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

Dr. Sarah Frantz (aka Joan here at Dear Author) has an article published in the Jane Austen Society of North America. You can read the entire article here in which Dr. Frantz talks about the legacy of Darcy in the post modern romance novel. It’s all about the hero.
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Candace Sams continues her wigging out which [...]

I often hear about authors’ critique groups.  Some authors hire beta readers.  Some rely on random readers and some have a trusted circle.  Ian McEwan falls into the latter group.  His first readers are poet Craig Raine, historian Timothy Garton Ash and philosopher Galen Strawson.
Ian McEwan, it turns out, has a triumvirate of friends whom [...]

It doesn’t surprise you that JK Rowling is at the top of the list, does it? According to Forbes, Rowling has made over $300 million in the last year. Forbes says that the Potter series has sold 375 million+ copies worldwide. James Patterson comes in a distant but respectable second with a [...]

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What do Diana Peterfreund, Lauren Willig, Julia Quinn, and Eloisa James have in common? They are all Ivy League educated authors. Peterfreund is a graduate of Yale University. Willig, Quinn and James are Harvard educated. They are all, to varying degrees, commercially successful writers.
At the both ends of the [...]

On Running with Quills, Katherine Stone announced a new website to be launched November 1, 2007, called WritersareReaders.com (website currently not operational). The website will feature reviews written by authors. While Stone says that while negative reviews are acceptable, the only reviews she has received are the ones beloved by authors. While [...]