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SBTB/DA Bestseller List, Week Ending November 21, 2012

Knaves’ Wager by Loretta Chase A | BN | K | S
What I Did For a Duke with Bonus Material: Pennyroyal Green Series by Julie Anne Long A | BN | K | S
How Not to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman A | BN | K | S
As You Wish by Elyssa Patrick A | BN | K | S
The Bronze Horseman with Bonus Material by Paullina Simons A | BN | K | S
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser A | BN | K | S
Viscount Vagabond by Lorett...

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for December 2012

Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus.

The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows:

The book has to be released in that month (i.e., anything released during the last week of February would be a March release)

You can post for yourself or you can have a friend post for you if the idea of posting about your book...

Daily Deals: A self published deal and a three backlist titles for 99c each

The Mighty Storm by Samantha Towle. $ .99 / 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:

It’s been twelve years since Tru Bennett last saw Jake Wethers, her former best friend and boy she once loved.

Jake Wethers, sexy, tattooed and deliciously bad lead singer, and brains behind The Mighty Storm, one of biggest bands in the world, left Tru with a broken heart when he moved from England to America with his family when they were both fourteen.

Sent to interview Jake for her music column by the magazine she works for...

Open Thread for Readers for December 2012

Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general? Post away.

Don’t forget you can check out the new releases for December at our New Releases site. You can filter for just the novels by searching for Novels + December 2012.

REVIEW: Kindle Fire HD 8.9″

Contents

Kindle Fire HD comes with the device and USB 2.0 cord. No power adapter is provided. Amazon gets a big fat raspberry for that.

Initial impression

My first thought when I lifted it out of the box was that it was heavy. According to the Amazon site, the Kindle Fire HD with the 8.9″ screen weighs 20 oz. According to Apple, the iPad 4 weighs 23.04 ounces. I’m getting use to the lighter weight of the mini iPad. Out of the box the device must connect to WIFI and update its software. When the...

Daily Deals: A variety of deals for under $1.99

Do you have any money left after today? These deals require only a few dollars. In addition to the book deals, Audible is offering a great sale called “Treat Yourself” and there are over 100 audiob books at $4.95. I don’t believe you need a membership for these prices.

Also, don’t forget these freebies from Amazon. To get you hooked on Whispersync for Voice, Amazon is offering a few free classics in Kindle and Audio.

[image error] Bluestockingne Homecoming by M.J. Frederick. $ .99

From the Jacket Copy:

War cor...

REVIEW: Sean Griswold’s Head by Lindsey Leavitt

Dear Ms. Leavitt:

I bought this when it was the Kindle Daily Deal and for $1.99 it was a worthwhile read. Payton Gritas is a by the books, orderly sort of girl who saves her money to buy the nicest day planner ever and is excited to use different color highlighters to differentiate her tasks. Her world is thrown off kilter by the announcement that her father has MS.

Payton responds by plungingheadlong into rebellion. Of course her rebellion is fear driven but she acts out in incredibly selfish...

First Page: Ghost of a Chance

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. You can submit your own First Page using this form.

Sarah Carmichael had been in Hartford, Nebraska since noon. She’d been ready to leave since 12:15.

The old, ramshackle Victorian she’d inherited a few weeks ago was proving to be nothing but a hassle. She should never...

Daily Deals: A variety of deals from a historical retelling of Achilles and Patroclus to an insane WTF new adult

Hell on Wheels by Julie Ann Walker. $1.99.

From Jacket Copy:

Black Knights Inc.—Behind the facade of their tricked–out motorcycle shop is an elite special ops team assigned the jobs too hot for anyone else to handle.

Hold On Tight…

Ex–Marine Nate “Ghost” Weller is an expert at keeping his cool—and his distance—which makes him one hell of a sniper. It’s also how he keeps his feelings for Ali Morgan in check. Sweet, sexy Ali has always revved his engine, but she’s his best friend’s baby sister…and...

REVIEW: Seducing Mr. Knightly by Maya Rodale

Dear Ms. Rodale:

I have not read the previous three books in this series but the recent sale by HarperCollins piqued my interest. I had a review copy in my files and decided to give it a chance. The premise behind the series is that newspaper owner Derek Knightly hired four women and dubbed them the Writing Girls. Annabelle Swift is the advice columnist who lives in the garret of her older brother’s house and suffers heaps of abuse by her sister in law. She is, in some aspects, a cinder girl....