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Making the New York Times remains one of the landmarks of an author’s career. Enn Bocci, publicist, reached out to a number of authors to ask them where they where when they received the news of this occasion and I thought it would be fun to share these series of ... more >

September 3, 2014

DA3 Interview & Giveaway: Back to School

Alison AtleeContests/Giveaways / Features / Interviews / MiscContemporary romance / historical romance / inspirational romance / western21 Comments

The school year isn’t fresh and new everywhere at the beginning of September, but it’s a good excuse to bring you some books with peeks inside the classroom. These stories also share the theme of communities facing conflicts of values and culture: In Merry Farmer’s historical In Your Arms, a ... more >

Alison AtleeContests/Giveaways / InterviewsContemporary / Erotic-Romance / inspirational / RITA / RWA34 Comments

Welcome to this year’s interview with the finalists in the Best First Book category of the RWA Rita Awards. Changes in the contest scoring this year mean that (among other things) all five novels are double finalists: Elizabeth Byler Younts’ Promise to Return and Carla Laureano’s Five Days in Skye in ... more >

May 7, 2014

DA3 Interview: Favorite Conference Speakers

Alison AtleeConventions / Features / Interviews19th century / Category / Cathryn Parry / Contemporary / Courtney Milan / Dani Collins / Grace Burrowes / Historical / Historical Romances / RWA8 Comments

With reader and writer “conference season” upon us, I thought I’d bring to Dear Author a few authors who also make great presenters on panels and workshops. Grace Burrowes was a wonderful discovery to me last year–I didn’t know her when I went to see a panel of headliner historical ... more >

May 6, 2014

Interview & Giveaway with Meljean Brook

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Jane Full disclosure. I’ve been reading Meljean Brook long before she was a published author. She had a blog and wrote about fun (and kind of dorky) stuff. My favorite pieces were the Missy related ones (http://meljeanbrook.com/category/missy/). Missy is the preteen? early teen? alter ego of Meljean who loved reading ... more >

November 6, 2013

Interview: Lauren Hawkeye & the Authors of UNRAVELED

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This past spring, I enjoyed offering a DA interview on Brenda Novak’s annual auction to benefit diabetes research. Lauren Hawkeye (who also writes as Lauren Jameson) submitted the winning bid (thank you!), and I’m happy to host her here today with Unraveled, a box set released this week. Joining Lauren ... more >