Dear Ms. Banks:
I know you have a list of books you think I should read that you wrote and books you think I will despise but I can’t recall where this one fell on the list. Nikki has wanted JT Summers for as long as she remembered wanting a man but she’s always been [...]

Hunting Love is a series of novellas offered by Samhain which feature shapeshifters of Felidae. Like all Samhain themed novellas, the books share a very similar look so that the reader can easily identify the connection. I read three of the four. * These books are related only by the [...]

Dear Ms. Bauer:
I’ve had this in my TBR pile since Keishon’s review last year. I’ve dusted it off (metaphorically since it is an ebook) for Keishon’s monthly TBR challenge. While I agree with some of Keishon’s points (particularly on the extensive world building), I found the romance to be forced in many places.
Dr. [...]

Dear Ms. Samuels,
This book has a great beginning with a different plot. In a book world overpopulated with vampires and werewolves, it was something totally new to me. You give us interesting characters - a flawed heroine, a Japanese hero and Tom, who’s a ghost. It starts wonderfully and then, unfortunately, goes totally overboard [...]

Dear Ms. Weaver:
It has been a long time (or so it seems) since your last release and I have anxiously awaited it. The result may be a case of missed expectations. This book had a fun premise but was weak in the execution.
Best friends, Iris and Russ are snuggled up together on Halloween [...]

Dear Mrs. Arkins,
My decision to try another of your books coincided nicely with Samhain’s offer of this novel. It’s longer length, screwball comedy feel and more contemporary setting are a 180 degree contrast with the historical novella “Don’t Fence Me In” and gave me a good chance to see what else your writing has to [...]

Dear Mrs Connolly,
I know we at DA (okay, me in particular) have harshed on some of your latest paranormal books but with “Met by Chance” I can happily say you’re cooking with gas again. After finishing this, I need to go back and try the first two books in this “Triple Countess” trilogy from [...]

Dear Ms. Banks:
I know that alot of people give up on authors after one or two books. I also know that I have “hot button” issues that will make me leave an author behind even after one book, or a portion of a book. I had real issues with the portrayal of the [...]

After refocusing its efforts on romance, Samhain re-opens its doors. It looks like sexy is the focus with five out of the seven releases this week are Red Hots.

Dear Ms Barrett,
As I turned my ebook reader off after finishing this book, I was debating with myself over the grade. I finally opted for a D grade just because you did have the guts to give us a hero who really was bad. While many authors try to make the hero a dark, tortured [...]

Dear Ms. Drennen,
There’s no way to sugarcoat this review. I found “Mauvelous” to be just ghastly. Sorry but that’s the word that comes to mind. This book is bad. It’s supposed to be about some agents from a security firm called Aztec. I have no idea what they do but mention was made of villains [...]

Samhain announced a week or so ago that it was closed for submissions. When it re-opens, it will be accepting only romance oriented submissions. I would dearly love to see more urban fantasy romance. The full text of the new announcement follows:
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When we re-open for submissions, we will be refocusing the company's [...]

Apparently Samhain Publishing is closed once again for submissions but is looking for editors who don’t have an interest in writing. Sounds like Samhain is growing but needs the right staff to move forward.

Dear Ms Dane,
Your novella arrived at a perfect time. Both my Christmas trees are up and decorated (with lots of help from my children) and I’m really moving into the holiday mood. This is a great story to tuck into spare reading time between parties, cooking and other seasonal activities
I guess the plot could be [...]

If you have been paying attention this last week, you will have read some eye brow raising posts from and about epublishers, unfortunately, few of it good. The fact is that because of the low entries to barriers in the e publishing industry (i.e., lack of funding), many epublishing companies are started by individuals [...]

Samhain and Kensington has announced (will announce) a deal today at BEA which will mark increased exposure for Samhain and Kensington’s move into the steamier side of romance. Kensington and Samhain are jointly creating a Samhain imprint, like Brava or Zebra or Aphrodisia is an imprint.
Kensington will be publishing a Samhain imprint of one [...]

