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

Dear Ms. Wolff:
I am ordinarily not a fan of the holiday focused book although I know that these are popular with many many readers (including my dear blogging partner, Jayne).  However, I did enjoy your first book with Harlequin, A Christmas Wedding.  That book contained quite a few out of the ordinary elements including the [...]

The Swan (1956)
Genre: Historical Dramedy
Grade: B-
Here’s a golden oldie, or moldy oldie if you don’t care for it. The movie is based on a play written by Ferenc Molnar and was filmed twice before this final one was made. It’s Grace Kelly’s next-to-the-last film made before her marriage to a real Prince and she never [...]

Dear Ms. Hart,
Bess Walsh needs time away from her unhappy marriage. She finds it at the beach house she inherited from her parents. There, in the water, Bess fantasizes about Nick, the boy she loved and lost twenty years before. She touches herself and soon she feels Nick touching her. The lovemaking [...]

Janine: When Jaili (Maili) and I recently found out we were reading the same little-known book from 2008, Dru Pagliassotti’s Clockwork Heart, we thought it would be fun to discuss it here at Dear Author. But first, a plot synopsis:
Clockwork Heart takes place in a fictional Industrial Age city-state called Ondinium. [...]

Dear Ms. Pappano,
One thing I’m trying to do this year is expand my reading horizons.  I usually stay within my favorite genres of fantasy, paranormals, and young adult, but sometimes you need variety to keep things interesting.  So when I was glancing through the eHarlequin website earlier this month, your book caught my [...]

Dear Ms. Kleypas:
Some have told me that Seduce Me at Sunrise was as good as Kleypas’ penultimate book, Dreaming of You, featuring Derek Craven and Sara Fielding. The book had some similar underpinnings with the hero being of the lower class with a grotesque background who feels completely unworthy to be loved by [...]