Apr 27 2010
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Author Shannon Stacey and I were tweeting about a particular book that I liked and recommended: Fiona Harper’s Housekeeper’s Happy Ever After. It is a Harlequin Romance and those generally are light on the sensuality and heavy on the female point of view. It’s rare in either a Harlequin(…)
Apr 25 2010
The following random winners (selected by random.org) are the winners of the $125 Rom Con Conference fee. If one of you decide you don’t want to attend, please notify us immediately so that we can allow another reader to attend the conference. The conference organizers will contact you via the email you left when you(…)
Apr 20 2010
see more Lolcats and funny pictures [poll id="218"] I’m preparing a post about the major publisher buying habits as it relates to paranormal romance, UF, and YA books in those sub genres. My friend, who has been tabulating the data, wondered whether the increase in YA books was affecting the adult market. I asked this(…)
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Mar 26 2010
My name is Samantha Bumbico, and I would like to introduce myself to the Dear Author Community. I've been reading romance novels for over 20 years. My first foray into the Happily Ever After was Silver Angel by Johanna Lindsey. Since then I have read the many sub-genres of Romance, everything and anything from Sci-fi,(…)
Mar 7 2010
One of the things we learned from our survey was that readers were hungry to talk to publishers. But how would you want to engage publishers? On a blog post? On a livechat? A skype conference? What part of “publishers” would you want represented? The CEO? The editors? The authors? What would you ask them?(…)
Mar 2 2010
Value, value, value. That seems to have become one of those buzzwords invoked in defense of corporate publishing's status quo. But what is value, exactly? Of the "agency model," Hatchette CEO David Young has said, "It allows Hachette to make pricing decisions that are rational and reflect the value of our authors' works." Harper Collins(…)
Mar 1 2010
Romance gossip I picked up in New York (unattributed to protect the innocent). The next hot thing appears to be the straight contemporary patterned after the Virgin River series by Robyn Carr. Several houses are trying to capitalize on this through marketing and repackaging. Mariah Stewart of Ballantine and Toni Blake from Avon are examples(…)
Feb 28 2010
First and most importantly, the random winner to the survey was survey no. 1768 who owns a Kindle who made this comment about ebooks and publishers: I’ve been reading ebooks for a long time and the main things I like are convenience of taking many away from home to read easily and the space saving(…)
Feb 19 2010
More plagiarism from authors and journalists. NY Times has another reporter who has admitted to lifting text from other journalists, specifically from the Wall Street Journal. He apologized and said he thought it was his own material. Slate made up its own list of excuses by plagiarists. But apologies might be a thing of the(…)
Feb 16 2010
This is a quite hilarious ad by Verizon mocking AT&T’s pathetic coverage (I am an AT&T customer via my move to the iPhone). Watch until the end. Guardian asks whether crowdsourcing author advances is legitimate. Deanna Zandt wanted to write a book on using social networking for social change and action, specializing in often marginalised(…)
Feb 2 2010
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Straight off the top of your head, do you think that authors have any ethical or moral responsibilities beyond the book? I'm guessing that the vast majority of you answered this question the same way I did for a long time, with a fully articulated, deeply resounding NO. As(…)
Jan 5 2010
2010 came upon me so fast that I feel like I have whiplash. I feel like I barely touched the tip of my to be read pile which grows exponentially every month as I receive more books to review and I buy even more books for my ever expanding digital library. For some reason, despite(…)
Dec 17 2009
MediaBistro held an ebook summit for the past few days and there were some interesting tidbits released. One of the overriding themes of the summit was that the $9.99 price point was not sustainable. One panel suggested that ads were the best possible way for publishers of content (magazines and books) to offer a low(…)
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