Apr 8 2012
Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches had a post about Australian lingo and last year I asked Sarah Mayberry if she and her Down Under pals would be interested in writing a post about what it’s like writing for an international audience. Sarah spearheaded this effort and I am greatly appreciative. You can visit Sarah at [...]
Mar 8 2012
The last few days have been frustrating for dear author readers and the crew here at Dear Author and it is mostly my fault. For the past year, I have tried to manage a self hosting option but I don’t know a thing about Apache and shell access and what not. Every time we had [...]
Oct 26 2011
Tribute Books has announced that beginning in 2012 it will become solely an e-book publisher young adult titles. They are looking for authors who are ready have a book published to a royalty paying press and are offering a 50% off the net retail price in royalties. They want to work with 12 authors, publishing [...]
Aug 9 2011
PubIt! asked Dear Author to participate in their review day event on Facebook. PubIt! posted blog summaries on its wall and invited self published authors to make short pitches. Our blog summary was that we wanted unusual historicals and erotic romances and were looking to review books between 50,000 and 80,000 words. Of course, there [...]
Jul 25 2011
Apple instituted a new rule that was to go into effect last month which disallowed Apps to have a direct link to the retailers purchasing site unless the retailer offered the same products for sale inside the App and allowed Apple to get 30%. Under Agency pricing, of course, this meant that Kindle, BN, Kobo [...]
Jul 5 2011
Courtship is traditionally defined as the period of dating before marriage. One of the things I love about romance books is the courtship. The meet cute (or just the meet), the stirrings of new feelings, and prolonged tension between a couple as their desire for each other mounts are all elements that I love to [...]
Apr 2 2011
Who says an angel can't rock a broken wing. Yeah. That would have been her retort to her current and unbelievable predicament if she hadn't suppressed her sarcasm years ago and if she weren't scared for her life. Life? Pretty funny considering she'd already died. So, yeah, she was dead but she was also shaking [...]
Nov 30 2010
The Harlequin Historical Authors are doing an online Advent calendar, starting December 1st. Each day, readers can visit a new historical author and have a chance to win signed books, chocolate, and other goodies. All entries will then be gathered together and one grand prize winner on Dec. 23rd will receive a Kindle 3-G loaded [...]
Oct 7 2010
This is really a week’s worth of stuff in one post so excuse the length: Next week we are going to celebrate National Coming Out Day and the “It Get’s Better” movement started by Dan Savage: ***** With all the layoffs and downsizing, Borders has no need for the space its current headquarters offers. Thus [...]
Apr 13 2010
Gina Bernal, romance lover, Carina Press editor, former editor for Rhapsody Book Club, blogged about cliffhanger endings. They are a common literary mechanism dating as far back to the earliest days of printed mass fiction. The serial depended on it. (The first novel to appear in serial form was Tobias Smollett’s fourth novel, The Life [...]
Apr 6 2010
This past weekend, I was part of a small panel sponsored by International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) which was held during the Popular Culture Association conference in St. Louis. The panel that I sat on was about romances safe spaces. Dr. Pam Regis presented a paper based on the concept popularized [...]
Feb 3 2010
UPDATED TO ADD: Harlequin has priced all the Kimani titles at 40% this month. Commenter Dana points out Direct ebooks is selling all the romance titles at 25% off through February. All the ebooks on this site have no geographic limitations. Hachette has a few bundling deals (usually these can only be found at the [...]
Sep 14 2009
While not book related, it was an article that was too cool not to share. A couple of MIT students assembled a camera equipped with GPS that was sent into space, to an altitude of about 18 miles, where the camera took photos of space and the curvature of the earth and the appearance of [...]
Apr 28 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Dear Ms. Buonfiglio: This is not a traditional review, per se, but I could imagine no other appropriate way to respond to the public posting of your recent presentation at the Princeton Romance conference, especially since you seemed to make a fundamental distinction between your Romance B(u)y the Boook [...]
Apr 27 2009
This account of the Princeton Romance Conference, Love as the practice of freedom? which took place on April 23 and 24, 2009. This account is from reader, Karen W, who helps organize the fabulous Celebrate Romance seminar, wrote this up for another group and I asked if I could repost it. I’m sorry I missed [...]
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