Blog Archive
Eagerly Awaiting for May
AAR Staff again weighs in with which coming May books they are dying to read. Title and Author Reviewer To Beguile a Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt Lynn, Heather, Lee, Rike, Lea, Rachel, Jane, Abi, Katie, Ellen…
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.…
The Delights of Book Festivals
While I haven’t been to RWA, I have been able to celebrate books and reading in a more local arena. I have spent the past few days attending numerous events at the Virginia Festival of the…
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,…
How Well do Category Romances Age?
With the publication of Harlequin’s Famous Firsts Collection, I recently read two romances from the 1980s, Debbie Macomber’s The Matchmakers and Anne Stuart’s Tangled Lies. Though Tangled Lies has a suspense plot, it is less prominent,…