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

Thanks to Harlequin, we have extended coupon shopping opportunity!
Now until 31 August 2009 use Coupon Code BLOGSPECIAL for an additional 15% off. It’s not just for Save the Contemporary – it’s all month long.
Thanks Harlequin! It’s shopping time!
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Time to announce the Save the Contemporary winners!
Our blog/email winner, who will receive a LUSH Bath bomb, [...]

Only a few more hours until our Save the Contemporary campaign ends for this month.
First up, with this promotion, thanks to Harlequin EVERYONE wins a hoppin’ big discount!
For the duration of the Save the Contemporary campaign this week only, Harlequin’s digital team is offering an additional 15% off the eBooks at eHarlequin.com, for a total [...]

Our daily winner for Part 2:

Christine Flynna via Twitter
Caffey via email/blog (she sent many an email recommending the post and contest)

Tomorrow on Friday at 9pm EST, we’ll pick our grand prize winner from all who entered, and the grand prize winner will receive a Harlequin cover art bag, a copy of each book, and the [...]

Our daily winner for Part 2:

Janoda via Twitter
Moth via email/blog (she sent many an email recommending the post and contest)

Part two of our Save the Contemporary contest keeps on chugging though and YOU CAN STILL WIN: Every day this week at 9pm EST, two winners a day will be chosen from those who Twitter about [...]

Part one of our Save the Contemporary contest is completed. The following winners will receive a copy of each of the winning books, Hot Under Pressure by Kathleen O’Reilly (review by SB Sarah) and The Magnate’s Make Believe Mistress by Bronwyn Jameson (review by Jane):

Kat
Camilla
Sally
SandyW
Ros
Jenny
Kim
Keira
Meghan B
Kate
Carin

Our daily winner for Part 2:

HockeyVampiress via Twitter
Melonie J [...]

It’s time for another Save the Contemporary campaign, with Dear Author, Smart Bitches, and prizes from Harlequin!
This time, we’re featuring two books – yes, two. Some of the great contemporary stories are found in category romance, so we’ve picked two books that we both really loved.

Hot Under Pressure by Kathleen O’Reilly (review by SB Sarah)
The [...]

We love the contemporary like Damn and Whoa (tm SmartBitch Sarah) so we’ve created a special little online place for them at http://savethecontemporary.com and we’ve run a kind of monthly campaign highlighting a different book.
This month’s book was Lisa Kleypas’ Smooth Talking Stranger which Jane described as a Snoopy book (Happiness is a warm puppy) [...]