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

Dear Ms. Kittredge,
I have a very hard time explaining why I keep reading this series.  As I’ve mentioned in the past, the main character, Luna Wilder, can be really off-putting at times.  On the other hand, it’s very nice to see her maturing and evolving over the course of the series.  The Luna Wilder we [...]

Dear Ms. Kittredge,
I think most readers who’ve heard of you are more familiar with your Luna Wilder series.  While I have my reservations about the titular character of those books, I do think they’re a good way to pass the time.  But I’ll confess: the series I’ve really been waiting for are [...]

Dear Ms. Kittredge,
I have an uneasy relationship with the heroine of your Nocturne City novels, Luna Wilder. What this means is that I sometimes think she makes stupid decisions, which I don’t care for since I prefer a certain level of intelligence and competence in my urban fantasy leads (or leads in [...]

Dear Ms. Kittredge,
When I read your debut novel, Night Life, I’m afraid I found myself among that group of readers who considered your heroine Luna Wilder abrasive, obnoxious, and borderline stupid.  But even so, the Nocturne City setting stuck with me and while I felt that I might not be a perfect [...]

Dear Ms. Kittredge,
I was introduced to your writing by your short story, “Newlydeads”, in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon. While that story didn’t work as well for me as I’d hoped, I still looked forward to your first novel. Sometimes short stories aren’t the best indicators of good novelists and since Night Life was set [...]

Dear Authors,
While many readers dislike anthologies because the good stories are often outnumbered by the bad, I’m not one of them. I love anthologies. They let me sample many different authors at once — old favorites and new-to-mes. And sometimes all it takes is one perfect story to make an anthology worthwhile.
The [...]