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

Christine Brashears, owner of Samhain Publishing, brought suit against Ellora’s Cave on April 2008.  The details of the original suit I blogged about here.  Ellora’s Cave filed a countersuit, alleging Brashear engaged in misappropriation of trade secrets, defamation, breach of contract, tortious interference with existing and prospective contracts, among other allegations.
Discovery (the exchange of paper [...]

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 [...]

Dear Ms. Ryan-Davis:
This is a book in which I loved the voice but didn’t love the execution of the story which means I’ll be on the look out for future books despite this one not working out for me.
John Raincrow has been dispatched by C.C. Carver’s family to bring her home which dovetails nicely with [...]

Dear Ms. Rossetti:
This book recently won a Passionate Plume Award from Passionate Ink, the erotic SIG for RWA. I’ve long been intrigued by the blurb on EC, so thought I’d check it out. I’m very glad I did. It’s part of a series, but completely stands alone—I haven’t read the rest of the series, after [...]

Borders has filed a motion to dismiss in the lawsuit filed by Ellora’s Cave. The motion to dismiss mentions, among other things, that the number of returns EC incurred was due to EC’s own failure to provide full shipments. Instead, EC engaged in a practice of short shipments. From the Motion to [...]

Dear Ms. Gray:
I can’t recall why I wanted to read a book of yours. Was it a comment you made? Somewhere? It’s hard to say. I mentioned one night on Twitter that I was going to buy one of your books (Damnation) but my friend, Nicole of BlogHappy, twittered back that [...]

Note: I mentioned below that several ebook vendors were having big sales this week including BooksonBoard.  I read the BoB promotion to require a minimum of $100 to get the 50% rebate.  This is not accurate. There is a 50% rebate/reward for each book purchased through today regardless of what you spend.
Arstechnica, one of my [...]