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

According to Publishers' Weekly, Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson series has been picked up by 50 Canon Entertainment.
Deets for the fans:
50 Canon is run by Mark Newell who has an eclectic directing background.  His portfolio includes Four Weddings and a Funeral (loved*) and Pushing Tin (liked) and the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (never watched).  Perhaps [...]

An enterprising author offers up his book for auction on eBay. The auction, entitled “Offering the Rights to My Book” starts with a bid of $5,000.00 and free shipping.
The book has apparently already been sold to a publisher and is set to be published this coming month (September), but the rights (unclear [...]

Definitely a buy for me.
Joyce Lebra’s THE SCENT OF SAKE, about a 19th century Japanese woman who overcomes tremendous obstacles to build a sake empire and a family dynasty at a time when women were forbidden to do business, to Carrie Feron at William Morrow, at auction, by Natasha Kern at Natasha Kern Literary [...]

Being pop culturally deficient, I can say I’ve never seen either Ocean’s 11 or Veronica Mars so I don’t know what the book could possibly be like.
NYT bestselling author of CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY and I’D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I’D HAVE TO KILL YOU Ally Carter’s next Gallagher [...]

I’ve sadly been falling down on posting these. I logged in today at Publishers’ Marketplace and saw that there were 455 new deals since I had last checked. Zoinks.
I think I read one Jane Green book. Why do I think she writes about infidelity alot?
Three more books by British writer Jane Green, [...]

This looks hilarious.
Drew Ferguson’s THE SCREWED-UP LIFE OF CHARLIE THE SECOND, about a dorky seventeen-year-old who can’t pass his driver’s test, can’t stand his overbearing parents, can’t stop masturbating, and, most of all, can’t find a guy to make out with, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington, by Jennifer DeChiara at the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency [...]

I keep saying I need to read her.
THE ALIBI MAN author Tami Hoag’s three new suspense novels, again to Nita Taublib and Danielle Perez at Bantam Dell, by Jane Rotrosen Agency.

Woot! I have no idea what Shift is about but I am sure it is good.
Nalini Singh’s SHIFT plus two [...]