Jan 9 2012
Dear Ms. Hancock, Your 88 page post-apocalyptic romance novella, Ghost in the Machine, published by Samhain, was unlike any other romance I’ve read before. As I was reading it, I kept thinking of movies like the original “Terminator” and “28 Days Later” – dark yet ultimately uplifting stories about human beings struggling to survive in [...]
Nov 15 2011
Dear Ms. Barry: In my hunt for more shifter books, I came across your November title. I had heard good things about you in the past. Your book, Body Master, won the 2011 Winner of RomCon’s 2011 Reader’s Crown for Best Sci-Fi, Futuristic or Time Travel. Reader’s Crown was a reader judged contest and I [...]
Jun 29 2011
This week Romance Writers of America hands out the RITAs, its highest awards in eleven romance sub-genres, plus a special category for debut authors. As an occasional contributor to Dear Author, I’m delighted to host again the nominees for Best First Book as part of the Intro Interview series. And we’re giving away books! For [...]
Apr 14 2011
Dear Ms. Archer, My track record with space sci-fi romance (SSFR) has been terrible of late. There are moments when I wonder why I continually punish myself with middling (at best) SSFR when there is so much incredible romance reading available out there. But I do it because I’m hunting for that perfect mix of [...]
Mar 30 2011
Dear Ms. Creasy This is the sequel to Song of Scarabaeus and I definitely think that readers should read Song first. Children starts where the cliffhanger ending of Song stopped: our bio tech heroine, Edie Sha'nim, in desperate need of neuroxin, a toxic drug that her half Talasese heritage needs to stay alive. If Edie [...]
May 5 2010
Dear Ms. Granger, Let’s face it: I love romance in space, having to do with space, or having the element of the alien (and I don’t mean Sigourney Weaver Alien). Nowadays it seems particularly hard to get past all of the vamps and shifters and move off (or into the future/alternate past/Star Wars) of this [...]
Apr 23 2010
Heather Massey runs the very popular, The Galaxy Express. She put together a top ten list which is a cross section of the type of stories that readers can discover in science fiction romance. Grimspace (Sirantha Jax, Book 1) by Ann Aguirre Alpha (Sunrise Alley) by Catherine Asaro Unmasked (Futuristic Romance) by C.J. Barry Beyond [...]
Sep 14 2009
While not book related, it was an article that was too cool not to share. A couple of MIT students assembled a camera equipped with GPS that was sent into space, to an altitude of about 18 miles, where the camera took photos of space and the curvature of the earth and the appearance of [...]
Aug 13 2009
Dear Ms. Granger: I didn’t have Beyond the Rain as a recommended read this month just becauseit was a science fiction romance but it did play a part. There are few of these types of books published within the genre. You did a great job of creating not just one different culture but two and [...]
Dec 23 2008
The following is a guest op ed from Heather Massey of the fabulous Galaxy Express. Heather’s blog is an example of a lover of books filling a need within the book community. There are science fiction blogs and fantasy sites but Heather’s blog is devoted to talking about science ficiton and fantasy with an [...]
Dec 12 2008
Dear Ms. Rossetti, I picked up this book on the strength of a cover quote from Shana Abe and the vague idea that said quote meant that The Flame and the Shadow would bear some resemblance to Abe’s Drakon series, which I’m quite fond of. About one-third of the way through, I was ruing my [...]
Sep 5 2008
Dear Ms. Aguirre: To say I was eager to get my hands on a copy of Wanderlust would be a complete understatement. I loved Grimspace. In fact, my only real complaint was that I wanted more. I wanted more Jax, more March, and more about how the big revelation regarding the Corporation would affect them [...]
Sep 4 2008
As if men don't have enough excuse for infidelity, science is providing yet another. According to researches at the Karolinksa Institute in Sweden, there is a gene allele which can affect the production of a hormone called vasopressin. Vasopressin is known to positively influence monogamy. Men with more than two of the gene allele 334 [...]
Aug 25 2008
Dear Ms. Meyer, While I didn’t think it was perfect, I did enjoy your first young adult novel, Twilight. So when my fellow blogger Jia was unable to get too far into The Host, a genre-bending speculative romantic thriller and your first book for adults, I agreed to give it a try. The premise of [...]
Jul 15 2008
Dear Readers, Since this review covers my responses to nine short stories and two novellas, I’ve decided that for the sake of clarity, it would be simper to address this letter to you rather than to eleven authors. Tangle XY is an anthology featuring a variety of same-sex love stories. All the romances here have [...]
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