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

Jason Pinter wonders whether being online and so accessible removes the mystique of an author and thereby reduces one’s ability to sell books.
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More authors are getting into the casual gaming platform.  Orchid Games released Heartwild Solitaire Classic and recruited a few authors to write short stories that players are allowed to read after winning a [...]

Harlequin is launching Harlequin Horizons through a partnership with Author Solutions, Inc.
Through this strategic alliance; all sales, marketing, publishing, distribution, and book-selling services will be fulfilled by ASI; but Harlequin Horizons will exist as a division of Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Harlequin will monitor sales of books published through the self-publisher for possible pickup by its [...]

Ellora’s Cave is finally selling its ebooks outside of its own portal, jasminejade.com.  Strangely, though, Ellora’s Cave is setting its list prices at third party vendors at twice the rate of the ebook price at jasminejade.com.  For example, Jade Black’s After the Storm sells for $7.99 in unencrypted PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, and Rocketbook [...]

Buy 2 or more Harlequin eBooks from Sony Store on Wednesdays & you’ll receive a code for a free ebook.
Orbit’s $1.00 title is Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson
The following are Forever $1.99 titles from Grand Central.  Grand Central makes these deals available to all etailers who carry the Forever ebooks but not all etailers [...]