RWA 2009 National Conference Begins Wednesday
This year Publisher Lynn Spencer and I will be there.  If you will be too, here’s our open invitation: Please  join Lynn, me and other AAR readers in the bar at the conclusion of the Wednesday,…
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…
Hey, Did You Know We're All Irrelevant?
That’s right. Avon Books still believes that those of us out there writing internet reviews and reading them before we buy books don’t make a difference in the sales numbers. I was a little startled when…
Small Publishers – Bringing Variety to the Romance Market
I grew up in a smaller city that was a little lacking in the movie theater area. We had choices, but almost all of those choices were mainstream blockbuster films from the major studios. If you…
My First RWA
Okay – I’m really going to do it. Every year, I’ve read the reports of my AAR colleagues and have wondered what it would be like to go to RWA. So this year, I and my…
Recession? Apparently not at Harlequin
Torstar Corporation, Harlequin’s parent corporation announced their 4th quarter and 2008 full-year earnings yesterday. The corporation as a whole suffered losses in the hundreds of millions, which they sounded surprisingly sanguine about in their press release.
Authors | Publishing | Reading
Extra, extra! Read All About It! Roberta Gellis, Juno and more Elizabeth Elliott!
This seems to have been a week for all manner of random bits and snippets of news. So, I thought I’d share a few.
Not Everything Erotic is Romantic
As many of you know, I moderate AAR’s romance discussion list, AARlist2. In the past, I’ve discussed on the forums about how some authors have abused AARlist2 as a promotion tool. Well, it happened again. Recently,…
Royalties on Used Books?
Think back to the last time you went to a used book store When they checked you out, did they scan the books and track the ISBNs Did they update their stock on their in-store computers…
I've Been Looking for the Silver Lining and Perhaps Romance is it..
I keep reading that publishers are completely in the hole and yet, whenever I’m in the bookstore, it seems like there are practically lines out the door. Granted, there seem to be a lot of readers…