Letters of Opiniongender roles / Letters of Opinion / m/m romance107 Comments
The debate at AAR and elsewhere over m/m books and authors got us to thinking about whether the differences between m/m and m/f romances are as great as some readers on both sides seemed to believe. Four of us here at DA regularly read and review m/m in addition to ... more >
Letters of Opinionauthenticity / Letters of Opinion / multicultural / POC70 Comments
Over the years we’ve had a lot of spirited debates here at Dear Author about questions of authenticity and authority. Who gets to tell the stories of the disadvantaged and the historically silenced? As women, many of us are keenly aware of what it means to have someone more powerful, ... more >
Letters of OpinionLetters of Opinion / Misc54 Comments
The mantra going around last week amongst author blogs was “buy new”. At least one author says to readers Don’t gripe about how they aren’t publishing anything you like if you aren’t buying new books because you gave up your right to vote on what’s being published. Another author said ... more >
Letters of OpinionLetters of Opinion / Paranormal9 Comments
I watched the World Cup Soccer Championship game with Ned on Sunday. Ned and I are soccer neophytes. We know virtually nothing about the game, but we wanted to be part of the 1 billion who watched. The problem is that not one of the announcers took the opportunity to ... more >
Letters of OpinionEloisa-James / Letters of Opinion / Misc2 Comments
On Friday, I posted a video of David Hasselhoff in a terribly cheesy music video. The video is quite entertaining from an “I can’t believe this is real” sort of way. Perhaps this video is so over the top that it is actually good. Perhaps this is the Shatner effect, ... more >
Letters of Opinionbrand / Letters of Opinion2 Comments
HelenKay Dimon has posted an interesting article at Access Romance about the publishers that she likes. The ones she’s loyal to because they’ve delivered good books in the past and that she’ll take a second look at just because of who they are. An interesting concept raised by Ms. Dimon’s ... more >