Letters of OpinionARCs / authors-behaving-badly / blogging / genre critique / harassment / Publishers-Behaving-Badly / Reader Reviews / stalking181 Comments
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 seem to become. I’m one of those cynical idealists who ... more >
EssaysAuthor Reader Relationship / Reader Reviews188 Comments
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 (by changing their alias but posting from the same IP ... more >
Publishing NewsHarlequin / Reader Reviews9 Comments
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 likely to eat into Target’s profit margin. Plus, Mulpuru pointed ... more >
Letters of Opinionpaid reviews / Reader Reviews73 Comments
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 the United States) are reflective of the “marketplace of ideas” ... more >
Letters of Opinionreader communities / Reader Opinions / Reader Reviews / reader-tools74 Comments
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) on a sub standard product. The benefit of a book ... more >
PollLiterary Criticism / Reader Habits / Reader Reviews58 Comments
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. It’s often quite hard, particularly when an element of the ... more >