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

Dear Ms Pattillo,
I’d call this book a loose sequel to last year’s “Jane Austen Ruined My Life.” It’s not necessary to have read that one to jump right into “Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart.” I also love that while you take advantage of the current “Austen craze,” this book isn’t one of the many [...]

Dear Ms. Katz,
Since I love the time frame, I’ve done a number of reviews of books set in ancient Rome and am always on the look out for more. Hence when Samhain offered us your book, “Damon’s Price,” this month, I pounced. Pounce is a good word to use here since the book involves [...]

Dear Ms. North:
A reader recommended this book to me. She said that she had picked it up during the All Romance eBook holiday giveaway for free and that it reminded her, a bit, of The Satin Sash. Specifically it was a menage a trois with a strong emotional component. I purchased the book [...]

Dear Ms. Weber:
This is a cute mystery which I think readers of the “old” chick lit mysteries would enjoy. Like the chick lit books of old, this is told in the first person and features a heroine who is learning to be more sure of herself.
Lucy Valentine is the last in a long line [...]

Dear Ms. Marchetta,
2006’s Jellicoe Road, which I reviewed here, was one of my absolute favorite books read last year. When I heard you were about to publish another book, this time, a YA fantasy titled Finnikin of the Rock, I requested an ARC of the book and was thrilled when one showed up in [...]

Dear Ms. Hunter:
Ravishing in Red begins a set of stories about a home for beguines. As the book describes it, “They were common in medieval France. Lay-women would live together as we do. Some would take employment outside the walls, and none took vows, but they lived communally.” After the war, many women [...]

Dear Ms. McSparren:
One negative aspect of having titles like the one that is given to your book is that it diminishes the content of the story Bachelor Cop is actually fairly intense emotional story but the title suggests something far more flippant. Perhaps that works in both positive and negative ways. Positive because the [...]