Letters of OpinionReader Opinions43 Comments
I received this email and I thought a lot of readers might feel this way. With Roma’s permission, I’ve republished it for response. Forgive me if this is not appropriate, but I wondered if it was possible to tap into the collective wisdom of the dear author world to help ... more >
Letters of Opinionguest-blogger / Reader Opinions148 Comments
Once upon a time, I accidentally read every romance Georgette Heyer ever wrote. My Grandmother had a box of them in her attic – I still remember those yellow-grey dust jackets and the faint smell of damp that rose from the pages – and I was still too young to ... more >
Letters of Opinionreader communities / Reader Opinions / Reader Reviews / reader-tools74 Comments
As more authors bypass traditional publishing to bring their products directly to the consumer, the greater the risk is to the reader that she wastes her money (albeit a low amount of it) and her time (possibly more precious) on a sub standard product. The benefit of a book ... more >
Letters of Opinionbook prices / Reader Opinions / Reader Rights267 Comments
Although I’m not exactly a devoted reader of John Scalzi’s Whatever blog, a Twitter retweet last week drew my attention to a recent post, in which he announces that readers protesting ebook prices on his “Big Idea” posts will have their comment deleted: Why? Primarily because here at the ... more >
Letters of OpinionAuthor Reader Relationship / Reader Opinions / Reader Rights125 Comments
Last month, Sunita sent me a link to a book inspired by a schoolteacher in Paris named Daniel Pennac. Pennac had created a readers’ list of rights to encourage young people to read. This list was combined with illustrations by Quentin Blake and then published. The U.S. version has only ... more >
C- ReviewsBDSM / Beauty-and-the-Beast / Fairy-Tales / forced-seduction / Rape / rape fantasy / Reader Opinions30 Comments
Dear Ms. Paris, Around the time we were having the discussion of rape fantasies here at DA, Jane asked for recommendations of books similar to Cara McKenna’s Willing Victim, and your novella, Petals and Thorns, came up on Twitter. Reader MaryK, who hadn’t read it, thought it might fit the ... more >