First up is the Apple iPhone issue.
On Thursday, Apple released an iPhone firmware update that adds several functions incluing TV out functionality (meaning you can hook up the iPhone to the TV and watch the video iPhone content on the TV) and the ability to buy music over a wifi connection from [...]

Dear Ms. Joyce:
This is only the second book of yours that I have read, so I am still basically a novice regarding your style and vision. The Conqueror was the first book of yours I read, and I did not have a positive experience with it. When I heard good things about your [...]

Sadly, the marvelous Melanie Murray, editor of one of Jayne and my new favorite authors, Elizabeth Hoyt, is leaving Warner Publishing for other endeavors. Goodbye Ms. Murray. Best of luck. I hope Warner can find someone to fill your shoes.

ReaderGirlz is a site devoted to Young Adult (YA) books and to celebrate Teen Reader week which starts October 14, the site is hosting an author a day for 31 days. The list of authors that will come and participate in reader chats is like a who’s who of Young Adult authors, beginning with [...]

Part 3 of the Video Review of Claudia Dain’s The Courtesan’s Daughter

Gather.Com’s romance writing contest sponsored by Simon & Schuster, Borders and Gather.com has whittled 500 manuscript submissions down to twenty-five semi-finalists. You can read the second (and the first) chapters of the semi-finalists and rate which one you like the best until October 8, 2007.
Some of these books are going to need [...]

Madeline Hunter is famous for her rich detailed works. There’s not a wallpaper historical in her catalog of books. Last year’s publication, Rules of Seduction, was one of my favorites in 2007. Hunter’s latest release, Lessons of Desire, is out now and can be purchased in paperback or in ebook format at [...]

Dear Ms Kwitney,
I got started reading your books way back (well not all the way back with your first one) with “The Dominant Blonde” and haven’t missed one since. As my fellow blogger Janine says, you have a way with flawed characters. They usually seem flawed in a believable, human way instead of a [...]

Alan Greenspan debuts at the top with The Age of Turbulence. Julia London appeared with her authorized fan fiction story based on the soap opera Guiding Light. There were no other meaningful debuts and only four books dropped out of the list.
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74 Seaside Avenue, Debbie Macomber (Mira), $7.99, [...]

Bureaucracy generally moves slowly. In spring of 2004, the Justice Department issued a warning that there was a radical Islamist influence in the prisons. A couple of weeks ago, in response to that warning, the federal Bureau of Prisons began the “Standardized Chapel Library Project”. The BoP worked with “experts” and compiled [...]