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

Dear Ms. Shalvis,
Slow Heat is the first book by you that I’ve read, and hoo-boy, I’ve been missing out. Slow Heat is captivating from page one, and I might have even gotten a little teary-eyed near the end of the story—it is exactly what a romance story should be: believable characters with challenges in their [...]

Dear Ms. Warren:
Emily Saunders was in Elk Crossing for “a wedding she didn’t want to attend with far too many of her family and friends asking nosy questions about her own continuing single status” when her hotel becomes infested with bed bugs. Another traveler at the hotel is Jonah Betts playing in his Old [...]

Dear Ms. Sorenson:
I have read your category novels and thus I was excited to make the transition to full length mass market novels.   This book had very real characters and very steamy love scenes. I found the suspense to take kind of a back seat to the deception/romance story and that, at times, the [...]

I haven’t been watching SportsCenter lately so I missed this commercial of Stephen King serving as a ghostwriter for the anchors.
Sports Center Kingby bsap11
It’s a better bit than the Amex commercial he did:

Dear Ms. Mallery:
The benefit of reading books out of order is you don’t get all that messy character build up. Yes, that is a bit tongue in cheek, but the truth is, if I had read Sweet Talk first, I don’t know if I would have liked Sweet Spot as much [...]

Strike Zone by Kate Angell
I love sports so any half way decent sports book is going to please me. I give this caveat because there is probably alot wrong with this book (including the baseball stuff) but I still enjoyed it. I think it was a combination of Sports + Estranged lovers = [...]

Dear Mom:
I am going to buy this book for you for Christmas. I know you aren’t a Packer fan and that your idea of relaxation does not include anything that is sports related, but I think this is the perfect book for you. Well, okay, maybe it is more the perfect book for [...]