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

Do you buy books as gifts? There’s something wonderful about sharing one’s love for reading with another, particularly kids.  Here’s my last minute holiday book gift guide.  Share yours!
Pre K to 1st grade:  Nora Gaydos “Now I’m Reading” series.  I like the collection of 10 books which help your child build her phonics skills.  The [...]

New Moon was released this past weekend and grossed a whopping $140.7 million. Record shattering.  New Moon also debuted at No. 5 on the NYT Bestseller Children’s list and spent 11 consecutive weeks on the list.
There is obviously overlap between the readers and movie goers.  So I ask you, will you see a movie of [...]

JMC posted last week about having problems with con artist protagonists. I’ve enjoyed the occasional assassin book such as Kelley Armstrong’s Nadia Stafford series or Barry Eisler’s John Rain series. Jenny Crusie seems to love the morally ambiguous protagonist with books like Welcome to Temptation, Faking It, and Agnes and the Hitman.
I voted [...]

I was emailing with someone yesterday about books set in Minneapolis such as Sunshine by Robin McKinley, War for the Oaks by Emma Bull, contemporaries from Susan Johnson and Connie Brockway; the super fabulous Monkeewrench mystery books by PJ Tracy (they have a new one coming out next year!).   Some authors really imbue their [...]

There is so much I could write about in terms of names in books (and maybe that will be an upcoming Tuesday post) but for today, we have a poll inspired by author Christina Dodd who tweeted today:

“For you as a reader, is it important that you can pronounce character names?”
Yes is my reply. I [...]

To give equal time to the women, I present the heroine poll. Do you like your heroines perfect or flawed, physically? Personally, I like both but if I had to choose (and I am making you if you want to vote) for the physically flawed heroine because perfection can be boring.
Really [...]

I’ll admit I’m a bit shallow. I like my heroes tall, at least 6′.  I think other romance readers must as well because you rarely read about the short hero (even if the heroine is short, the hero must tower over her).  Jayne Ann Krentz is about the only author I know who gets away [...]