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April 23, 2014

Wednesday News: Women keeping boys from reading, men reading Romance, Comcast growing again, and Amazon planning Kindlephone

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / cable / canon / children's literature / digital media / gender / genre critique / Kindle / Smartphone27 Comments

Note from Jane: We’ve been having a number of server issues for the past few months related to spambots. At the advice of our host, I’ve installed a simple math captcha. If you want to bypass the captcha, you can register with DA using this link here. I’ll add these links ... more >

April 15, 2014

To warn or not to warn, and is that even the question?

JanetLetters of Opiniongenre critique / Publishers / rape fantasy / tropes / warning labels70 Comments

As some of you may know, Riptide author Amelia Gormley recently stirred some controversy on her blog regarding book warnings. Her dubcon f**ck or die m/m erotica (or erotic Romance, depending on your confidence in publisher tagging), Strain, is the specific subject of her post, in which she argues a ... more >

January 7, 2014

The not-so-fine lines between critiquing and policing

SunitaLetters of Opinioncriticism-of-romance / genre critique / reader communities / reader policing6 Comments

There was much discussion this past week about critiquing and policing in online communities. Robin’s post last week kicked off a lively discussion in the comments and on Twitter, and I started to see examples of the tension she highlighted in post throughout the week, here at Dear Author and ... more >

November 11, 2013

Monday News: Pinkingwashing books for your kids; 3D printed organs; Bad sex finalists announced

JanePublishing News3D Printing / censorship / genre critique31 Comments

Child-Proofing ‘Harry Potter’ – When I first saw this article I thought it was satire. A mother changes words when reading a book to her child. She calls it pink washing. For instance, she was going to read Harry Potter to her five year old and started changing the plot ... more >

September 5, 2013

Thursday News: eReatah subscription site launches; Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald; Romance readers dissed again

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / genre critique / Kindle / subscriptions17 Comments

eReatah E-book Subscription Venture Launches Beta – “eReatah” is a new ebook subscription site that will offer books from “Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon & Schuster, Workman, Sourcebooks, Ingram Content Group, Diversion Books, Open Road Integrated Media, and others” for a pretty hefty subscription fee. $16.99 will get you two books ... more >

September 3, 2013

The Vanishing Closed-Door Romance

SunitaLetters of OpinionErotic-Romance / erotica / Explicit-Sex / genre critique / m/m romance63 Comments

A while back I was listening to an interview on Hard Talk, the BBC World Service interview show. The host was talking with the director of a new film version of Great Expectations. When pushed, the director said his movie was better than the classic David Lean version even though ... more >

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