B Reviewsancient-Rome / Egypt / haiku / Stephanie Draven8 Comments
We briefly enjoyed regular haiku reviews and then our haiku-ist retired. Over Christmas, I found this in my inbox. How fun, right? Bring back the haiku review. Lovely cover art Plus Cleopatra’s daughter Equals auto-buy You know your Romans. Wikipedia research? Not here. The real deal. Young orphan Selene The ... more >
B- ReviewsBooks-on-War / enemies to lovers / greek mythology / Stephanie Draven7 Comments
Dear Ms. Draven: I admit that I haven’t read a book in the Nocturne line since it debuted a couple of years ago. My experience had been that the shorter length category books weren’t very well suited for the paranormal genre because it takes time to build a believable world ... more >
Publishing NewsBorders / HarperCollins / LGBTQ / Literary Criticism / Orbit / Random-House / SourceBooks / Stephanie Draven46 Comments
This is really a week’s worth of stuff in one post so excuse the length: Next week we are going to celebrate National Coming Out Day and the “It Get’s Better” movement started by Dan Savage: ***** With all the layoffs and downsizing, Borders has no need for the space ... more >
First Sale / Interviewsfirst-sale / interview / Stephanie Draven22 Comments
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Stephanie Draven writes Silhouette Nocturnes and has historical fiction, a series of forthcoming novels from Berkley Books featuring Cleopatra's daughter under the name Stephanie Dray. ... more >