B- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / First-Person / Foot in Mouth Disease / illness / London / opposites attract / shy heroComments Off on REVIEW: 13 Dates by Matt Dunn
When Noah Wilson first encounters the quirky, opinionated and very beautiful Angel Fallon, his world is turned upside down. It’s clear she’s not his normal type, but Noah can’t stop thinking about her—which doesn’t bode well for the blind date he’s already late for. Convinced by his friend (and self-professed ... more >
Letters of Opinionbloggers-rights / Foot in Mouth Disease175 Comments
Dear Editor: I read today on your author, Victoria Laurie’s, website that you have been in discussions with her about a voice mail message that you have received from a blogger called NovelReads about a statement Ms. Laurie made on her website. I felt that Ms. Laurie’s accusations of this ... more >
Letters of OpinionAuthor Reader Relationship / Foot in Mouth Disease / Literary Criticism / reviews138 Comments
more cat pictures Last week we saw yet another author/reviewer contretemps in which an author, upset over a review, engages the reviewer in a comically bad mannered way. When we’ve witnessed this in the past, it almost always seems to be over a C review. An average review. A review ... more >
Letters of OpinionDeborah MacGillivray / Foot in Mouth Disease145 Comments
UPDATED: Ms. Laurie has apparently deleted her post. The cached version is here. Victoria Laurie, a professional psychic and author, engaged in an Amazon contretemps not too long after the Deborah Anne MacGillivray. This led to a mass deletion of reviews and comments at Amazon on all sides. Apparently Laurie, ... more >
Book Reviews / Letters of OpinionAmazon / Foot in Mouth Disease147 Comments
more cat pictures I meant to post my Top Ten Things a Publisher Can Do to Help Readers Spend Money this week but over the weekend, an author began to engage readers over at Amazon in a fairly combative manner over a three star, or average, review. I think it ... more >
Publishing NewsFoot in Mouth Disease / genre critique7 Comments
MSNBC decided to run a poll about romance novels in conjunction with its feature of fiction writer Danielle Steele. Why MSNBC jumps from Danielle Steele to romance, I’ll never know but it just goes to show how culturally illiterate the MSNBC poll writers are. Apparently MSNBC believes that romance books ... more >