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

Dear Ms Pattillo,
I’d call this book a loose sequel to last year’s “Jane Austen Ruined My Life.” It’s not necessary to have read that one to jump right into “Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart.” I also love that while you take advantage of the current “Austen craze,” this book isn’t one of the many [...]

Dear Ms. Austen,
I will confess right off the bat that I’m one of those readers who never “got” you. I tried to read Pride and Prejudice years ago, but gave up after a few pages because of your writing style. What can I say – I had less patience in those days with long, indirect [...]

The Kindle’ 2 price drop from $359 to $299.  Some reports say this is due to the drop in cost of manufacturing of the eink screens. Who knows.
Lucinda Betts and Elise Logan sent me the link to NPR’s piece by Jack Murnighan who is a closet romance reader (not so closeted anymore, Jack).  Wonder if Jack [...]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Auto-buy for me
Jane Austen and zombies? This
is my dream come true.
At first, I’m puzzled.
Why is Jane Austen sharing
copyright with Seth?
Public domain book
But I read and it is clear
more ripoff than new.
The text, dialogue
word for [...]

Orbit’s new creative director, Lauren Panepinto, blogged about the production of the cover for Jennifer Rardin’s “Bite” books. It’s a pretty fascinating behind the scenes look as it shows the model with the leather and the crossbow.

Speaking of Orbit, it sounds like Hachette and everyone is making up so you should be able to [...]

Note: There might be details in the review that some might view as spoiler-ish.  Just an FYI.
Dear Ms Pattillo,
A copy of your latest book, “Jane Austen Ruined My Life,” was included in one of the recent arc packages Jane sent to me. Since I’ve enjoyed several of your previous stories, I made sure to put [...]

Dear Readers,
Last month we received an unusual request at Dear Author. We were asked to review something other than a book — a DVD set called “The Romance Collection: Special Edition.” The 14 DVD set, which can be found here, retails for $99.95 and contains nearly 30 hours of programming (not [...]