Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Mindy Klasky writes paranormal romances for Harlequin and fantasy books for ROC. Her book , Magic And The Modern Girl, is in stores now and an excerpt [...]

Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Except this is Wednesday, you say. Well, yes, I double booked which means bonus for Dear Author readers. Cody McFadyen’s second book, The Darker Side, is out on [...]

Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Deirdre Martin writes contemporary romances for Berkley, most of which feature a member of the fictional New York Blades. Body Check, her first sale, is one of my [...]

Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Douglas Carlton Abrams writes historical fiction for Atria. His debut book, The Lost Diary of Don Juan, is in stores now.
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I have been writing fiction and actively pursuing the dream [...]

Here’s your weekly dose of Author Talk with amateur actors, producers and filmographers, but purportedly professional writers talking about about Roxanne St. Claire’s Bulletcatcher series. Roxanne’s latest book, Now You Die, is in stores now.
A friend of mine was asking me about Roxanne St. Claire’s books the other day complaining (rightfully so) [...]

We talk alot about Keishon here at Dear Author because she is a dear friend to many of the Dear Author bloggers. She is also one of the primary influences on my reading (as well as others here) for outside the romance genre recommendations. She got me started reading PJ Tracy and Karin [...]

Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Christine Wells writes historical romances for Berkley. Her book, Dangerous Duke, is in stores now.
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I was about to put my quest for publication on [...]

I read somewhere that Debbie Macomber has a mailing list of over 75,000 readers who receive postcard updates of her latest releases. Her first sale, HeartSong, was the first ever romance to be reviewed by Publishers Weekly.
It’s hard to imagine that someone like Ms. Macomber ever worried about being published. But Macomber, [...]

For anyone who is a long time reader of Dear Author, you’ll know that Julie Kenner is one of Jayne’s favorite authors. Ironically, Kenner’s books are ones that we rarely receive review copies of. Many of the Kenner books that Jayne has reviewed she has purchased herself. What’s even more amazing is [...]

Hilarious, as always (Note to self: no food/drink while watching authortalk videos). See Nora perform some of the skills she picked up researching Tribute, her July release.
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