May 10 2012
On Sunday, April 22, I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Part 1 of my report on the festival Part 2 of my festival recap And now for Part 3: Fiction: Love, Actually My friend Bettie and I left the Anne Rice panel while Anne Rice was taking questions from the audience and [...]
Dec 22 2011
Dear Ms. Dare, In the usual way of things, I am not a fan of the novella. Neither am I quite keen on the short story. I find both lacking in character, particularly in romance where that is the key to any relationship development. Neither the novella nor the short story offers an adequate length [...]
Aug 30 2011
Dear Ms. Dare: You are well known for your cute toy filled book trailers (Stud Club Trilogy / Maya Banks’ Highlander Trilogy) and I was tempted to do a lego review for this book. After all, I have a castle. I bought some canons. I have minifigs where the girl’s boobs look like they are busting out [...]
Aug 10 2011
First up is this trailer of Maya Banks’ Highlander series. Men in Kilts. It’s must watch YouTube. (It is also part of the auction that Maya Banks won in support of our blogger friend, Fatin, when she lost her husband in a senseless shooting. Tessa Dare put it together and it features, amongst other things, [...]
Jun 1 2010
Dear Ms. Dare, Dear Ms. Dare, I've heard good things about you for the last year, ever since your debut The Goddess of the Hunt appeared as the beginning of three inter-connected novels. I've been meaning to read something of yours for quite sometime, in the same way I've been meaning to clean out my [...]
Oct 13 2009
In reading reviews of Tessa Dare’s book, Goddess of the Hunt, and of Louisa Edwards‘, Can’t Stand the Heat, I noticed there were often comments about the female protagonists, or heroines, of the stories as not being very likeable. I know I struggled with Miranda, the heroine in Can’t Stand the Heat. I thought I [...]
Sep 3 2009
To give equal time to the women, I present the heroine poll. Do you like your heroines perfect or flawed, physically? Personally, I like both but if I had to choose (and I am making you if you want to vote) for the physically flawed heroine because perfection can be boring. Really beautiful heroines have [...]
Sep 1 2009
Dear Author Recommended Reads for September are on sale at Books on Board for 20% off the list price (no coupon needed). Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs, recommended by Janine and Jane Pleasure and Purpose by Megan Hart, recommended by Janine How to Woo a Spinster by Kasey Michaels, recommended by Jayne Hunt her Down [...]
Aug 28 2009
Dear Ms. Dare: This is book two in your loosely connected trilogy that is being released Aug, Sept and October. Surrender of a Siren follows the character Sophia as she runs away from home and obligation to experience “adventure.” Sophia is a wealthy young woman who has been urged by her family to marry a [...]
Aug 18 2009
Shauna Summers, Senior Editor for Bantam/Ballantine, wanted to share with the Dear Author readers a bit about their fall line up. We thought it would be fun to give away a copy of the book that preceded the upcoming release. For every paper book giveaway, I’m going to giveaway an ecopy of the book via [...]
Aug 6 2009
Starting this month, all of the Dear Author recommended reads will be given a discount at digital bookseller, Books on Board. The discount page is here. (In the future, we’ll always try to post this on Tuesday so you can get the discount the day of the release). Written on Your Skin by Meredith Duran [...]
Jul 28 2009
Dear Ms. Dare: I would not have read this book had it not been for the April Fool’s Day joke that led to my getting a copy of Legend of a Werestag in my inbox. Legend of a Werestag is a novella you published through Samhain and your writing in that novella made me hungry [...]
May 13 2009
The following are the three winners of the Goddess of the Hunt. These are the last three ARCs that Tessa has. (I would throw my copy in if I had one!) Babs Kate K Lorraine The following are the twelve winners of the digital format Legend of a Werestag. I threw in a couple of copies [...]
May 12 2009
Update: I’ve closed the comments and will announce the winners later today. Thanks everyone. It was fun to read the comments. Dear Ms. Dare: Thank you for sending me Legend of the Werestag. I’ll confess that when I first heard of it I thought it was a paranormal regarding shapeshifting animals and I wasn’t convinced [...]
Oct 12 2009
REVIEW: A Lady of Persuasion by Tessa Dare
Dear Ms. Dare: A Lady of Persuasion brings home all the characters in the previous two books in the trilogy as the previous protagonists play a part in the romance of Sir Tobias Aldrige and Bel Grayson. Sir Tobias was jilted at the end of book one, Goddess of the Hunt by Sophia, the heroine [...]
By Jane • B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Book Reviews • 6 • Tags: interracial-romance, rake, reformer, social-commentary, Tessa Dare• Author: Tessa Dare