Jill Sorenson

My Sunday at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Part 3

My Sunday at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Part 3

On Sunday, April 22, I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Part 1 of my report on the festival Part 2 of my festival recap And now for Part 3: Fiction: Love, Actually My friend Bettie and I left the Anne Rice panel while Anne Rice was taking questions from the audience and(…)

REVIEW: The Edge of Night by Jill Sorenson

REVIEW: The Edge of Night by Jill Sorenson

Readers of this review should know that Jill Sorenson contributes f/f and f/f/m reviews to this blog on a once-a-month basis. Dear Ms. Sorenson, Contemporary romantic suspense is a genre I can enjoy a lot when a book is well-executed, but most of the time, I don't find myself drawn to reading books in this(…)

REVIEW: Stranded with Her Ex by Jill Sorenson

REVIEW: Stranded with Her Ex by Jill Sorenson

Dear Ms. Sorenson, It is with regret that I write this DNF review. The blurb of “Stranded with Her Ex” sounded so interesting. Two divorced wildlife researchers – a seal researcher and a shark expert, stuck together out on a remote island, find each other again. But as I’ve sometimes found, blurbs that caught my(…)

GIVEAWAY:  Bantam/Ballantine’s Fall Release Preview

GIVEAWAY: Bantam/Ballantine’s Fall Release Preview

Shauna Summers, Senior Editor   for Bantam/Ballantine, wanted to share with the Dear Author readers a bit about their fall line up. We thought it would be fun to give away a copy of the book that preceded the upcoming release. For every paper book giveaway, I’m going to giveaway an ecopy of the book via(…)

REVIEW: Crash Into Me by Jill Sorenson

REVIEW: Crash Into Me by Jill Sorenson

Dear Ms. Sorenson: I have read your category novels and thus I was excited to make the transition to full length mass market novels.    This book had very real characters and very steamy love scenes. I found the suspense to take kind of a back seat to the deception/romance story and that, at times,(…)

My First Sale by Jill Sorenson, A Tale of Two Sales

My First Sale by Jill Sorenson, A Tale of Two Sales

Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Jill Sorenson writes for both Silhouette Romantic Suspense as well as mass market originals with Dell.   Her first single title romantic suspense, Crash Into Me,   will be on retail shelves(…)