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December 6, 2015

Dear Author in 2016

JaneMiscAbout-Us20 Comments

In the coming weeks, the Dear Author reviewers will be posting their Best of Lists. We’d love to hear from the readers here about their books of the year. If we haven’t reviewed it, maybe you’ll consider submitting a guest review for the DA readership to enjoy. Next year, we’re ... more >

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March 24, 2015

A letter to the DA Readership

JaneMiscAbout-Us347 Comments

Dear DA Readers: As you know, I’ve been running Dear Author for almost ten years. When I started the blog with Jayne, it was from a very naïve reader point of view. No one is more surprised at the evolution of Dear Author than I am because it had been ... more >

September 30, 2014

Ellora’s Cave v Dear Author Update

JaneMiscAbout-Us / Elloras-Cave37 Comments

Today there was a temporary injunction hearing.  During the hearing the judge did not grant the injunction, but did request that we come back for a more thorough hearing, where we would be able to provide evidence  in our defense. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Therefore, If you are ... more >

September 27, 2014

Ellora’s Cave Sues Dear Author

JaneMiscAbout-Us / Elloras-Cave239 Comments

Ellora’s Cave has filed suit in Summit County Ohio against Dear Author and me personally for the blog post here recounting the problems that others have discussed publicly about the company.  EC is seeking injunctive relief (which I presume means I stop blogging about them), monetary damages in excess of $25,000 ... more >

June 11, 2014

Winners, comments, and other businessy stuff

JaneMiscAbout-Us23 Comments

I was on vacation for a couple of weeks and so here I am to announce some belated winners (who have been emailed). For the first edition Windflower, our winner is: a Rafflecopter giveaway I hope you all enjoyed the bookchat we had on The Windflower. It was really fun ... more >

May 12, 2014

Dear Author Comment Issues

JaneMiscAbout-Us9 Comments

Dear Author is the target of a huge amount of comment and link spam. It may be because of our high Google Page Rank or because we’ve got great content or it might just be serendipitous. Whatever the reason, it’s causing us to have huge traffic server problems. WPEngine has ... more >

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