JanetPublishing Newsanniversary / Avon / book banning / China / churches / diversity / fairy tale / Free Speech / Hong Kong / publishing / Race / scholastic / slavery / Taiwan / weddings / Woodiwiss6 Comments

One of Hong Kong’s missing booksellers just reappeared to confess to an 12-year-old crime – With Sweden increasing its interest in the disappearance of one of the missing publishers, Gui Minhai was shown on state-run television confessing to a drunk-driving accident in which he allegedly killed a woman more than ten years ago. ... more >

February 3, 2014

Monday News: Apple behaves badly (again), Avon tries out a new type of story, Rowling regrets Hermione coupling, and movie-talk as marriage counseling

JanetPublishing NewsApple / Avon / divorce / Erotic-Romance / Google / Harry-Potter / J.K. Rowling / marriage / tech19 Comments

The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers’ wages – This story provides some of the detail around a class action lawsuit filed against more than 100,000 Silicon Valley tech workers, whose salaries were artificially suppressed to the tune of $9 billion. Apple, Google, Adobe, ... more >

April 26, 2013

Friday News: First World Problems

JanePublishing NewsAgency pricing / Avon / digital publishing / New Adult24 Comments

  I came across this picture and this video while browsing Reddit.  Rajesh Kumar Sharma founded a free school in the slums of India.  Their schoolroom is a space under a bridge.  Their blackboards are concrete walls.  First world problems are anything that doesn’t include having to gain an education ... more >

November 7, 2012

The DA3 Interview & Giveaway: Lois Lanes

Alison AtleeContests/Giveaways / Features / InterviewsAvon / Contemporary / Harlequin / Historical Romances / inspirational / Liz Fielding / Regency England42 Comments

Maybe not exactly Lois Lane, but each book in today’s DA³ Interview features a heroine who works at a newspaper. Here, in order by chronological setting, are the books:                           In Seducing Mr. Knightly, Maya Rodale concludes the Regency-set Writing ... more >

October 30, 2012

JOINT REVIEW: A Notorious Countess Confesses by Julie Anne Long

KatiB+ Reviews / B- ReviewsAvon / Historical / opposites attract12 Comments

Dear Ms. Long, Dabney and I are both fans of your work and we both enjoyed your latest Pennyroyal Green novel, A Notorious Countess Confesses. I, however, liked it more than Dabney did and thought it would be interesting to discuss the book with her. A Notorious Countess Confesses continues ... more >

October 16, 2012

Avon Romance to debut ReadingSocial App and DRM free ebooks

JanePublishing NewsAvon8 Comments

Avon Romance, an imprint of HarperCollins, was the first to drop agency pricing and is now ready to go DRM free for some books. Tor recently announced that its books would be DRM free. Tor is an imprint of Macmillan. This is tremendous progress.  I’m just going to post the ... more >