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Red Rose Publishing is having some issues conducting its regular business activities. Authors are reportedly not getting their work published within a specified time.  If rights are requested to be reverted because of this breach, the publisher is reportedly sending the authors bills for cover art and editing for those books. Notices of editors and [...]

M.K. Hobson calls it “bustlepunk”: a nineteenth century America in which military warlocks serve in President Grant’s Secret Service, zombies labor in gold mines, and spells can be mail-ordered from the magical equivalent of Sears & Roebuck.  That mass-produced magic is about to put hometown witch Emily Edwards out of business, however, and a lavender-laced [...]

Dear. Ms. Duncan, Living in the South, I keep a close eye on the weather during hurricane season. Like right now with Hurricane Earl twitching around out there. Having lived through hurricane damage to my house, I will never take an evacuation order lightly. Which is what caught my eye about the blurb for “The [...]

Sony quietly launched its new ereaders with a strategy designed to capture a more global market.  The three models have been revamped to all feature touch screens.  The readers have the same Pearl Ink screen as the Kindle which means better, clearer, crisper text.  They all have touch screens which allows on notetaking on the [...]

It’s time for the Fall 2010 edition of the Berkley/Jove giveaway, and we have a lot of terrific titles coming up, a few of which will be highlighted below. As always, for more information and a complete listing of books each month, please visit www.berkleyjoveauthors.com. And huge thanks to Jane and Dear Author for hosting [...]

Dear Ms. Maynard: In the pantheon of overused tropes, the secret baby one is probably my least favorite. I wonder if my sensitivity to this has grown since I’ve been a parent myself or whether repeated exposure to this theme has just plain tired me out. But it isn’t just the secret baby trope that [...]

Dear Ms. Gunning, You are getting quite the reputation for writing detailed, women-centric books about Colonial life in America. “The Rebellion of Jane Clarke” is the third book which centers on the people of the village of Satucket on the island of Cape Cod and it takes us ever closer to the point where Britain [...]

When the latest fracas over the New York Times Book Review’s privileged and privileging coverage of “white guys living in Brooklyn” erupted, I reflexively rolled my eyes and sighed. Oh, great, I thought, another go-round in the perpetual media battle between so-called commercial and so-called literary fiction, and one that promises, once again, to regard [...]

This is the full press release (something I don’t ordinarily post) but given the interest, I figured the whole thing would be useful: Sourcebooks Casablanca launched its first romance fiction list in fall 2007, quickly becoming a top 10 publisher in the genre.  In less than 3 years, the imprint now publishes 5 to 8 [...]

Dear Ms. Miller, Being a part of what has become known as ‘The Penguin Five’ must build a lot of pressure on you.  The Penguin Five are being shopped as some of the best releases to come from Penguin’s various imprints in the next five months, and your book is the leader of the pack.  [...]