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

Dear Ms. McCabe,
Last year when I read your book “A Sinful Alliance,” the secondary Italian character Balthazar Grattiano caught my eye. Well, he and the Tudor setting. So I was a happy woman when I learned that he was going to get his own book and that it would take place on the early [...]

Dear Ms. McCabe,
I think this is an example of one of the best titles I’ve seen in a long time. Why? Because it basically covers just about everything in the plot. Like the first of the new Harlequin Undone line I read, “Libertine Lord, Pickpocket Miss” by Bronwyn Scott, it’s a short story – a [...]

Dear Mrs. Lee,

Dear Ms. Gregory,
Once again we get to see the adroit tight-rope walking that it took to live in the Tudor court. While it’s more history than romance, the story of Anne Boleyn’s sister (the first Boleyn girl in Henry’s bed) is definitely fascinating. It could also be titled “Life in the Snake and Scorpion Pit.” [...]

Dear Ms Carras,
This one starts out as a tad more like a historical novel than a historical romance. Kind of in the Plaidy/Lofts style. But the second half turns up the romance.
It’s 1558 and 17 year old Jean Hamilton is a spirited Highland lass who’s been sent to the French court to wait [...]