Observations From My First RWA
My first trip to the RWA conference felt like complete sensory overload, but in a good way. We kept the live coverage going over at AAR last week, but today I’m finally having a chance to…
More Title Madness
While I have enjoyed some of Susan Wiggs’ contemporaries, I vastly prefer her historicals, especially the wonderful Lord of the Night , which I believe will be coming out in re-release soon, though the author’s website…
And We Thought American Book Review Controversies Got Contentious…
Dagestan is a province in the Northern Caucasus of Russia. (Don’t let the “Northern” in its name fool you. By Russian standards, that’s in the south.) It is known as the site of some terrorist activity,…
Books with Buzz: Sherry Thomas Interview and Giveaway (Contest Now Closed)
I don’t think it’s much of a secret to AAR regulars that I love books by Sherry Thomas. I am so very impressed with her work, in fact, that, along with Elizabeth Hoyt and Joanna…
Rita Nominations: Sandy and Lynn’s Take
Sandy’s Take Results are in and the dust is settled. The headline for me is I had fewer WTF reactions than in previous years. Still:
2009 Rita Nominations
The calls are going out today to 2009 Rita and Golden Heart finalists. Official results are going up at the RWA site and Twitter is also hopping. Just search for hashtag #rwanoms for a live feed….
Creative Book Promotion
At least in the romance genre, it has become a standard technique for authors to hold regular giveaways in exchange for readers signing up for the author’s newsletter, with the usual prize a couple of free…
Can One Really Condense a Full-length Novel into a Book Trailer?
Whenever I’m looking forward to a book release, I always monitor the message boards very carefully for any information—interviews with the authors, excerpts, reviews, etc. Lately, it’s been Smooth Talking Stranger, Lisa Kleypas’s upcoming contemporary romance,…
Kindle 2: iCool
I was already in love with the original Kindle. Now with Kindle 2 and the new iPhone app my love affair is now epic. For my money, Kindle 2 is the Don Draper of eReaders. The Sawyer. The Eric…
Today is the Last Day of Publication for Book World
And somehow I just can’t bring myself to mourn. I’ve read the Washington Post almost daily since I was a teenager and I am, not surprisingly, a bookie. And I was from the moment I first…