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

I started a Why I Read/Why I Write series earlier in the year but couldn’t sustain enough submissions to keep posting them.  Courtney Milan sent this to me earlier in the year and I promised to post it near her release date.
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Insert the depressing numbers of your choice into this paragraph: Of the wannabe authors [...]

No first sale today.  Instead we have two essays.  Later by an author on why she writes but right now, a very very special Why I Read.
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I learned to read when I was 4, just as my 4-year-old best friend Danny became sick (he was dying of leukemia) and I was starting to be sexually [...]

Introduction
This is a long article. Grab a cup of coffee and settle in.  I wrote this article and sent it to the RWR but it wasn’t suited for publication so I thought I would share it with you.  The right to sever a copyright grant after 35 years came to my attention when Evan Schnittman [...]

Last winter, I posted that I would love to hear from readers, writers, bloggers about why they read, write and blog. Gail Dayton, author of the new book, New Blood, offers up this personal account.
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I love to read. No, I looooove to read. And I read fast. I read about 300 books a [...]

Last winter, I posted that I would love to hear from readers, writers, bloggers about why they read, write and blog. Keishon, avid book reader, is one of our favorite bloggers here at Dear Author. Three of us here are participating in her monthly TBR challenge. Keishon is the reader who introduced [...]

Last winter, I posted that I would love to hear from readers, writers, bloggers about why they read, write and blog. Bev Stephans was one of the first to come forth and share her story with our community about why she reads.
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I don’t have a blog and I don’t write books, but I love [...]