Dear Ms. Hancock,
If I recall correctly from the email Harlequin/Silhouette sent Dear Author, you’re a new author they discovered via email submission.  I always look forward to reading new authors in the hope of finding someone I’ll love.  And at these short fiction lengths, it’s a minimal time commitment, which means less risk for me.  [...]

Dear Ms. Anna,
While I’ve heard of you before, this is the first story of yours I’ve read.  I know some of my fellow Dear Author reviewers don’t care for shorter fiction.  The compressed length doesn’t allow for as much development as you’d find in a full-length novel and as a result, something (plot, characterization, worldbuilding) [...]

Dear Ms. Knight:
I admit to rolling my eyes a bit over the beginning book because I kept thinking of the movie 300.  The prologue is the set up for the entire series.  7 books involving 7 Spartan warriors who stood at the gap at Thermopylae to stave off the demonic forces overtaking [...]

Dear Ms. Kohler:
I’m going to address a few of my concerns about this book in chronological fashion.
Prologue. Ad 70: The scene is an apocolyptic event. The fortress is on fire; the people are fleeing. A witch is bringing down a powerful curse on the Marshan family. Cristophe, [...]

Dear Ms. Holder,
/>I’m afraid the merfolk romance is not for me. I’ve never been enchanted by merpeople and honestly, the thought of getting up close and personal with someone who has a fishtail weirds me out. It also makes me crave sushi, which weirds me out even more. [...]

Dear Ms. Briggs,
Once in a while there comes a book that sweeps you off your feet, a book you fall in love with so completely that it is hard to do justice to that love in a review. Alpha and Omega and Cry Wolf made me feel that way.
Because of the way [...]

Dear Readers,
Since this review covers my responses to nine short stories and two novellas, I’ve decided that for the sake of clarity, it would be simper to address this letter to you rather than to eleven authors.
Tangle is an anthology featuring a variety of same-sex love stories. All the romances here have two heroes, [...]

Dear Ms. Dodd:
You are a very polished and talented writer and this entry into the Darkness Chosen series is as fast paced and readable as the others. Adrik Wilder left his family at age 17, became one of the most feared mercenaries in the world, leading a tribe of outlaws, all vying [...]

Dear Ms. Ione,
I’m not exactly sure what I expected of new Demonica paranormal series, but a story sounded in a demon hospital sounded interesting so I decided to give it a shot. What I found was a read that, for the most part, I found lively and entertaining, even if I [...]

Dear Ms. Walker:
I know it has taken me a long time to complete this review, but the truth is that it took me a long time to complete Through The Veil. At first I kept thinking it was just that I couldn’t sit down and focus long enough on the story [...]