Letters of Opinion
ARCs, authors-behaving-badly, blogging, genre critique, harassment, Publishers-Behaving-Badly, Reader Reviews, stalking
For better or worse, I have always been a fighter. For the people and principles I care about most, I will go to the mat, and the more unfair a situation becomes, the more energized to set things right I… more
Essays
Author Reader Relationship, Reader Reviews
We here at Dear Author have always supported anonymity and pseudonymity. We have allowed people to use pennames and alias in the comments even when it meant they would be hurling insults at us, even when they engaged in sock puppetry… more
Publishing News
Harlequin, Reader Reviews
Target Pledges to Price Match Amazon Year-Round – Target is pledging to price match Amazon and other online retailers. The catch is that the product must be exact and because Target sells a lot of private label products, it’s not… more
Letters of Opinion
paid reviews, Reader Reviews
Despite the regularity and ubiquity with which free speech is invoked in online discussions, it is rarely relevant in the way it is used, as either sword or shield. In the broadest possible sense, our online discussions (at least in… more
Letters of Opinion
reader communities, Reader Opinions, Reader Reviews, reader-tools
As more authors bypass traditional publishing to bring their products directly to the consumer, the greater the risk is to the reader that she wastes her money (albeit a low amount of it) and her time (possibly more precious)… more
Poll
Literary Criticism, Reader Habits, Reader Reviews
Robin, who cheats on Dear Author by blogging at Access Romance and Romancing the Blog, posted her thoughts about spoilers in reviews. Robin is for it (and I am too) but we both work hard to have spoiler free reviews…. more