Jaid Black, owner of Ellora’s Cave, mentioned in her previous interview that she thought the NY move into e-publishing would have difficulties because authors want to see themselves in print. In the Triskelion drama of the past week, one thing was clear and that was Triskelion appeared to over extend itself in attempting to [...]

Dear Ms James,
I read the first review you have up on your blog and that, plus having peeked at the ending, had already told me that this isn’t a standard romance story. Some people might be put off trying it at this point but I hope that they’ll keep reading this letter and decide to [...]

Angie W, Executive Editor of Samhain Publishing, brought a new ebookstore to our attention last week: All Romance Ebooks. All Romance Ebooks or “ARe” opened its doors on November 1, 2006, and while it took a while to get my attention I appreciate it didn’t go around and spam comment on all of [...]

Samhain Publishing exploded onto the romance and erotic fiction market in November 2005. In little less that a year and a half, it had multiple books selling 5,000 copies or more rendering it eligible for RWA recognition. Samhain received that just last week, in March 2007. Angela James is its Executive Editor [...]

Samhain Publishing has receieved RWA Publisher Recognition which means that one of its titles sold 5,000 copies in a single year. I’ll speculate that one or more of the following titles sold the requisite number:

Blackmailed by AnnMarie McKenna. While this book was not my personal favorite, I saw it [...]

Samhain Publishing graciously offered DearAuthor three gift certificates of $5.00. The winners are 3, 5, 16 (picked by Ned). I will email Samhain with your email addresses. The winners were picked at random from the 18 comments left during last Sunday’s Ebook Weekly article. Ebook lovers may want to visit [...]

The lads at Gearlog and Teleblog are great believers of multi function devices. Multi function devices do it all: it’s a cell phone, camera, calendar, contact, ebook reader all in one. Gearlog opines that the reason that women tend to buy a cell phone separate from a PDA is the ubiquitous purse. Of [...]

Samhain has been in business for almost a year (if I’m reading their “about us” section correctly). They publish ebooks and print books ranging from short stories to plus novels ($2.50-$6.50 ebook prices). Samhain has two yahoo groups, Samhain News (announcements) and Samhain Café (chat). They state that their policy is to sell ebooks for [...]

Dear Ms. Laurentson:
I read Pack Challenge twice before writing this review. First time I read it, I find it fresh and enjoyable. You have a very modern vibe about your books. Your characters interact in keeping with your world construct. The characters are earthy, with spicy language and corresponding spicy attitudes.
The [...]

Dear Ms. Sheridan and Ms. Cain:
Jayne and I decided to both read your book and then get together and chat about it. The end of the chat is spoiler heavy so we’ve encased the end part in spoiler quotes. For those who read the news feed, please beware that this is a spoiler [...]

Dear Ms. McKenna:
It’s a bit ironic that I would write the following because yours is a story where I would recommend to readers to skip the story and just read the sex scenes. Because your sex scenes are pretty good. It’s when the three of the characters step outside the bedroom, or dressing room, [...]

Dear Ms. TorinoTenorio:
Jorrie Spencer mentioned on her blog (in the comments no less) that your book was inching its way up the bestseller list at Samhain. I went to your blog and saw that the book was a friends to lovers theme. I love those. Plus it also had a Pygmalion thread. [...]

Dear Ebook Publishers,
Do you people not want readers to purchase books from you? It certainly seems like it. I decided to buy 6 books, 2 from Samhain, 2 from Triskelion, 1 from Cerridwen and 1 from Liquid Silver. By the way Liquid Silver people, this is what is listed on your dl page

Liquid Siver [...]

Dear Ms. Leigh:

I know that we have been harshing on you here and I thought maybe we haven’t given you a fair shake. Just because I was totally icked out by your erotica version of the 7 Brides for 7 Brothers concept (where instead of singing and dancing in the snow, the brothers are [...]