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December 23, 2010

Poll: Would you read a book featuring protagonists of non English speaking origin?

JanePollpoll30 Comments

Primarily the books published in English are about English speaking characters.   Is there a market for stories about characters who speak another language?   And would it really matter if the story is written in English (i.e. the dialogue is all translated?)

November 23, 2009

Poll: Movies and Books

JaneFeatures / Pollmovie adaptation / poll26 Comments

New Moon was released this past weekend and grossed a whopping $140.7 million. Record shattering.   New Moon also debuted at No. 5 on the NYT Bestseller Children’s list and spent 11 consecutive weeks on the list. There is obviously overlap between the readers and movie goers.   So I ask you, ... more >

November 1, 2009

Con Artist Protagonists

JaneFeatures / Pollcon-artist / poll56 Comments

JMC posted last week about having problems with con artist protagonists. I’ve enjoyed the occasional assassin book such as Kelley Armstrong’s Nadia Stafford series or Barry Eisler’s John Rain series. Jenny Crusie seems to love the morally ambiguous protagonist with books like Welcome to Temptation, Faking It, and Agnes and ... more >

October 15, 2009

Can the locale of a book affect your interest in reading it?

JanePollpoll46 Comments

I was emailing with someone yesterday about books set in Minneapolis such as Sunshine by Robin McKinley, War for the Oaks by Emma Bull, contemporaries from Susan Johnson and Connie Brockway; the super fabulous Monkeewrench mystery books by PJ Tracy (they have a new one coming out next year!).    ... more >

September 16, 2009

POLL: Is it important that you can pronounce character names?

JanePollcharacter-development / poll67 Comments

There is so much I could write about in terms of names in books (and maybe that will be an upcoming Tuesday post) but for today, we have a poll inspired by author Christina Dodd who tweeted today: “For you as a reader, is it important that you can pronounce ... more >

September 3, 2009

Poll: What do you like in your heroines?

JanePollJoan-Wolf / poll / Tessa Dare34 Comments

To give equal time to the women, I present the heroine poll. Do you like your heroines perfect or flawed, physically? Personally, I like both but if I had to choose (and I am making you if you want to vote) for the physically flawed heroine because perfection can be ... more >

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