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

This review comes to us from guest blogger, Yapaway Jay who has given up her fiction books for law books. Go Jay, only one semester left?
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Dear Ms. Day,
I fell in love with the first book I read by you, The Stranger I Married, and ever since then you’ve been on my auto-buy [...]

This review comes to use from Charlene Teglia whose 2007 book, Wild, Wild West, was a big winner here at DearAuthor. Her next latest release, Satisfaction Guaranteed, is due out March 08.
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Dear Jane:
I love the Vorkosigan series. It’s full of adventure and excitement and clashing cultures, romance, mystery, humor, space battles, diplomatic [...]

The following guest review/letter comes from author Jenyfer Matthews whose latest release, One Crazy Summer, is available in ebook form.
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The nicest thing my ex-SIL ever did was introduce me to Nora Roberts books. She gave me a box of her castoffs with the warning that they were formulaic but fun. Included in the [...]

The following guest review/letter comes from author Jenyfer Matthews whose latest release, One Crazy Summer, is available in ebook form.
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The nicest thing my ex-SIL ever did was introduce me to Nora Roberts books. She gave me a box of her castoffs with the warning that they were formulaic but fun. Included in the [...]

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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At its most [...]

Dear Jane,
I would not describe myself as a science fiction fan-and not because I haven’t tried it. Thanks to my college habit of taking only classes that met Tuesday-Thursday, I’ve read the whole SF canon, everything from Left Hand of Darkness to Snow Crash. And while I didn’t hate it all (Because, really, [...]

The following guest review/letter comes from author Ann Christopher whose latest release, Sweeter Than Revenge, is due out on bookshelves soon. It’s a Kimani Imprint release and in some stores that means it will be shelved with the African American books and in others, it will be with the regular romances (where they [...]