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

More plagiarism from authors and journalists.
NY Times has another reporter who has admitted to lifting text from other journalists, specifically from the Wall Street Journal. He apologized and said he thought it was his own material. Slate made up its own list of excuses by plagiarists.
But apologies might be a [...]

There is a superlative article at Publisher’s Marketplace about the windowing, agency model, pricing, and the future of digital books.  Most of the comments are made by Madeline McIntosh by Random House.  She talks in a very thoughtful and meaningful way about the challenges publishers are facing today and how quickly the landscape is changing. [...]

Jason Pinter wonders whether being online and so accessible removes the mystique of an author and thereby reduces one’s ability to sell books.
****
More authors are getting into the casual gaming platform.  Orchid Games released Heartwild Solitaire Classic and recruited a few authors to write short stories that players are allowed to read after winning a [...]

I ordered a bunch of Harlequin Stationary goods that feature the vintage covers.  The stationary goods include little matchbook notepads, bound composition notebooks and address books. I liked the address books the least. They have a spiral binding and I found them to be a little too bulky.  My favorites are the little matchbook notepads. [...]

The winners of the CL Wilson, Queen of Song and Souls are as follows:

Pamk
stephanie
Rexe
Julie
Sharon

I have sent you an email.
****
Inside the Higher Ed blog has another piece on technology and scholarship. This time, Alex Golub laments the shift of readers from paper texts to digital texts arguing that scholarship includes making the texts part of [...]

I woke up and Twitter was alive with the news that Simon & Schuster was making a huge change to its organizational structure. Simon Spotlight Entertainment and Pocket Books will be reconfigured. All the hardcovers and trade books that were once Pocket Books or SSE will now be Gallery Books. Pocket Books will [...]

Confirmation of the layoffs of three Simon & Schuster editors has been made. (We had some concerns about layoffs on Monday). News of the Star Trek editor had leaked out last week with a suggestion that there were others in the offing. Yesterday publisher Louise Burke sent an email notice that Maggie Crawford along [...]