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

Dear Ms. Higgins:
I am a fan of your work. It’s in my bio, over there, on the right hand side—-> But this book didn’t work so well for me because, primarily, I felt Lucy was a wallower.  This is a story about loss and everyone’s attempts to recover from loss.  For some, the loss is [...]

File this under “where have I been” but apparently Paramount is engaged in some egregious whitewashing in the Airbender movie. Aspiring author, Ellen Oh, writes about how whitewashing is racist. There is a site devoted to the Airbender casting fiasco (all the heroes are white and the bad guy and secondary characters are ethnic [...]

In Linda Howard’s book All the Queen’s Men, Louis Ronsard plays the villian.  He’s a wealth arms dealer who is portrayed as completely amoral.  He is targeted as the middleman who sells stolen arms to terrorists.
Ronsard was a shadowy Frenchman who gave his allegiance to no one group; he was the conduit, however, for many, [...]

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. Laura Kinsale writes historical romances and her latest release, Lessons in French, is in stores now.
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First sale, huh?  It was a looong time ago.  But one doesn’t forget that sort [...]

This is kind of incredible, but if you want the digital backlist titles of Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton or Lora Leigh for free, this is how you do it.  Go to Fictionwise and open an account.  Buy one of the Evanovich or Grafton titles and pay for it with a credit card or paypal.  Once [...]

Back in December of 2008, I wrote about the ebook tax or the surcharge that Macmillan and other publishers were placing on ebooks by charging more for the digital version of the print book. At the time I said this:
The more that I look at ebook pricing and the way that NY runs their [...]

Dear Ms. Donald:
This is a very recognizable storyline within the Harlequin Presents line. The hero, Kain Gerard, believes that the heroine, Sable Martin, is a no good gold digger out to seduce his cousin’s fortune away. Kain is summoned by his aunt to check out this woman for whom the cousin, Brent, has [...]