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

I have no idea the contractual terms under which Stephen Covey made his publishing deal with Simon & Schuster but apparently it is allowing him to sell his digital rights to Rosetta Books in a deal that will make two of his bestselling books available ONLY on the Kindle platform for one year.  My guess is [...]

Last week, Amazon crept into consumer’s Kindles and deleted two ebooks that had been purchased: 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell.  These books are considered public domain in several countries but not in the US.  The copies that had been uploaded were not authorized copies for readers in the U.S.  Instead of contacting the [...]

Dear Ms. Roberts:
One thing that you never fail to do is make the setting come alive. The South Dakota Black Hills have never sounded so welcoming, so engaging than in your book, Black Hills. The story is in three parts and while I am never a fan of flashbacks, I did feel like the [...]

Dear Ms. Roberts:
While I haven’t read all of your books, I’ve read a great many of them and I think I can safely say that Vision in White is one of the funniest books you’ve penned in a long time. I thought Carter Maguire, the clumsy, blushing, tweed wearing, Yale educated, English [...]

For a cool grand, you can buy the first color ebook reader. It has an 8″ color screen, bluetooth, wi fi, a touchscreen, USB port. It’s based off Windows CE so you could run any number of software reading programs like MS Lit, eReader or Mobipocket off of it. The battery life is [...]

Stephenie Meyer sold 8 million copies of her books in December. DECEMBER. 28 million copies have been sold overall. Since Meyer doesn’t plan on writing more Sparkly Vampires and Doormat Girls anytime soon, there will be a vacuum. Who is going to fill it?
Harlequin is giving away another ebook. It’s [...]

First, let me apologize for not putting up another poll for so long. I kept meaning to put up another one but kept putting it off because I couldn’t think of a good poll topic (if you have one, let me know – jane at dearauthor.com). Second, what do you think of series books? [...]