Publishing NewsArchie comics / BEA / bookstores / DRM / James Patterson / Nintendo / piracy / Self-publishing / YA5 Comments
Author James Patterson To Give $1 Million To Bookstores – In that fine tradition of putting your money where your mouth is, James Patterson is giving grants of up to $15,000 to independent bookstores, likening his effort to the US government’s bailout of banks and automobile manufacturers. The money is ... more >
Publishing Newsaudiobooks / Ebooks / NoiseTrade / Veronica Roth / YA / Zane8 Comments
Penguin Signs 13-Year-Old Author – Jake Marcionette is writing a series featuring sixth grader Jake Ali Mathews, who moves with his family from Florida to Maryland and has to settle into his new school and his new life. The first book in the series is set to publish this month, ... more >
Publishing NewsArt / B&N / Pride-and-Prejudice / science / sensory fiction / Shakespeare / YA10 Comments
Note: Dear Author will be offline tomorrow, Friday, January 31st, to test out our new theme. Please keep your fingers crossed that everything will go smoothly, and in the meantime, visit our Facebook site, where Jane will be giving away books throughout the day. William Shakespeare, the ‘king of infinite space’ ... more >
B- ReviewsFantasy / witch / wizards / YA33 Comments
Dear Readers, Since beloved children’s book author Diana Wynne Jones passed away a few years ago, this review is addressed to you. My husband and I read the classic YA novel Howl’s Moving Castle recently. It was a fun and funny novel and I enjoyed it, but I didn’t love ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / children's lit / dialect / digital book settlement / Fifty Shades / Libraries / YA52 Comments
Is Apple’s E-Book Fight Worth the Trouble? – Apple, Apple, Apple. A succinct summary of the various ways in which Apple has stalled, obstructed, resisted, and otherwise refused to cooperate with the Justice Department investigation and the price fixing suit. Regardless of one’s feelings about the government, this is starting ... more >
B- ReviewsHistorical Fantasy / Magic / Russia / YA / Young-Adult13 Comments
READERS PLEASE NOTE: Since Siege and Storm is the second book in Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy, the review of this book below will by necessity include spoilers for the first book, Shadow and Bone. My spoiler free review of Shadow and Bone can be found here. Dear Ms. Bardugo, Shadow ... more >