Apr 3 2010
Dear Ms. O’Reilly and Ms. Kenner: This one Blaze holds four very short stories which take place on April 1. While the authors take turns telling the slightly interwoven stories and their voices mesh well, O’Reilly’s Devon story was my favorite. Because the stories are so brief, there is very little time to explore true(…)
Aug 18 2009
Harlequin is going to allow us to purchase the vintage cover paper goods. Woot. I am ordering some of those matchbook notepads and some of those little paper booklets and postcards and WHERE IS MY COFFEE MUG??? Seriously, Harlequin heard our voices, you guys! It’s Western Week in blogland. Kristie J started it off. First(…)
Aug 6 2009
Dear Ms. O’Reilly, I love what you do with your heroes and heroines. They’re not always totally believable (I mean, stranger sex in a stretch Hummer?) but I like these people. I’d like to have dinner with them on a couples night out and just sit and talk for hours. I feel that comfortable with(…)
Aug 6 2009
Starting this month, all of the Dear Author recommended reads will be given a discount at digital bookseller, Books on Board. The discount page is here. (In the future, we’ll always try to post this on Tuesday so you can get the discount the day of the release). Written on Your Skin by Meredith Duran(…)
Aug 4 2009
Part one of our Save the Contemporary contest is completed. The following winners will receive a copy of each of the winning books, Hot Under Pressure by Kathleen O’Reilly (review by SB Sarah) and The Magnate’s Make Believe Mistress by Bronwyn Jameson (review by Jane): Kat Camilla Sally SandyW Ros Jenny Kim Keira Meghan B(…)
Aug 4 2009
It’s time for another Save the Contemporary campaign, with Dear Author, Smart Bitches, and prizes from Harlequin! This time, we’re featuring two books – yes, two. Some of the great contemporary stories are found in category romance, so we’ve picked two books that we both really loved. Hot Under Pressure by Kathleen O’Reilly (review by(…)
Dec 16 2008
Jayne, one of the founding members of Dear Author, is our resident explorer. She goes out and finds the most unusual settings, the most unknown authors, in all different genres, and brings them to our attention. She’s also one of my dearest reading friends. Without her, this blog probably would have died a slow and(…)
Oct 27 2008
Over at the Smart Bitches website, there is a multi part post featuring a chapter by chapter redux of Kathleen O’Reilly’s Harlequin Blaze, Sex, Straight Up, by Doc Turtle. Doc Turtle was challenged to read a category by SB Sarah after Doc Turtle made some snide comments about Harlequin books. Sex Straight Up was a(…)
Sep 1 2008
Angelo’s Captive Virgin by India Grey. I know that some well known authors like Grey’s voice but the doormat to asshole ratio is very high in this book, leaving me dissatisfied. Anna, or Lady Roseanna Delafield, is forced to sell her family estate. The family has fallen on hard times and while her only good(…)
May 2 2008
Okay, the random winners are 11 AB 16 Staci McClellan 27 Lam Email me Jayne @ dearauthor.com with your snail mail addresses. It will probably be mid next week when I get them mailed out. Send to Kindle
Mar 31 2008
Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews. Both Jane and Jia would recommend this sophomore effort by newcomer, Ilona Andrews. The “Magic” series features a smart mouthed, sword wielding Kate Daniels who helps to enforce the law in an alternate universe Atlanta. For the crossover genre reader (i.e., the romance reader that likes to cross the genre(…)
Mar 24 2008
Dear Mrs. O’Reilly, How do you do it? How do you make accountants sexy? No offense to any number crunchers out there, especially at this time of year, but the profession isn’t up there on the sexy-job-o-meter. Daniel’s brothers, the lawyer and the bartender, have jobs that could be considered babe-magnets but it takes a(…)
Mar 5 2008
Dear Ms. O’Reilly, As with the first book of your last trilogy, this one is a winner for me. Straight from the beginning and all the way through. I enjoyed all the characters in this book, the plot, the setting…in fact everything. At first I was a little leery about the setting. I mean, an(…)
Mar 3 2008
Madhouse by Rob Thurman is recommended by Jia. (Thurman is a woman if that matters to you and I have to admit I have a pro-female author bias so I thought I would throw that out there). Madhouse is a continuation of a series about two brothers which started with Nightlife and its sequel, Moonshine.(…)
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