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

Romantic Times is blogging about Carina Press. The blogger, Nicole, says that the manufacturer limitations is what has prevented her from adopting ebooks. What Nicole is talking about, however, seems to be limitations by the publisher and not the manufacturer:
I know that one of the reasons I have resisted a Kindle or [...]

UPDATE:  Most people think this is a hoax/rumor. And at the Twilight Lexicon, they have a statement from Summit Entertainment:  ““This rumor is certainly NOT true. Please let your readers know.”
Heidi Stanton, a former college roommate of Stephenie Meyer, claims that Twilight and its progeny may be plagiarised from a short story that Stanton wrote [...]

I was looking at my referral links last night and I saw a google search result that landed at Dear Author. The search term was “How does Edward know Bella is his soul mate?” That’s a very good question and I posed it to the twitterati last night. The poll contains some of [...]

Stephenie Meyer sold 8 million copies of her books in December. DECEMBER. 28 million copies have been sold overall. Since Meyer doesn’t plan on writing more Sparkly Vampires and Doormat Girls anytime soon, there will be a vacuum. Who is going to fill it?
Harlequin is giving away another ebook. It’s [...]

Stephen King laid the smackdown on Stephenie Meyer in an interview yesterday.
“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
[Thanks Emmy]
The comments to the above post have turned into an awesome [...]

LA Columnist Sonja Bolle is distressed that 10 year olds are reading the Twilight series because she thinks that it is “one long, bodice-ripping romance.”  Bolle admits to reading, nay “devouring” the series.  My guess is that Bolle hasn’t read one bodice ripping romance because, the Twilight series is all about abstinence (wait until you [...]

Twilight is to be released this week and the stars are out giving interviews left and right and left again.  We have the actress not reading the rest of the series :
Even though all the adorable sour-pussed faces from the new vampire movie Twilight have been signed up for the sequel, New Moon, the movie’s lead, Kristen Stewart, has [...]