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

These are the August specials I know of. If I have missed some, let me know.  The Hachette deals can be found at most etailers like Kindle, Sony, BooksonBoard.com, and the like.
Orbit’s $1.00 release is

Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow, retail price $6.99 for $1.00 during the month of August.

Forever Summer Sizzling Reads for $1.99

Insatiable Desire [...]

I had to write this post after reading all the headlines on Twitter about Barnes and Noble’s ebookstore presenting real competition for the Amazon Kindle.   It’s not and here’s why.
First, BN’s ebookstore is simply that, a store. There is no device.  Kindle captured the burgeoning ebook crowd not because it simply provided books in [...]

For twenty four hours, BooksonBoard will offer Beyond Heaving Bosoms for 25% off beginning on April 14 10am cst to April 15 10am cst.
Along with 20% off list price all titles by these authors whose books are mentioned in the book:

Stephanie Laurens
JD Robb/ Nora Roberts
Jude Deveraux
Kelley Armstrong
Patricia Briggs

The promo code for readers will be “SmartOnBoard”. [...]

Michelle Sagara has alerted readers to an Amazon seller who is selling unpublished books.    TSCBooks is offering unpublished works of authors like Maya Banks, Michelle Sagara, Stephenie Meyer, Maria Snyder and the like.  These are books that are not published and some are not even in ARC form but the seller has them offered for [...]

I’m just reposting this as a reminder since the coupon will end on March 15, 2009.  
EXCLUSIVE OFFER FOR DA
READERS: TAKE $10 OFF YOUR $25 ORDER with Code DA25 at checkout

 
You can preorder these hot May titles
and get them before they arrive in stores:
         
 
Then use your discount to try out some fresh new voices
available [...]

Borders is running a Buy 4 Get 1 Free special for romances. When I first saw this discount notice in my inbox (which works out to about $1.25 off per book), I thought, “Sweet.” But apparently, I should have thought “those rat bastards.”
According to blogger at TensionBreaker:
Offering consumers 5 romance novels for the [...]

We all love to buy books, right? And as much as I luv me some ebooks, I still enjoy browsing in a bookstore. Something about the feel and heft of a book in my hands, the surprise discovery, the remembered TBB title makes a trip to my local brick and mortar store a treat. Sean [...]