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

Welcome to Ace and Roc’s fabulous forthcoming books giveaway, just in time for the holidays!
Thanks again to Dear Author for giving me this opportunity to let you know about some of our terrific upcoming titles. As always, there are too many great books for me to mention all of them, so you can look at [...]

Dear Ms. Thurman,
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I love your Cal Leandros series.  Its blend of fast-paced action, sarcastic humor, and supernatural mayhem should appeal to anyone who’s ever loved the Winchester brothers on Supernatural.  Except in these books, not only do we have the above but we also get a multicultural [...]

Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Rob Thurman writes urban fantasy for ACE.  Her current release, featuring the Leandros brothers, is in stores now. Deathwish made it to #26 on the NYT Bestseller list.  In the [...]

Jia is our YA, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Crossover expert.  Jia came to us a year ago and provides great insight from the otherside of the genre fence.  She’s the one that brought Suzanne Collins to our attention here along with lesser known fantasy authors (or at least lesser known to me) like Rob Thurman.  

THE HUNGER [...]

Madhouse by Rob Thurman is recommended by Jia. (Thurman is a woman if that matters to you and I have to admit I have a pro-female author bias so I thought I would throw that out there). Madhouse is a continuation of a series about two brothers which started with Nightlife and its [...]

Dear Ms. Thurman,
I can’t remember exactly how I first discovered your books. When your first novel, Nightlife, came out a couple years ago, I dismissed it as just another straight urban fantasy. We already have Jim Butcher and Simon R. Green for that. Then I read a couple favorable blog reviews that [...]