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

Dear. Ms. Willig,
I kind of lost track of this book earlier in the year when it was released in hardback. Now, I can make up for that at the trade paperback release. Since it’s been almost two years since I read book 4 (Crimson Rose), it took me a little while to get back into [...]

Dear Ms. Hunter:
Ravishing in Red begins a set of stories about a home for beguines. As the book describes it, “They were common in medieval France. Lay-women would live together as we do. Some would take employment outside the walls, and none took vows, but they lived communally.” After the war, many women [...]

Dear Ms. Greiman:
I think of myself as a big fan of the Beauty and the Beast tale, but I can’t help but wonder if we readers are being oversaturated with the retelling of this popular myth. Charming the Devil is the third entry in the Witches of Mayfair trilogy (and given that it is [...]

Dear Ms. Smith,
Your comedic trad Regencies are always a delight for me. There are some that have had me cackling with glee as I read them since I love it when an author can turn the standard Regency conventions upside down – or at least twist ‘em a little.
Miss Marion Mathieson takes no [...]

Dear Ms. Justiss,
You’ve been writing Regency set stories for years now so by now, I’m sure you’re more than familiar with all the conventions, the standard plots, the trope characters, all the things we’re used to seeing in this historical category. Well, I am too so when I come across something different, I’m liable [...]

Dear Ms. Wolf:
I re-read your book recently in preparation for a year end list.  I was shocked when I checked the DA Archives and did not see a review for it.  I had to rectify that immediately.  His Lordship’s Mistress is one of my favorite books and your work in the Signet Regency line was really [...]

Dear Ms. Michaels,
If the purpose of the novella “How to Woo a Spinster” was to get me to buy this full length novel, it worked. But as I started to read How to Tempt a Duke, I wondered if I would get through it. Let’s see…Regency era, Duke hero, feisty younger sister, heroine with Dark [...]