The 2007 Cover Cafe results are in and the winners may or may not surprise you. I think I voted for several of the winners although the two cover winner is not my favorite. I loved the comment by Karmyn on the worst cover on Big Spankable Asses. “But this gets my vote [...]

The winners of the Karen Rose, Scream for Me, Giveaway are listed below:

64 Books Enter. One Book Leaves.
Because we are having fun getting the brackets in and mostly because the games of the NCAA Tournament are not going to be played until Thursday, we are allowing people to fill out brackets until Wednesday at 11:59 pm.
The deets again are as follows:
Dear Author and the [...]

64 Books Enter. One Book Leaves.
Dear Author and the Smart Bitches present the DA BWAHA Tournament. We
have fielded a slate of 64 “best” books in 8 different categories:

Young Adult
Paranormal
Erotica/Erotic Romance
GLBT
Historical
Contemporary
Novel With Romantic Elements
Category

Today through Wednesday 7 am EST, you are allowed to fill out your bracket. The bracket is [...]

It’s March Madness time which means brackets, spoilers, and, of course, romance books! Admittedly, the last element of the list is a rarely known component of March Madness, one that is often lost amongst the basketball hoopla. Which is so wrong, we will do all kinds of crazy shit to make it right.
We thought [...]

The winner of the Wendy Nelson Tokunaga Midori by Moonlight festival is Andrea. I’ve emailed you so be sure to check your spam folder if you don’t see anything from Dear Author. The second winner of the “guess that book” contest is Shannon Stacey.
Thanks for commenting folks. We have [...]

In the grand tradition of the Smart Bitches Trashy Books’ Guess That Lonely Heart, Dear Author presents its first (and probably last) book quiz.
What famous romance author’s book features a lesbian love scene and concludes with the heroine having her cake and eating it too. (pun kind of intended).
Excerpt:

“Are you going to marry him?”
“I [...]

Before I give the names of the winners of our 2nd Annual Thanksgiving giveaway, I just want to say how grateful we all are here at Dear Author for the wonderful community of readers, commenters, and bloggers that make up this small slice of the romance reading community. We all were gratified by [...]

A few weeks ago, I started reading Lord of the Fading Lands by C.L Wilson. It was sold to me as a epic fantasy meets romance tale. I was skeptical. I hadn’t ever read an epic fantasy + romance and frankly, I didn’t know that it could be done. Epic fantasy, [...]

For those not familiar with Dear Author, we are running a reader contest in conjunction with the RITAs (reader defined as any person who reads romances regardless of occupation ;) ). The RITAs are the highest industry award that a romance writer can receive. The RITA winners are announced every summer in July [...]

Ashley
Rhonda

First one to email me at jane at dearauthor dot com gets choice of paper or ebook.
Winners of the RITA Balloting Contest:

mekool
rlbayne

If you don’t know what the Reader Ballot Contest is about, read here and here. Essentially, you fill out a ballot and have a chance to win a ton of books.

Do you remember that we are having a RITA related contest? Well, we are. If you fill out a ballot with your guesses as to who will win the RITA, you will be entered in our contest. The winner of the contest (US Residents only because of mailing costs) will recieve a [...]

Fictionwise uses a rebate system whereby you are given back dollars for purchases which you can then use for future purchases. Each Monday they offer three books with a 100% micropay rebate, meaning if you buy the book, you get the entire amount back to be used on a book in the future. [...]

The RITA finalists were announced last month. We wanted to devise a contest that would allow readers to feel more connected to the RITA Award which is considered by romance authors to be the Oscar of the romance genre. Any reader can fill out a ballot and submit their guesses [...]

I’ve got a hardcover copy of this book to giveaway to a random commenter. You just need to post the best bad date/bad prom night story in your memory banks. The comments will close on Sunday, April 22.
My worst date was in college. I hadn’t much dating experience. My parents were [...]

So you may have noticed that the blog and the forum were down at various times since Friday. I moved DearAuthor from Bluehost to Media Temple and due to my inexperience, it was kind of a shaky move. But everything seems to be working, including our controversial pink theme [...]

So one year ago today, Jayne and I started blogging. Oh, my how time flies. In celebration of our anniversary, Jayne and I chatted yesterday about our time together, ebooks, and the future of our blog. We are giving away 10! $5 gift certificates to Fictionwise and Amazon to commenters today. [...]

Publishers’ Weekly calls the contest that Borders is holding at Gather.com, the “Literary Idol” and today, Borders announced its top 20 semi-finalists. 12 men and 6 women and 2 initials. The winning contestant supposedly determined in part by the readers’ votes and comments, will win a contract with Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone [...]

I laughed a little uncomfortably when I wrote up the The Leopard Prince review. At the end of the story, Georgina loses all her good sense and intelligence, flies off the handle and makes some poor decisions. Much like me. (I liked the book despite that).
When I was writing last Sunday’s article about the [...]

CONTEST, CONTEST, CONTEST

Through April 2nd, Borders and Waldenbooks are featuring a buy 3, get 1 free for SELECTED romances and mysteries and 30% off one book if you spend $10.00 or more (coupon good from 3/8 - 3/11). This is obviously intended to get you in the store and buy more books than you [...]

Congratulations, Miki S. I’ll be emailing you soon for your snail mail information.

The winner of the last week’s ebook contest was Jenny. I’ll send you an email.

The winner of the last week’s ebook contest was Rocky. Please email me with your address so I can get you the copy of the much loved Nalini Singh’s Slave to Sensation.
11 out of 11 bloggers think Nalini Singh’s Slave to Sensation is the bomb. That’s a quorum, right? I’ve excluded DA [...]

Many times I hear from people that the ebook reader is too expensive and that is what is holding them back. Not true. I present to you the top 10 reasons why buying an ebook reader is economical and may just save your marriage.

10. Ebooks don’t take up any space. The [...]

So, using the random number generator, the first two numbers were 20 and 18. So the winners are Keishon and Miki S. Please contact Jane and let her know where to send the book. Keishon gets first choice between Morrigan’s Cross and Conspiracy Game. Click on the “more” link for the contact [...]

Samhain Publishing graciously offered DearAuthor three gift certificates of $5.00. The winners are 3, 5, 16 (picked by Ned). I will email Samhain with your email addresses. The winners were picked at random from the 18 comments left during last Sunday’s Ebook Weekly article. Ebook lovers may want to visit [...]

CONTEST HAS CLOSED AS OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2006. See updated note below
WIN $200 AMAZON Gift certificate from DearAuthor.com by participating in a blogging experiment
UPDATE To see if you have been entered, please check this post. I have listed all the entrants that I know of. If I haven’t caught you, leave a comment [...]

I am cycling this to the top to close out the contest. One more guess needed, ladies.
CONTEST! Venus Press is offering DearAuthor readers a chance to win three gift certificates worth $5.00. You just need to post below one of the three books Jane bought in trying out Venus Press. Hint: One is from [...]

Amber Quill Winners are announced. When we did our ebook weekly review of Amber Quill’s post, Amber Quill offered up two free books to dearauthor readers. Those readers have been picked by AmberQuill and the readers will receive their free books today.

#34 — Keishon: Smuggler’s Bride by Darlene Marshall
#177 — Phyllis P: [...]