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

Value, value, value. That seems to have become one of those buzzwords invoked in defense of corporate publishing’s status quo. But what is value, exactly?
Of the “agency model,” Hatchette CEO David Young has said, “It allows Hachette to make pricing decisions that are rational and reflect the value of our authors’ works.” Harper Collins CEO [...]

First and most importantly, the random winner to the survey was survey no. 1768 who owns a Kindle who made this comment about ebooks and publishers:
I’ve been reading ebooks for a long time and the main things I like are convenience of taking many away from home to read easily and the space saving vs. [...]

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I was reading Rosario’s blog the other day and she was blogging about how much she enjoyed Linnea Sinclair’s Down Home Zombie Blues. As I was reading Rosario’s review, I was thisclose to buying the book but the fact is that Linnea Sinclair’s books just don’t work for me. [...]

In today’s First Page, Laura Kinsale brought up a question in the comments regarding unfamiliar terms in a story.
I have a question, as a writer, about one of the comments. This isn’t a loaded question, or any sort of commentary on this excerpt itself, it’s input for me.
DS said
I had to look up “drafts on [...]

I asked this question of Sarah last week at Borders. My initial response was “the end, of course” because I love that feeling at the end of a good book.  When I pondered this more, though, I came the realization that I am much more excited to start books than I am to finish them.  [...]

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Janet: Reading through the comments on the Dear Author Golden Era poll, they seem to reflect the split in the voting between the 1990s and the 2000s. Those who chose the 1990s seem more like Historical Romance readers, while a number of those favoring the current decade have pointed to [...]

This coming year will see a lot of re issues of older books.  It’s financially convenient for publishers as they’ve already paid the advance on that book.  Sometimes, though, our old favorites simply don’t hold up over time.  Keishon, Avidbookreader, blogged about her recent re-reading of Sandra Brown’s Tiger Prince.  Dated,  Keishon wrote, but still [...]