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May 31 2009
The Orbit $1 special for June is Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan, original retail price $10.99. Warner Forever is launching its special $1.99 Sizzling Summer deals. The following titles are available in June for $1.99 A Hint of Wicked by Jennifer Haymore (a new release) My Wicked Enemy by Carolyn Jewel (this is a [...]
By Jane • Ebooks • 15 • Tags: Hachette/Grand Central, promotions, Warner Books
May 31 2009
For the orphans of BEA, there has been great internet coverage from established publications and from the new media (aka bloggers!). Smart Bitch Sarah attended the Harlequn Art Show. Harlequin had awesome swag including vintage covers on matchbook type notepads. She (and Harlequin) are giving away two bags full of this awesome swag. Publishers Weekly [...]
By Jane • Link Round Up • 1 • Tags: BEA, BEA09, Book-Expo-America
May 31 2009
It’s hard for me to tell exactly how many of the readers of Dear Author are from outside North America, but it is not insignificant despite the fact there is no localization of the blog. In other words, we are an English blog that can be run through a translator but is not translated directly. [...]
By Jane • Ebooks, Letters of Opinion • 54 • Tags: book contracts, digital publishing, Ebooks, geographic territories, translation rights
May 30 2009
Dear Ms. Michaels: Angela James made me buy this book so blame her for the review. We were chatting on Twitter the other night about twincest, incest, groupcest, and the like. Within the menage ouvre, there does seem to be an awful lot of brothers who enjoy sharing women. In at least one review of [...]
By Jane • Book Reviews, C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews • 8 • Tags: Loose-Id, Trista Ann Michaels
May 30 2009
The Annual Brenda Novak Auction ends tomorrow and with it the chance to advertise on Dear Author, an opportunity that is not offered to individual authors or publishers. The auction is here. The ad will appear on any month you desire in the sidebar to the right. Dear Author is one of the top ranked [...]
By Jane • Book Reviews • 3 • Tags: About-Us, Brenda Novak Auction
May 30 2009
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** The assassin began a silent countdown. Two hundred yards away, looking through the rifle’s scope, made the mark seem [...]
By Jane • First Page • 26 • Tags: first page, Literary-Critique
May 29 2009
Earlier this week, we posted an author online don’t list and to be balanced, Maili suggested we do a reader/reviewer online don’t list. Brilliant idea, I said. *** Taste is subjective. When someone criticizes or slates one of your favorite books, they aren’t criticizing you or your taste, they are making their opinion heard. Don’t ever [...]
By Jane • Letters of Opinion • 47 • Tags: Author Reader Relationship, Ethics in Reviewing, Literary-Critique, Reader Opinions, Reviewing
May 29 2009
Yes, I am looking at my feed this morning. Gizmodo has a video of another impending eink device, this time from Plastic Logic. I suspect that Plastic Logic is the hardware manufacturer behind the reader coming from Barnes and Noble. The thing that might set this device apart is the ability to doodle on the [...]
By Jane • Publishing News • 3
May 29 2009
Gizmodo takes a look at the Pixel Qi news of its impending fall 2009 release of a e paper like lcd screen. Not only is it in color, but lcd screens are much cheaper than the current eink technology from Vizplex. Maybe that $100 color eink screen isn’t too far off. 2010 would be my [...]
By Jane • Publishing News • 2
May 29 2009
This article by James Love is worth a read. I am attending a meeting in Geneva of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This evening the United States government, in combination with other high income countries in “Group B” is seeking to block an agreement to discuss a treaty for persons who are blind or [...]
By Jane • Publishing News • 3