Dec 6 2009
We will be posting our Top 10 of 2009 this entire week. Today’s list is from Dr. Sarah Frantz aka Joan. The list is unranked. You can find more of her reviews here. Alex Beecroft, False Colors Alex Beecroft, “Hidden Isle” in Hidden Conflict anthology James Buchanan, Hard Fall Victoria Dahl, The Wicked West Jane Davitt and Alexa(…)
Apr 20 2009
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Today’s first sale story comes from well known bloggers, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan. Their nonfiction, women’s studies, literary criticism, comedy, technical manual, work of art can be found in(…)
Apr 16 2009
What can I say that Has not already been said By Joan’s fab review? Not a non-fic fan Was not expecting to like As much as I did For me, the best joke? The list of eye-colors for Building a hero Best, that is, until I saw the "heroines list’ Then I wept laughter But-then(…)
Apr 14 2009
Dear Ms. Wendell and Ms. Tan. I spent Wednesday through Saturday last week at the Popular Culture Association Conference in New Orleans attending all the Romance Area panels. There were papers about domesticity as it constructs Eve’s character in JD Robb’s novels, and the moral construction of Sookie Stackhouse and the vampires she interacts with(…)
Apr 14 2009
For twenty four hours, BooksonBoard will offer Beyond Heaving Bosoms for 25% off beginning on April 14 10am cst to April 15 10am cst. Along with 20% off list price all titles by these authors whose books are mentioned in the book: Stephanie Laurens JD Robb/ Nora Roberts Jude Deveraux Kelley Armstrong Patricia Briggs The(…)
Mar 23 2009
Mariah Jovan and David Nygren interview Sarah Wendell about writers and money. Twitter is the new fad amongst everyone and their cousin including John Mayer. Apparently as a result of John Mayer spending too much time twittering, Jennifer Aniston is moving on. (shameless gossip piece tangentially related to writing and publishing because the twitterati is(…)
Feb 13 2009
Have nothing better to do on a Friday night? (I’m in the middle of a snowstorm). If so, why not take a gander at the SmartBitches Videomo contest? All the videos are here. The contest was to make the best promo video for the Smart Bitch book, Beyond Heaving Bosoms. Send to Kindle
Feb 6 2009
Hello, Dear Author readers! I don’t know how much you know about me, Candy, Jane, and the other women who run Smart Bitches and Dear Author, but we are some busy, busy women. Jane and I along with Dr. Sarah and many others are parents with full time jobs outside the home, and in between(…)
Jan 20 2009
I have to apologize for the lack of “industry news” or late night links of love but I have been glued to the television at various friends’ homes celebrating the events of the week. I’m getting back into the groove of things tonight as I am finally home and watching CNN. Bookstream aspired to provide(…)
Dec 30 2008
Sarahand I have kicked this idea around for a while but didn’t do anything about it until our fairy godmother, Morgan from Miss Media Productions came along and waved her special wand and made it happen. This is our first podcast. I’m driving, Sarah is too close to the phone, and we generally don’t know(…)
Dec 13 2008
Update: We finished the liveblog. Visit SmartBitches for the full transcript. The recap of this novella would be as follows: Smart heroine but a hero who was a jerk and wasn’t very effectively redeemed. Author tried to stick too many plot twists in the 15K length and it made the HEA very forced. I would(…)
Jan 16 2008
Want to give a show of support outside making a comment? If you’ve read the Newsweek report by Paul Tolme, the ferrets whose “closest relations are European ferrets and Siberian polecats” are an endangered species. Nora Roberts and the Smart Bitches have put together a wonderful sort of “pay it forward” campaign. If you give(…)
Jan 9 2008
AP writer Hillel Italie obtain a statement and response from Cassie Edwards on the plagiarism charges. “When you write historical romances, you’re not asked to do that,” Cassie Edwards told The Associated Press, speaking earlier this week from her home in Mattoon, Ill. Edwards husband then chimed in with this defense: “She doesn’t lift passages,”(…)
Sep 4 2007
Smart Bitches and Dear Author has seen it share of fearsome comment debates. Some of the commenting debates are prompted by the blog posts and some by the commenters themselves. We took a look at our positions on moderating blog comments. We would love to hear what commenters think on this issue. Sarah: We’d talked(…)
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