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

Some of you might have noticed, on the top of the Samhain website page there is information and a link for the poll about the Sammie Awards this year. PGo vote for your  favorite Samhain titles in 2009.

Macmillan ratchets it up the debate by putting a full page ad in the NYTimes for Atul [...]

I’m not entirely certain what to make of this news but Dorchester has sold both frontlist and backlist titles of some of its major authors.    These titles have been acquired by Avon.  In a statement from Avon:
HarperCollins has acquired several frontlist and backlist titles from Dorchester publishing and has also extended its distribution partnership. [...]

Dr. Sarah Frantz (aka Joan here at Dear Author) has an article published in the Jane Austen Society of North America. You can read the entire article here in which Dr. Frantz talks about the legacy of Darcy in the post modern romance novel. It’s all about the hero.
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Candace Sams continues her wigging out which [...]

Reader Karen brings this great deal to readers:
I found this holiday code at Scooper Speaks blog. Today (and yesterday), all of the books on Dorchester’s site are 70% off. The promo code is Holiday70. (http://www.dorchesterpub.com/)
There’s no indication on the site that the sale exists. I called their 800 number to confirm before creating my account [...]

Someone’s going to hell over this. Vatican’s hottest in priest’s robes. (JD Robb’s Salvation in Death has a hot priest). According to one commenter, though, these pictures are not only 4 years old but also not of priests but of Gondola drivers in robes.
Simon & Schuster has totally redone it’s website (thank [...]

The big news of the day is Dorchester is going digital.  According to the press release,  by summer Dorchester will do simultaneous releases of its book in print and digital format for all of its new titles, but expect to see titles as early as April in multiple DRM formats.  You can read more about [...]

I am still digesting and working on a post regarding the Google BookSearch Settlement.  If you have thoughts on it, feel free to email me (jane at dearauthor.com).  I’m fairly concerned about the future impacts and my initial feelings are ones of concern.  Today, though, I thought I would give some bullet point items about [...]