Dear DA readers, When I think of my long romance-reading experience, one of the names that comes first to my mind is Betty Neels. I’ve watched the resurgence of interest in the books of the late Betty Neels with both amusement and bemusement. When I first started reading romance boards and then ... more >
Earlier this year, Liz Carlyle announced on Facebook that she had turned in her last historical romance to Avon. She said that she might self publish some older material or a Kemble based mystery (Kemble was a butler to one of her heroes and then appeared throughout the series ... more >
I think it was Kassia Krozser formerly of Booksquare who coined the phrase “circle of trust” as it relates to your book reader friends who you rely upon to give you recommendations. No reader can be without that circle. One of the reasons we have open threads like yesterday is so ... more >
We here at Dear Author have always supported anonymity and pseudonymity. We have allowed people to use pennames and alias in the comments even when it meant they would be hurling insults at us, even when they engaged in sock puppetry (by changing their alias but posting from the same IP ... more >
This article at Salon had me seeing red. The title is “Americans Are Getting Apathetic About Huge Data Breaches.” My first reaction was “Are you [expletive] KIDDING ME? The context was the massive, massive breach of J.P. Morgan. Articles here (Fast Company) and here (NY Times). Time downplays it here. ... more >
Shades of Gray or, as I like to say, #666666, #333333, and #999999 Today I’d like to talk about anonymity. Should we have it? Why or why not? If you’d like to be anonymous, for good or ill, I’ll talk about ways you can achieve this. Hypothetical Situation One A ... more >