Apr 26 2010
Dear Ms. Ward, It may surprise you to know that I didn’t hop on the Black Dagger Brotherhood bandwagon until Lover Revealed was released. Before anyone has an aneurysm, know that I did pick up all the books in the series and read them in order. Like many other fans out there, I was inexplicably sucked into(…)
Apr 26 2010
Dear Ms. Ward, Since discovering the Black Dagger Brotherhood at the second book in the series, Lover Eternal, I have been addicted. The BDB guys are hot, sexy, powerful and all flawed in some horrific way that has provided plenty of angst and strife that each guy has worked to overcome with the help of(…)
Mar 1 2010
Romance gossip I picked up in New York (unattributed to protect the innocent). The next hot thing appears to be the straight contemporary patterned after the Virgin River series by Robyn Carr. Several houses are trying to capitalize on this through marketing and repackaging. Mariah Stewart of Ballantine and Toni Blake from Avon are examples(…)
Oct 5 2009
Dear Ms. Ward, I don’t even know where to begin. While it’s true I’m a fan of your Black Dagger Brotherhood series, I stopped making any claims about its purported quality many books back. Romance? Unlike most readers who thought the first books were romance, only for later ones to shift into the urban fantasy(…)
Jul 27 2009
More rumors abound about the Apple Tablet. The Financial Times is stating that it will be due out by Christmas (registration required). There is a supposed launch of a new iTouch complete with camera and microphone in October so it’s possible that the Apple Tablet will be announced at the same time. Red Sage author,(…)
May 6 2009
Dear Ms. Ward, I was a relative latecomer to your Black Dagger Brotherhood Series, joining it in progress at, I believe, book three (or was it four?). Anyway, I remember reading online discussions about the series well before starting the first book, mostly related to the unusual names of the heroes (debate, IIRC, raged about(…)
Apr 24 2009
You are Chris Brown to my Rihanna – it hurts but here I come again I keep saying that I am off the wagon, and Yet I read this book ‘Read’ is not correct More like ‘devoured it whole’ or ‘inhaled’ or ‘wolfed down’ This book’s not a fave But I liked it far better(…)
Feb 6 2009
Live under a rock? Jessica Bird is also penname JR Ward. Spike = hero. Ex-con gourmet chef hottie Not millionaire. Heroine is “Mad” No, really – that is her name. She is the rich one. Reverse HP theme? Maybe. But Mad comes off as Poor little rich girl Will they won’t they? Goes on a(…)
Jan 21 2009
Dear Ms. Bird, After eyeing it all year last year, I finally decided to sign up for Keishon’s TBR Challenge. I figured it would motivate me to dig up some of the older books that have piled up around my house which I have been ignoring in favor of the new and shiny. Keishon’s assignment(…)
Oct 9 2008
Last week, we saw some previews of the comic book that Dabel Brothers is doing of Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series. Only when people went to pre-order the comic book, the purchase link was elusive. Here are some details straight from the Briggs website: You can download a preview of the first graphic novel in(…)
Oct 7 2008
eSPECIALS FROM THREE OF PENGUIN GROUP S PARANORMAL FICTION STARS Works by J.R. Ward, Karen Chance, and Patricia Briggs Will be Available to Download New York, NY (October 7, 2008) In a continued effort to bring writers to readers in whatever format the reader prefers, Penguin Group (USA) announced today the release of three paranormal(…)
Jun 13 2008
I still remember, vividly, the first time I picked up a JR Ward book. It was in my mall Waldenbooks store. I was just browsing along the aisles when I saw this glossy red cover with a black dagger in the middle. The cover said that it was “A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.”(…)
Jun 2 2008
Dear Ms. Ward, It might be an understatement to say your previous novel, Lover Unbound, elicited some very passionate reactions from readers. I can’t say I disagree with those criticisms. Even though I ended up liking the book because it developed John Matthew’s storyline, the main romance drove me insane for so many reasons, some(…)
Sep 19 2007
Dear Ms. Ward: I’ve referred to you as romance crack before. Your books are addictive, like a pharmaceutical grade narcotic, that makes a reader hot for the next book before the current book is even concluded. Unfortunately, I think I got a bad batch and wonder what I should do about it. On the one(…)
Sep 18 2007
Some readers have argued in the comments at Smart Bitches that the romance genre definition does not include a happy ever after. I had a long and somewhat contentious debate with Robin over the definition of romance. Her argument is that the academic definition of the genre is that romance is a story that focuses(…)
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