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

Dear Ms. Hutchinson,
Firefighters are hot sexy thangs, so it’s easy to see why you picked that profession for this installment of the Courage Bay (Code Red) series. Wow, lots of stuff appears to be happening in this small, picturesque SoCal location including two people falling in love while they fight fires, rescue cats [...]

Note:  This is a two for one.  Janine read the book as well and her review follows Jayne’s.
Dear Ms. Higgins,
Jane has done a wonderful review of this book which I will link to so I don’t have to recap the plot. Love it when I can do that ’cause I’m really lazy.
Though I enjoyed it, [...]

Dear Ms. Higgins:
Congratulations on winning the RITA for best contemporary. I’ll confess that I’ve been a skeptic of RITA winners in the past, but as I was lost in the world of Eaton Falls, I thought yours was well deserved. Just One of the Guys (link to excerpt) is a book that sells [...]

A fire on February 22, 2008, consumed the Historic Boonsboro Inn that Nora Roberts and her family were restoring.  The blaze also damaged six other buildings in the small town. No one was injured but there was an estimated $1.5 to $2 million in damage.
The Smart Bitches reported on this yesterday and Nora dropped in [...]

Dear Ms. Banks,
You know what made me buy this book? Some people had commented on how closely it paralleled Shiloh Walker’s My Best Friend’s Lover. I had to buy the book myself to see if those accusations were true. See how well controversy sells? Suffice to say that these two books were [...]