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Warner Forever is offering Larissa Ione’s book, Pleasure Unbound, for $1.00 during the month of March. This special should be available whereever ebooks are sold. (Note that Hachette does not control which retailers choose to pick up this offer, only that they make it available).  Larissa has two other releases to watch for: [...]

Chicago Sun Times has a run down of some winners and losers in the recession.  According to Borders spokesperson, most of the sales are flat except for American history books (Obama?), romance novels, science fiction and fantasy books.  

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.
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I always knew there were different worlds alongside my own:  places of angels or demons.  But this feeling went away over [...]

Dear Ms. Balogh:
I’ve read you intermittently for maybe fifteen years.  Some of the books you’ve written I’ve adored and re-read dozens of times.  For some of your out of print books, I’ve paid outrageous sums of money.  Some of the books, though, I’ve found a bit tedious.  First Comes Marriage falls on the high end [...]

My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between.  Award winning author Charlotte Hughes began her writing career publishing newspaper and magazine articles before becoming a New York Times best selling author. Charlotte makes her home in Beaufort, S. C. Best [...]

(Based off of Shakespeare’s famous sonnet)
Shall I compare thee to the A Grade?
Thou art more grating to my skull
A good contemporary should be a lively parade
But I find this book amazingly dull.
Sometimes the heroine whines about life
And the hero pretends to be a jerk
Round after round of endless sniping strife
I despise both and hope it [...]