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

Dear Ms. Mitchell.
Ever since you revealed that your next book would be about Jae Sun Kim, the hot, sarcastic, misanthropic doctor from Collision Course, I have been yearning for this book. Yearning, I tell you. The problem, of course, with wanting a book so hard is that when it comes, it might suck and all [...]

You can get a discount on some of the recommended reads at Books on Board.
Dark Angel/Lord Carew’s Bride by Mary Balogh. Recommended by Janine, Jennie and Jayne
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin. Recommended by Jia [...]

December was a slim month for us here at Dear Author, but here are our December recommended reads. Books on Board will be offering these at a discount (we got them to BoB very late).  The links go to the reviews.

Plan B: Boyfriend by Ellen Hartman
Flameseeker by Kay Danella
The Christmas Present by Tracy Wolff
An [...]

Dear. Ms. Mitchell.
I’ll pretty much read anything you’ve written, so I was thrilled when you posted that you’d written a historical short. An Improper Holiday was a lot of angsty fun, and I really enjoyed it, especially with the delicious little flip at the end of figuring out how two men in the early 19th [...]

Dear Ms. Mitchell.
This book reads like what I imagine being inside a guy’s head must be like. Lots of stonewalling, lots of mixed motivations, lots of confused emotions. This ability you have to get emotions perfectly right and to show how they are so very wrong-headed is both the beauty and the problem with this [...]

Here is our recommended read list for June. It’s light so feel free to make a recommendation in the comments:

How to Score by Robin Wells.  This contemporary romance book is recommended by Jane. It’s a fun, sexy read with mistaken identities, a bit of deceit, and a crazy dog.  (Warner Forever)
The Wild West by Victoria [...]

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Summary:  We had an interesting discussion about m/m topics given that two of my gay friends came to liveblog with us.  I liked Mitchell’s voice in this story and would definitely read another one, but I felt [...]