When I first read this article in Time magazine, I thought for sure it was a hoax.A Google widget to protect yourself from emailing drunken messages over the internets? Surely not.I then googled it an...
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There was an article on Gawker the other day that NYTimes is planning to cut 20% of its editorial staff in 2009.Im not sure what number that translates into but the report goes on to say that most of ...
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Via my favorite tech blog, Gizmodo, is a link to cellphones.org which has a post today about deciphering your girlfriends text messages.Punctuation periods are a bad sign.Exclamations generally good e...
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I chatted with an author the other day who mentioned how grateful she was to be at a certain point in her career given the economy.Looking at the news this morning, I am thinking she might be doubly g...
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Announcement for the Readers Down Under (is that a proper noun?) In February 2009 the inaugural Australian Romance Readers Convention is being held in Melbourne. There will be talks by Sherrilyn Kenyo...
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Last month, Jia reviewed a new to us YA book called Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.Its a story about a teenager forced to fight in a brutal game to the death against 23 other teenagers.Others decided...
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Dear Ms. Banks: Thank you for sending me, Into the Lair, the second in the Falcon Mercenary series. It might surprise you want I liked and didnt like about this story. Into the Lair takes up where I...
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Dear Mr. Lanyon, When we posted Sarahs guest review of Anah Crows book , we got numerous posts lauding the fact that we had put up an m/m themed book and (seemingly) wanting more. Im not a math wiz bu...
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more animals Last week, Jordan Summers and Kassia Kroszer engaged the romance community at Romancing the Blog in a debate over author blogs.Summers felt hamstrung, in the past, about voicing strong op...
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I read on Twitter that Angela James was looking to take advantage of the Fictionwise 50% rebate offer but couldnt find any books.I am ordering some dead tree books on Amazon and need one more to meet ...
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Dear Ms. Gray: I cant recall why I wanted to read a book of yours.Was it a comment you made?Somewhere?Its hard to say.I mentioned one night on Twitter that I was going to buy one of your books (Damnat...
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We are starting a new series called If You Like which will be hosted by various readers, authors and bloggers of Dear Author.The purpose of the post and the comments is to explore what we like about a...
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Dear Ms. Grey: I cant recall why I wanted to read a book of yours. Was it a comment you made? Somewhere? Its hard to say. I mentioned one night on Twitter that I was going to buy one of your books...
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Dear Ms. Kleypas:After reading the first two lackluster books in your Hathaways series, I was thrilled to jump back into one my favorites with A Wallflower Christmas.I was a big fan of Secrets of a Su...
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SimonSchuster is partnering with Macmillan Publishing Solutions to deliver over 500 SimonSchuster books to any web-enabled mobile phone.Titles will include The Secret, Star Trek books, Nancy Drew myst...
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Ask anyone with a business degree and theyll tell you that the business publishing model is broken.For example, isnt it crazy that unsold goods get to be returned for credit?What other business model ...
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While the Nobel jurists might think that US writers are insular and ignorant, the same cant be said for US economists.Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton and New York Times columnist, was awarded t...
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We are starting a new series called If You Like which will be hosted by various readers, authors and bloggers of Dear Author.The purpose of the post and the comments is to explore what we like about a...
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Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Im feeling the paranormal/fantasy fatigue.What are you feeling?
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Arstechnica, one of my favorite tech blogs, had an article up last week about EMIs decision to open an EMI only music store.Ars argued that an EMI only music store was doomed to fail for two basic rea...
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