Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

I know. Not book related. I can’t even make it so, but I am slavishly devoted to this show so I had to post. According WWD, Tim Gunn is to be the Chief Creative Officer at Liz Claiborne but will remain on Project Runway. Long live Tim Gunn.
Via Project Runway.

My Costco Connection came today and the featured author (also known as “Pennie’s pick” after Costco Book Buyer, Pennie Clark Ianniciello), is Diana Norman. Her book, Mistress of the Art of Death, is the pick of the month which, I would guess, would almost guarantee Ms. Norman some kind of bestseller status. [...]

Dear Ms. DeLeon:
This is a book I bought based on Word o’ Mouth. It was billed as fast paced, laugh out loud, police procedure book. It was fast paced and a police procedure book but I wasn’t really sold on the “laugh out loud” part. Humor is a subjective thing. Fortunately, the [...]

I don’t know why the idea of seeing Harry Potter’s dongle bothers me, but it does. I must be a prude. Jane, the PRUDE.

Freya’s Bower is releasing an upcoming charity anthology, DREAMS & DESIRES. The purpose of this anthology is to raise awareness about domestic violence.
All net proceeds will go to a battered-women’s shelter. Nineteen romance, paranormal and erotica authors have volunteered stories for this anthology. For more information, visit the Freya’s Bower website.

Keishon posted that last night Sidney Sheldon passed on. Mr. Sheldon was a triple threat: a Broadway playwright, a TV and movie screenwriter and a best selling novelist. He worked on I Dream of Jeanie and The Patty Duke Show but didn’t really become a household name until his breakout novels such as [...]

That she writes under pen name Ariana Franklin? If you can’t wait for a new Diana Norman book, you may want to try to trample other Diana Norman fans to the store (try not to hurt Jayne though because we need her here), and pick up City of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense. [...]