Dec 19 2011
Dear Ms. Bonilla, If there’s one character type I love seeing, it’s assassins. Especially female assassins. I could probably stand to see less redheaded assassins though. Seriously, what is it with fantasy and redheaded assassins and/or redheaded women? Still, the promise of a female assassin was enough to lure me into picking up your debut.(…)
May 25 2011
Signet/NAL emailed me and wanted to offer up a spring preview of its April through June books and they offered to give away titles to our readership. We’ve had a number of giveaways (and I suspect more in the future) so we are planning to run these Sunday afternoon. Yay for free books. Update: Why(…)
Apr 6 2010
Dear Ms. Beverley, All right. Here we go with “The Secret Duke” the third book in this series set in mid eighteenth century England. As with the first two books, it involves hidden and/or secret identities and takes place partly on the road which allows the characters to let their hair down – so to(…)
Jun 12 2009
Dear Ms. Knight: The first book I read by you was Red Fire (which I thought I had written a review for but could not find in the archives). I enjoyed Red Fire and didn’t hesitate to pick up Red Kiss. The premise of the Gods of Midnight series is that on the last day(…)
Apr 20 2008
Late Friday, AP reporter, Hillel Italie reported that Signet/NAL has severed its relationship with Cassie Edwards. Since we made a bit deal, here on the blog, about how appalling Signet/NAL’s initial response was, I thought it would be fair to give over our Sunday to say how awesome I think its final response is. For(…)
Apr 19 2008
Sarah just sent me the link to the news release that Signet and Cassie Edwards are no longer in business together. “Signet has conducted an extensive review of all its Cassie Edwards novels and due to irreconcilable editorial differences, Ms. Edwards and Signet have mutually agreed to part ways,” the publisher said in a statement(…)
Jan 10 2008
Dear Mr. Shanks, CEO of Penguin, and Susan Peterson Kennedy, President of Penguin: I am writing to share with you my disilllusionment with your publishing house after the response you gave to the allegations of plagiarism against Signet author, Cassie Edwards. As a reader, when I buy a book, I assume that my money is(…)
Jan 9 2008
Edited to add my inquiry: Apparently some are taking umbrage that I posted the Signet response but not my own email inquiry. I will say that I had permission to post the Signet response but I don’t mind adding my inquiry: Dear Mr. [name redacted at the request of the responder]: I was writing to(…)
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