Where's the Imagination?
While romance has always had its fair share of silly titles or vague and somewhat interchangable titles, when I go back through my older romances and UBS finds, there seems to be a lot more variety…
Random House Fallout is Hitting Fast
I heard a distressing tale this afternoon. A published and very successful writer with an established and dedicated readership (let’s call her author Number One) met yesterday morning with her editor in New York. Everything was…
Bad Economic News Extends to the Inspirational Market
The bad economic news that we’ve been hearing seems to be extending into the inspirational sector of the market as well. Publisher Thomas Nelson has announced that it is laying off 55 of its staff –…
Amazon and Barnes and Noble Online Pricing: What’s Up With That?
If you haven’t heard by now, there was much outrage in Romanceland in the days before and during the Thanksgiving Day weekend. The issue? The Kindle price for Eloisa James’ When the Duke Returns was reported…
More on the Publisher Situation
While the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly have both reported this week on Harcourt Houghton Mifflin’s decision to freeze acquisitions, there seems to be news of a somewhat more optimistic kind unfolding in other sectors of…
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Freezes Acquisitions
From the Washington Post this morning and as reported Monday on the Publishers Weekly Web site, the publisher has told its editors to stop acquiring books. Several sources site this move as the first time a…
Kindle: Oh, I Believe!
It all started as a result of getting regularly dissed by my local Borders. Let me count the ways: Their complete lack of interest in shelving romance anywhere even remotely close to the lay…