Misc

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for November 2010

Welcome to the November Promotional Thread for Authors. What's this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be(…)

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for October 2010

Welcome to the October Promotional Thread for Authors. What's this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be(…)

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for September 2010

Welcome to the September Promotional Thread for Authors. What's this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be(…)

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for August 2010

Welcome to the August Promotional Thread for Authors. What's this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be(…)

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for July 2010

Welcome to the July Promotional Thread for Authors. What's this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be(…)

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for June 2010

Welcome to the June Promotional Thread for Authors. What's this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be(…)

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for March 2010

Welcome to the March Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be(…)

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for February 2010

Welcome to the February Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be(…)

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for January 2010

Welcome to the January Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be(…)

Email Subscription

Did you subscribe by email and no longer get Dear Author in your inbox? That’s because our email subscription is powered by feedburner and when I deleted the feed to get rid of the google adsense ads, it affected the email subscribers. Sorry! You will need to resubscribe.   Use this form or the one in(…)

DeBeers Gives Back, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day

DeBeers settled the class action suit against it for a reported $295 million to be repaid to wholesalers, retailer and customers. If you bought a piece of diamond jewelry between January 1, 1994, and March 31, 2006, go fill out a claim form online. The amount of your refund depends upon how many people make(…)

Sticker Shock, Part One

The mantra going around last week amongst author blogs was “buy new”. At least one author says to readers Don’t gripe about how they aren’t publishing anything you like if you aren’t buying new books because you gave up your right to vote on what’s being published. Another author said The “swap readers” appeared, in(…)

Non Sequitur: Soccer and Johnny Depp

I was so conflicted over the video to post. Pirates of the Carribean comes out today and I am as a big a lover of Monsieur Depp as anyone, eyeliner, pouffy shirt, long fingernails, natty hair and all. But it is also the weekend of the World Cup Championship. So to be fair to both(…)

July Ebook Contest

Dear Readers and Authors: We often get offers of free books related to this contest but we decided that we would buy all the books we chose so we could remain objective. We have no problem in receiving books from publishers but at this time feel uncomfortable receiving books from authors for this CONTEST. (author(…)

Non Sequitur of the Week

Sometimes sequels are best left unwritten Send to Kindle