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REVIEW: The Chef’s Choice by Kristin Hardy

By Jayne • Aug 7th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Hardy,
I may not be a foodie but I love food as unfortunately my butt shows. I don’t have the greenest thumb yet I can manage to keep plants alive. Usually. Well, at least for a while. So anyway, watching chef Damon Hurst and landscaper Cady McBain clash and spark was as much [...]



REVIEW: Sweet Talk by Susan Mallery

By Jane • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews

Dear Ms. Mallery:
July, August, and September sees the release of your Keys’ Bakery sisters series. The series begins with Claire, a piano virtuoso. Claire has been estranged from her family since, well, almost forever. When she was 3 years old, she walked up to a piano and started playing and [...]



REVIEW: Delicious by Susan Mallery (Buchanan Book 1)

By Jane • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: C Reviews, C Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Mallery:
I’ve gone on a bit of a Mallery glom and the readers here will have to suffer along with me. Delicious is the second book I read in the Buchanan series. I read book 2, Irresistible, first. I’m not sure whether knowing the outcome of the story in [...]



REVIEW: Dishing with the Kitchen Virgin by Susan Reinhardt (5/08)

By Jayne • May 20th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Mrs. Reinhardt,
I started out thinking this book would be one thing - your attempts at cooking told in a humorous style - and ended up with something much different. Instead we get annecdotes of Southern life that involve cooking or attempted cooking or dodging cooking that do bring to mind the [...]



REVIEW: Just a Taste by Deirdre Martin

By Jane • Jan 5th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Martin:
I read this on the heels of the Top Chef finale. While I am a decent cook, I am no chef but I love all things food related. The love of food makes this cooking oriented novel hit the right spot for me.
Vivi Robitaille has come to America to open her [...]



Disturbing Similarities Between Seinfeld’s Wife’s Cookbook and a Non Celebrity One

By Jane • Oct 19th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

We’re no strangers to plagiarism here at Dear Author. While out and out copying is easy to spot, strong similarities is a more murky area. The number 2 book on the USA Today bestseller list and the Number 1 hardcover on the Advice, How-To and Misc NYT list is Jessica Seinfeld’s “Deceptively Delicious“. [...]



REVIEW: The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella

By Jayne • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: A- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Mr. Capella,
I’m so glad your editor persuaded you to write this book. And for the positive buzz at various other romance review sites that brought it to my attention. I’ve also heard that it’s already been optioned for a movie and after reading it, I can see why. The descriptions of Italy and [...]