Apr 28 2011
Dear Ms. Carr, Thanks again for sending an advanced copy of your newest book “Ripe for Pleasure” to Dear Author so we can get an early sneak peak at it. When I heard that it would be set during one of my favorite historical periods, Georgian England, that’s all it took for me to be(…)
Apr 27 2011
Dear Ladies, I’ve read that Americans are more interested in British royal weddings than the Brits. Well, the bloom might be off the rose for me after watching Chuck + Di and Andrew + Fergie make hashes of their marriages but I do wish the latest young royal and his bride better luck. At least(…)
Apr 25 2011
Dear Ms. MacLean: I read this book back in February of 2011. I remember the date clearly because I started reading it the night I got to the Tools of Change convention. Angela James, Jenny Bullough (of Harlequin) and Sarah Wendell and I went shoe shopping the following day at what is seems to have(…)
Apr 21 2011
SEVEN NIGHTS OF SIN As the madam of Aphrodite’s Grotto, the most infamous brothel in London, Coral Smythe knows everything possible about men’s needs and desires. Yet she’s never experienced the love of a single man-’not even that of Captain Isaac Wargate whose hawk-like eyes stare at her with both condemnation-and lust. SEVEN NIGHTS OF(…)
Apr 12 2011
People who know me know I’m hyper-sensitive to the portrayal of India and Indians in romance novels, especially British India in European historicals. Eileen Dreyer has a new trilogy, the second volume of which features an English heroine who accompanied her military officer father around the world, including campaigns in India in the early 1800s.(…)
Apr 11 2011
“San Francisco, 1870 Huiann arrives in America expecting to be wed to a wealthy businessman. She no sooner disembarks from the ship than she realizes Xie is not looking for a bride: Huiann is worth more to him as a high-end prostitute. Though her fate is better than that of other Chinese women forced into(…)
Apr 1 2011
Dear Ms. Dreyer, Years ago, while I was waiting for my luggage to appear on the airport carousel an old woman approached me. “Are you an American?” she asked. I said that I was. “Have you ever been to Scotland before?” I said I hadn’t but I was really looking forward to staying in Edinburgh.(…)
Mar 28 2011
Dear Dear Author Readers, Normally, I’d tell you to pay no attention to the (wo)man behind the curtain, but today I’m letting you in, lifting the veil, spilling all of my secrets — my editorial ones, that is. I’m going to take you through the editorial process from soup to nuts or, in this case,(…)
Mar 14 2011
Dear Ms. Rock, I enjoy a good historical mystery and with a cover quote from Ariana Franklin, I knew I had to try your novel “The Rhetoric of Death.” It also didn’t hurt that it has a most unusual setting of late 17th century France and a hero who is on the path to becoming(…)
Mar 8 2011
Dear Mrs. Beverley, When I hear the name “Malloren,” I go to point like a champion gun dog. I’m there, poised and ready to read. But, after my disappointment that your last book didn’t work better for me, I opened this one mentally chanting, “please, please, please.” My prayers paid off as I enjoyed this(…)
Mar 2 2011
Dear Ms. Mullany, When Jane mentioned that you had a new book available for review, I jumped at the chance to read it. I’ve become quite the fan of your books put out by Little Black Dress, and cannot for the life of me understand why these aren’t available for sale in the U.S.* It’s(…)
Feb 24 2011
Dear Ms. Gael, I almost didn’t read your novel after a title mistake on the blurb page. The hero is described as Sir David Knightsbridge, Earl of Wolshingham. Um, just no. Thankfully, this is corrected in the text. Now, on to the review. Winnifred Percy doesn’t want to become the next New York heiress auctioned(…)
Feb 14 2011
Dear Ms. Willig, I’m late, I’m late, I know I’m late in getting to and reading this installment in the “Pink Carnation” series but after my slight disappointment with “Night Jasmine” I’ll be honest and say I wasn’t eager to jump into it. Now that I have, I will cheerfully say it’s my bad that(…)
Feb 10 2011
Dear Ms. Day, I never know what grades to give erotica, because, much like exotic foodstuffs, it is a genre that is peculiarly subjective to what Englishmen call taste, the French call bon gout, and everyone else chalks up to appetite. But let’s be fair, Ms. Day, most erotica is-’even without the idiosyncratic presence of(…)
Feb 1 2011
Dear Ms. Clare, I had missed reading your debut novel The Surrender of a Lady, though I heard intriguing things about it. So when the opportunity came around to read this book, I snatched it up. I wish I could say that it was an unmitigated success, but that’s not quite the case. Richard Mansfield,(…)
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