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

Author LA Banks introduces President Obama at a Healthcare Summit in Philadelphia. Banks writes the popular The Vampire Huntress series published by St. Martin’s Press and a new angel based series for Pocket. H/t to Rose Fox.
Ms Banks blogged about her experience and it’s pretty moving:
But my speech had gone out of my [...]

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Harlequin has priced all the Kimani titles at 40% this month.

Commenter Dana points out Direct ebooks is selling all the romance titles at 25% off through February. All the ebooks on this site have no geographic limitations.

Hachette has a few bundling deals (usually these can only be found at the Sony ebookstore)

Get 2 K.J.Parker [...]

Steve Jobs was interviewed by Walt Mossberg after the iPad event. (I cringe everytime I have to write iPad. Maybe I’ll just call it iSlate). Jobs states that he believes the prices in the iBookstore will match other prices online and that publishers will be withholding books from Amazon, presumably because of [...]

Harlequin has posted a behind the scenes look at a cover shoot for the upcoming trilogy by Linda Lael Miller:

They obviously put a lot of thought and time into the covers. You know who I think romanticized cowboys for me? Louis L’Amour. I remember devouring his Sackett series as a teen. Sa-wooon. [...]

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 [...]

The winners of the CL Wilson, Queen of Song and Souls are as follows:

Pamk
stephanie
Rexe
Julie
Sharon

I have sent you an email.
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Inside the Higher Ed blog has another piece on technology and scholarship. This time, Alex Golub laments the shift of readers from paper texts to digital texts arguing that scholarship includes making the texts part of [...]

I woke up and Twitter was alive with the news that Simon & Schuster was making a huge change to its organizational structure. Simon Spotlight Entertainment and Pocket Books will be reconfigured. All the hardcovers and trade books that were once Pocket Books or SSE will now be Gallery Books. Pocket Books will [...]