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

Dear Ms. Michaels,
When I was checking out the new offerings from Harlequin, I saw your name and popped the book in my ecart without looking too closely at it. So, when I opened it up on my reader, I was dismayed to see that this is obviously a novella. Now, novellas can work for me [...]

Disney bought Marvel Comics for $4 billion. Disney will now own the rights to over 5,000 Marvel characters including Spider Man, X-men, Ironman, and the like. One key element of copyright law that people tend to forgot is that the longer copyrights benefit corporations like Disney more than any one else, even the individual copyright [...]

Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Louisa Edwards’ debut book, Can’t Stand the Heat, is on shelves tomorrow. (It’s probably in the stores in right now, but it’s official release date is tomorrow. Go forth read, [...]

Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general? Post away.

Welcome to Author Promo Night Open Thread. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows:

The book has to be released in that month (i.e., anything released during the last week of August would be a Sept release)
You can post for yourself or you can have a friend post for you if [...]

Those devoted to paper in publishing houses worry that digital publishing will lead to the loss of the art of publication.  The sad fact is that the art of publication has been subsumed in mass production long ago.  With increased paper costs, distribution costs, lowering margins, publishers have cheapened the physical book to the point [...]

Author Talk features nudity and PC and Kristin Cast.
Roxanne St. Claire is at the Borders True Romance blog talking about her latest book (a recommended read by Robin) and giving away three free copies of Hunt Her Down.
Huffington Post writes about the efforts of DirecTV to put cable stations TNT and TBS online. More [...]