Rita-Winner

Congratulations Thread for RITA and GoldenHeart Nominees

In the paranormal category:    The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter The Healer by Sharon Sala Mine to Possess Nalini Singh   The Undead Next Door  by Kerrelyn Sparks Thunder Moon  by Lori Handeland Dragon Wytch  by Yasmine Galenorn Seducing Mr. Darcy  by Gwen Cready Moonstruck  by Susan Grant In the NWRE:   Tribute  by Nora Roberts Where Serpents Sleep  by C.S. Harris The(…)

RITA Reader Ballot

RITA Reader Ballot

Do you remember that we are having a RITA related contest? Well, we are. If you fill out a ballot with your guesses as to who will win the RITA, you will be entered in our contest. The winner of the contest (US Residents only because of mailing costs) will recieve a bag of books(…)

Interim RITA Reader Ballot Winner ** Updated **

The RITA finalists were announced last month. We wanted to devise a contest that would allow readers to feel more connected to the RITA Award which is considered by romance authors to be the Oscar of the romance genre. Any reader can fill out a ballot and submit their guesses for who will be announced(…)

Excuse Our (my) Mess

So you may have noticed that the blog and the forum were down at various times since Friday. I moved DearAuthor from Bluehost to Media Temple and due to my inexperience, it was kind of a shaky move. But everything seems to be working, including our controversial pink theme (which will be changing one of(…)

Wherein Jane Is An Ass Again

I laughed a little uncomfortably when I wrote up the The Leopard Prince review. At the end of the story, Georgina loses all her good sense and intelligence, flies off the handle and makes some poor decisions. Much like me. (I liked the book despite that). When I was writing last Sunday’s article about the(…)

When Love Isn’t Enough

When Love Isn’t Enough

If you were expecting an ebook weekly article, come back next Sunday. We are taking a little detour today. Last week Barbara Samuel put up a plea at Romancing the Blog for Readers to pay more attention to the RITAs. She titled her post “Why Readers Should Care About the RITA Awards.” I commented that(…)

Tuesday: The Holy Day of Publishing and How It Forms Reader Expectations

I was looking at the March slate of releases a couple months back. There were so many awesome March releases that we could barely fit all the reviews in the last week of February and the first couple weeks of March so that the reviews were timely. It got me to thinking about Tuesday, the(…)

REVIEW: I’m Watching You by Karen Rose

Dear Ms. Rose: Geez, I must have my head in the sand/dirt/whatever to have only just now started reading you. Apparently you won the 2005 RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense. Having read this book, I can see why. This is a taut, on the edge of your seat kind of suspense with a really(…)