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

Sydney Morning Herald has a nice article about romance in conjunction with Beyond Heaving Bosoms, a guide to romance written by SB Sarah and SD Candy.
So thank Eros for two Americans, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan, who dreamed up Mavis for their book Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels. It’s an [...]

Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Today’s first sale story comes from well known bloggers, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan.  Their nonfiction, women’s studies, literary criticism, comedy, technical manual, work of art can be found in [...]

What can I say that
Has not already been said
By Joan’s fab review?
Not a non-fic fan
Was not expecting to like
As much as I did
For me, the best joke?
The list of eye-colors for
Building a hero
Best, that is, until
I saw the ‘heroines list’
Then I wept laughter
But…then I kept going
And giggled at ‘alpholes’ and
The dictionary [...]

Dear Ms. Wendell and Ms. Tan.
I spent Wednesday through Saturday last week at the Popular Culture Association Conference in New Orleans attending all the Romance Area panels. There were papers about domesticity as it constructs Eve’s character in JD Robb’s novels, and the moral construction of Sookie Stackhouse and the vampires [...]

For twenty four hours, BooksonBoard will offer Beyond Heaving Bosoms for 25% off beginning on April 14 10am cst to April 15 10am cst.
Along with 20% off list price all titles by these authors whose books are mentioned in the book:

Stephanie Laurens
JD Robb/ Nora Roberts
Jude Deveraux
Kelley Armstrong
Patricia Briggs

The promo code for readers will be “SmartOnBoard”. [...]

Mariah Jovan and David Nygren interview Sarah Wendell about writers and money.
Twitter is the new fad amongst everyone and their cousin including John Mayer. Apparently as a result of John Mayer spending too much time twittering, Jennifer Aniston is moving on. (shameless gossip piece tangentially related to writing and publishing because the twitterati is [...]

Hello, Dear Author readers! I don’t know how much you know about me, Candy, Jane, and the other women who run Smart Bitches and Dear Author, but we are some busy, busy women. Jane and I along with Dr. Sarah and many others are parents with full time jobs outside the home, and in between [...]