Literary Criticism

Monday Midday Links: Apple Flexes Its App Store Muscle

Monday Midday Links: Apple Flexes Its App Store Muscle

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(…)

First Page: Book of Magical Wars: Tale one, The Cave

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Water dripped from the stalactites above the fire pit and added a mist to the smoky haze in the cave.(…)

First Page: Unnamed Fantasy

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** I am in Hell! Literally. I am a spirit, a ghost, drifting endlessly, aimlessly, from one end of Hades(…)

First Page: The Demon Hour

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Some women will say that time metaphorically stands still when the man of their dreams gets down on bended(…)

Is Courtship Passe in Romance?

Is Courtship Passe in Romance?

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(…)

First Page: Unnamed Regency Historical

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Robert did not wake.  Rather, he became aware he no longer slept.  Moreover, he was not alone.  The softness of a woman’s(…)

First Page: The Feral Queen, genre Science Fiction

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** I had my leather armor on, buckling the straps before I realized I had decided to go outside. Part(…)

First Page: RESCUED BY A ROGUE paranormal romance

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** RESCUED BY A ROGUE Chapter 1 Maven cursed her sister for the thousandth time. With plenty of alone time(…)

First Page: Cat in the Dark, futuristic/paranormal (and multicultural)

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** A trunk full of contraband, a deadline, and the damn car won’t start. Vrzala grits his teeth and focuses(…)

First Page: Heirs of the Collective, Unnamed women’s fiction with a paranormal layer

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** “Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.” Philippians 3:13 Chapter One(…)

First Page: Unnamed Steampunk

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Friday before Mardi Gras, 1849 Galveston Island, Province of Texas, Viceroyalty of New Spain   “Bloody cold up here,”(…)

First Page: Where the Boys Are (Futuristic Romance)

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Chapter One Conan’s waiting for me when I get home. Like always. He opens the door, takes my briefcase,(…)

First Page: Breath and Blood

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** The air outside the club was just turning frosty, crisp and cool, heady with the scent of late fall.(…)

First Page: Untitled Science Fiction

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** She’s crashing! I was vaguely aware of the commotion around me, people shouting and monitors beeping and rain pelting(…)

First Page: Unnamed Urban Fantasy

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** The spring sky was the color of pumpkin. Raw and stretched across the horizon, torn into bits and pieces(…)