Mar 19 2011
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. *** Trumbull left his brothers house without a backward glance. The past month had sent his life into a spiral [...]
Mar 15 2011
I've been putting off writing this post for months! Everyone with an opinion has already weighed in, and we're all sick to death of the subject, but I said I would tackle it so here I am. A day late and a dollar short, as usual. The first thing I want to say is that [...]
Mar 12 2011
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. *** Stakkholtsgja, Iceland 1705 Alarr gazed down the precipice. He, an assassin's assassin, hunted among the sharp shadows cast by [...]
Mar 5 2011
I’ve been reading some posts about this YAMafia theory running around the internet. Regular readers of Dear Author should be very familiar with this given the past history in romance. It’s almost a relief to see the “be nice” mantra being preached outside of romance. Huzzah, all fandoms are dysfunctional. Essentially the theory is that [...]
Mar 5 2011
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. *** This felt like the end of the earth, but Duncan Sinclair had stopped being surprised by how many ends [...]
Feb 26 2011
"I've crunched the numbers. Double, triple crunched and without a major influx of capital, you're going to lose the company." Douglas Hamilton exhaled deeply. It wasn't a surprise, but until he had heard his accountant, Adam Richards, articulate his company's verdict, there had still been hope. "I'm sorry Douglas," Adam offered. "The recession has hit [...]
Feb 19 2011
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page to be read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** "I bet they made love in here. They'd finish dessert and he'd lift her up on the [...]
Feb 12 2011
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. *** Jessica Marie Havemeyer knew when to let the curtain fall. And at two in the morning, thirty-five minutes after [...]
Feb 5 2011
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'd been a salesman for Live Well for close to a year when I started hearing rumors. After collecting [...]
Jan 29 2011
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. *** "Don't move your lips when you talk," her sister said from under the blanket in the back seat. "They [...]
Jan 26 2011
I thought today was Thursday and tomorrow was Friday. I guess I am anxious for the weekend. The big news in publishing right now is the information coming from Digital Book World. Digital Book World is a new publishing conference put on by publishing professionals for publishing professionals. I did not attend but have been [...]
Jan 25 2011
Last summer, I ran a poll about the brother in law trope, one that I like a lot. Many readers were turned off by this trope because, for them, it rang a little too much of incest for them. This got me thinking about incest in romance and what other tropes have that feel to [...]
Jan 22 2011
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. *** David watched his wife and daughter laughing and squabbling affectionately in the cockpit and suddenly it all came back to [...]
Jan 15 2011
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'm quitting." Mr. Thompson gaped at me, his crooked glasses sliding down his beaked nose ever so slightly. He [...]
Jan 8 2011
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. **** It was summer in D.C., and even though it was close to midnight, the air was heavy with heat [...]
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