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

Dear Ms. Bliss:
I hope that is your real name. I love it.  Miss Bliss.  Has a very naughty sound to it.  In any event, it wasn’t your name that prompted me to pick up this title. Instead it was a combination of things.  First, an excerpt of your book, Mr. Imperfect appeared at the end [...]

Dear Ms. Ford,
Sometimes I’m in the mood for a nice, gentle story to cuddle up with. A story that features good people who act sensibly without throwing snits over Big Misunderstandings. A story about families who get along. A story set in small town America but one which doesn’t denigrate big cities. Or have [...]

Dear Ms. Watt,
I love a contemporary that doesn’t ask me to put up with idiot behavior or a stupid premise that has to be explained every which way to try and get me to believe in it. Thank you for giving me such a book.
Now that his rodeo career is over, Kade Danning has nowhere [...]

Dear Ms. Brady,
After I bought your book, I pulled it up on my Sony and began to read the opening scene. Which is where I stopped, more than a little afraid that I wasn’t going to be able to read a book which seemed to be headed towards over sensationalism. A [...]

Dear Mrs. Hartman,
After the A grade I gave the last book of yours I read, I had high hopes for this one. Perfect heroine and slacker hero find love fifteen years later despite having to overcome the mistaken images they’ve maintained of each other over the years? Okay, I can go with [...]

Dear Ms. Blackwell,
I didn’t realize this book is part of the “Everlasting Love” line until I began to read it. Which shows how much I pay attention to the “icon” on the front cover. Anywho, since my house has been a renovation project in the works for years now, that aspect of the book description [...]

Dear Ms. Mayberry:
I have to start out this review by admitting my personal bias. I am not a huge fan of kids in romance books, or at least how they seem to be generally characterized. While I am a mother myself, I do not believe that children are necessary to be fulfilled either [...]