Jane Eyre

REVIEW:  A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont

REVIEW: A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont

Dear Ms. Mont, I purchased your book quite by accident. I was browsing through samples on my kindle and thought I would give yours a try since the topic was interesting and not overdone. While there has been a lot of Austen-esque retellings, I haven’t seen many for Bronte works, and thought why not. When(…)

REVIEW: The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey

REVIEW: The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey

Dear Ms. Livesey, The cover song has always occupied a precarious position in the annals of music lovers. On the one hand, it is quite a safe thing to do—cover someone else’s song. One already knows that it is beloved. One already knows what sort of person might like that song. It has a brand, a(…)

DVD REVIEW: A&E’s “The Romance Collection: Special Edition” “Jane Eyre”

DVD REVIEW: A&E’s “The Romance Collection: Special Edition” “Jane Eyre”

A while back we received an unusual request at Dear Author. We were asked to review something other than a book -’ a DVD set called "The Romance Collection: Special Edition." The 14 DVD set, which can be found here, usually retails for $99.95 but is currently on sale for $59.97, and contains nearly 30(…)

EPPIE Judges Know Good Writing When They Read It Just Not that It Was Someone Else’s Good Writing

EPPIE Judges Know Good Writing When They Read It Just Not that It Was Someone Else’s Good Writing

There was that story running around the interwebs a while back that some guy had mashed up a bunch of Jane Austen stories and submitted them to publishing houses and agents to see if Jane Austen could still get published today. The big story was that the publishing folks were rejecting it because Jane Austen(…)