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

Julie Leto is constantly honing her craft to be a better writer, so much so that her group blog is called the Plot Monkeys.  She’s had her writing ups and downs but Leto is a survivor, as any girl raised with three brothers would learn to be.  She’s on the high point now with a [...]

Dear Ms. Leto:
I’ve been anxiously awaiting this new paranormal series of yours from Signet since you announced it over a year ago. I’m intrigued by the premise and I liked parts of the story but overall, I felt like I was missing something when I closed the story.
Alexa Chandler is an heiress in control [...]

Author Julie Leto offers up a guest review of Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon. Boy’s Life was a book challenged by a parent in the Hernando County School District as “inappropriate” because of bad language. Mr. McCammon flew to the Hernando County School Board meeting to defend his book and prevailed.
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Dear Ms. Leto
It was been debated whether you write to the market or write what is in your heart. I have always voted that I want writers to write what is in their hearts because it makes for a better read. Your heart, shows through in this story and the first one in [...]

Boys of Summer
This whole “acknowledging your illness as the first step to recovery” is not working for me. I have already said that I don’t like anthologies but I keep buying them. I blame this mistake on the fact that I love sports and who can resist the ass on that guy? No straight [...]

In a comment over at Alison Kent’s blog, Julie Leto posted something that surprised me:
In my mind, writing reviews like this one (not a bad review…a TRASH review) is the same as going to Walmart and standing in front of the romance section and telling people to put that book down. If you didn't [...]

Dear Ms. Leto:
I really liked your book Dirty Little Secrets so I thought I would pick this one up. I thought it was a waste of my $3.00, frankly. And I think a book really has to be a stinker to not be worth $3.00 (although I was disappointed that I wasted the time and [...]