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

Book Expo America is underway. It is one of the largest (if not the largest) trade shows for the publishing business.  For those of us stuck at home, we can follow along the attendees activities on twitter by searching the hashtag #bea09.  
Conventions are a mainstay of the science fiction/fantasy genre but only in the [...]

BookExpo Canada (aka BEC) has suffered a series of blows with major publishers deciding not to attend this year’s trade show in Canada. Today Reed has decided to cancel the event altogether. The BEC guy sounds morose and sad:
Greg Topalian, senior v-p for Reed Exhibitions, said, however, that it has become clear that [...]

I’ve been a romance reader since I was in high school, but during my school years, I read alone. I didn’t know anyone else who read romance – a few of my friends might pick up a Nora Roberts book a couple of times a year, but that was all. That all changed [...]

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