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

Harlequin is going to allow us to purchase the vintage cover paper goods. Woot. I am ordering some of those matchbook notepads and some of those little paper booklets and postcards and WHERE IS MY COFFEE MUG??? Seriously, Harlequin heard our voices, you guys!
It’s Western Week in blogland. Kristie J started it off.
First [...]

Dear Ms. O’Reilly,
I love what you do with your heroes and heroines. They’re not always totally believable (I mean, stranger sex in a stretch Hummer?) but I like these people. I’d like to have dinner with them on a couples night out and just sit and talk for hours. I feel that comfortable with [...]

Starting this month, all of the Dear Author recommended reads will be given a discount at digital bookseller, Books on Board.  The discount page is here. (In the future, we’ll always try to post this on Tuesday so you can get the discount the day of the release).

Written on Your Skin by Meredith Duran (recommended [...]

Part one of our Save the Contemporary contest is completed. The following winners will receive a copy of each of the winning books, Hot Under Pressure by Kathleen O’Reilly (review by SB Sarah) and The Magnate’s Make Believe Mistress by Bronwyn Jameson (review by Jane):

Kat
Camilla
Sally
SandyW
Ros
Jenny
Kim
Keira
Meghan B
Kate
Carin

Our daily winner for Part 2:

HockeyVampiress via Twitter
Melonie J [...]

It’s time for another Save the Contemporary campaign, with Dear Author, Smart Bitches, and prizes from Harlequin!
This time, we’re featuring two books – yes, two. Some of the great contemporary stories are found in category romance, so we’ve picked two books that we both really loved.

Hot Under Pressure by Kathleen O’Reilly (review by SB Sarah)
The [...]

Jayne, one of the founding members of Dear Author, is our resident explorer. She goes out and finds the most unusual settings, the most unknown authors, in all different genres, and brings them to our attention. She’s also one of my dearest reading friends. Without her, this blog probably would have died [...]

Over at the Smart Bitches website, there is a multi part post featuring a chapter by chapter redux of Kathleen O’Reilly’s Harlequin Blaze, Sex, Straight Up, by Doc Turtle. Doc Turtle was challenged to read a category by SB Sarah after Doc Turtle made some snide comments about Harlequin books.
Sex Straight Up was a lovely [...]