JaneEssaysAuthor Reader Relationship / Reader Reviews188 Comments

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 >

July 15, 2014

The Agony and Ecstasy of Social Media

JaneBook ReviewsAuthor Promotion / Author Reader Relationship / social media28 Comments

[themify_box style=”light-yellow rounded comment” ]Today two authors debate the issue of social media in writing. In today’s society does a book exist if it is not shared on social media? Is the constant and immediate contact between readers and authors creating a relationship with the book far outside the pages reaching ... more >

February 4, 2014

The Reader’s Ever Changing Hard Limits

JaneLetters of OpinionAuthor Reader Relationship / Reader Habits46 Comments

A few years ago I wrote a post about the reader’s consent. Essentially the argument I made is that authors have to win over the readers’ consent to move on to the next stage in a story. Most debates over books arise because readers have different limits on when they’ll ... more >

JanePublishing NewsAuthor Reader Relationship / Ebooks / iBooks54 Comments

If you read a book and it made you unhappy, then John Green is here to tell you that you are reading the book wrong. See, he’s trying to defend his friend Veronica Roth whose last book in the Divergent trilogy is the subject to intense unhappiness. Fascinating to see ... more >

Guest ReviewerEssaysAuthor Reader Relationship16 Comments

  Inspired by the Goodreads policy change, the podcast on buying reviews and Robin’s interesting articles on free speech, the internet and the romance community, I’ve been thinking a lot about that community; my part of it, and my part in it. Since first getting published in 2001, my publisher’s ... more >

October 15, 2013

Tuesday News: Kobo and WH Smith overreact to the porn titles in their catalogs; A coalition tries to stop Link Rot; Creepy authors trying to collate real life identities of reviewers

JanePublishing NewsAuthor Reader Relationship / Kobo / Link Rot / self-published13 Comments

Yesterday, Kobo pulled all the content from the distributor Draft 2 Digital in response to the complaints retailers were receiving about the incest and beastiality books being self published. Authors refer to this content as Psuedo Incest because it is really about step brothers and step fathers, not blood relatives, ... more >