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Posts Tagged ‘Rita-Winner’

RITA Reader Ballot

By Jane • May 21st, 2007 • Category: Misc

Do you remember that we are having a RITA related contest? Well, we are. If you fill out a ballot with your guesses as to who will win the RITA, you will be entered in our contest. The winner of the contest (US Residents only because of mailing costs) will recieve a [...]



Interim RITA Reader Ballot Winner ** Updated **

By Jane • Apr 24th, 2007 • Category: Misc

The RITA finalists were announced last month. We wanted to devise a contest that would allow readers to feel more connected to the RITA Award which is considered by romance authors to be the Oscar of the romance genre. Any reader can fill out a ballot and submit their guesses [...]



Excuse Our (my) Mess

By Jane • Apr 15th, 2007 • Category: Misc

So you may have noticed that the blog and the forum were down at various times since Friday. I moved DearAuthor from Bluehost to Media Temple and due to my inexperience, it was kind of a shaky move. But everything seems to be working, including our controversial pink theme [...]



Wherein Jane Is An Ass Again

By Jane • Mar 29th, 2007 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

I laughed a little uncomfortably when I wrote up the The Leopard Prince review. At the end of the story, Georgina loses all her good sense and intelligence, flies off the handle and makes some poor decisions. Much like me. (I liked the book despite that).
When I was writing last Sunday’s article about the [...]



When Love Isn’t Enough

By Jane • Mar 25th, 2007 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

If you were expecting an ebook weekly article, come back next Sunday. We are taking a little detour today.
Last week Barbara Samuel put up a plea at Romancing the Blog for Readers to pay more attention to the RITAs. She titled her post “Why Readers Should Care About the RITA Awards.” I [...]



Tuesday: The Holy Day of Publishing and How It Forms Reader Expectations

By Jane • Mar 20th, 2007 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

I was looking at the March slate of releases a couple months back when I realized that there were a whole slew of really exciting books due for a March release. There were so many that we could barely fit all the reviews in the last week of February and the first couple weeks [...]



REVIEW: I’m Watching You by Karen Rose

By Jane • Dec 14th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Rose:
Geez, I must have my head in the sand/dirt/whatever to have only just now started reading you. Apparently you won the 2005 RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense. Having read this book, I can see why. This is a taut, on the edge of your seat kind of suspense with [...]