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

Dear Mrs. Connolly,
At last, at last. The continuation of the series faithful fans have been waiting for. It all started years ago with “Yorkshire,” “Devonshire,” “Venice” and “Harley Street” as we watched the aristocratic Richard Kerre, heir to the Earldom of Southland, and Rose Golightly, daughter of the gentry, fall in love at first [...]

Dear Ms. Maxfield.
I listed this book as one or my Top Books of 2009, so I should do a review of it. I had such fun rereading it.
I love meta books: books that are enacting the very thing they’re about as they’re relating it. Books about romance authors are a favorite of mine (Jayne Ann [...]

First up is the news that Angela James, former executive editor of Samhain, is joining the Quartet Press folks. I think QP means business, no? In other QP news, Anne Frasier aka Teresa Weir is going to be releasing Bad Karma in ebook form through Quartet. Under the penname of Teresa Weir, [...]

Dear Ms. Holley:
I bought this ebook because it was a new release from Samhain and because I found you entertaining and interesting on Twitter. (I think we shared a bad attitude Twitter day). I hadn’t realized when I bought and read it that it had been reviewed by Sarah over at SmartBitches. While [...]

Buy 2 or more Harlequin eBooks from Sony Store on Wednesdays & you’ll receive a code for a free ebook.
Orbit’s $1.00 title is Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson
The following are Forever $1.99 titles from Grand Central.  Grand Central makes these deals available to all etailers who carry the Forever ebooks but not all etailers [...]

Dear Ms. Mitchell.
This book reads like what I imagine being inside a guy’s head must be like. Lots of stonewalling, lots of mixed motivations, lots of confused emotions. This ability you have to get emotions perfectly right and to show how they are so very wrong-headed is both the beauty and the problem with this [...]

Dear Ms Davies,
I’ve always enjoyed westerns – the genre is the first that I began reading when I came back to romance – and cowboys so a modern version of this old faithful attracts me as well. And given that I’ve started watching PBR events, your book was a timely find.
As Chris LeDoux and Garth [...]