand backlist title after Sunita’s wonderful review of the Chocolate Thief. According to Cory Doctorow, Hachette UK wants its authors who are also published with Tor to ask(…)
Nov 8 2011
Who doesn’t love a small town Romance? Given Jane’s observation in her 2011 RWA wrap-up that small towns remain very popular, apparently a lot of readers do. Given the comments to that post and various lamentations from readers online, there are many readers who absolutely despise the small town Romance. While all genre devices have(…)
Aug 30 2011
Dear Ms. Dare: You are well known for your cute toy filled book trailers (Stud Club Trilogy / Maya Banks’ Highlander Trilogy) and I was tempted to do a lego review for this book. After all, I have a castle. I bought some canons. I have minifigs where the girl’s boobs look like they are busting out(…)
Aug 19 2011
Limecello has been hosting a charity drive on her blog and it ends this Sunday. Various authors have committed to donating money to the famine relief effort in exchange for comments. You can read more about it here. ***** Sarah and I are conducting a reader panel at RT in 2012. It’s very cool because the(…)
Apr 26 2011
Jun 8 2010
This is only tangentially related to romance books. Oh, what am I saying? This is not at all related to romance books by even the most strained reading but it is an issue that has been on my mind for sometime. Earlier this year, there was an article about Katie Couric and her somewhat provocative(…)
Sep 16 2008
more animals I recently finished reading Linda Howard’s Death Angel. This will not be a review, as I have no idea how to go about reviewing this book. If I were to judge on the usual criteria – plot, characterization, prose – it’d be maybe a B or a B-. But the story made an(…)
Sep 26 2007
Dear Ms. Hunter: I really enjoyed Rules of Seduction and was greatly anticipating Lessons of Desire and the story of the independent and unconventional Phaedra Blair. When I began the book, I was even more interested because I could see that the story that was going to unfold was an exploration of a fundamental feminist(…)
Aug 7 2007
“One line from “My Brilliant Career” has always haunted me. At one point, Sybylla’s Aunt Gussie tells her, “Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence.” My teenage self thought that was an incredibly pithy observation, and I went right home to record it in my journal. When I hear it now, I think,(…)
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