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Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for November 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...

Open Thread for Readers for November 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 our New Releases site here.

REVIEW: After the Storm by Amy Knupp

Dear Ms. Knupp:

I struggled to connect to your characters from the opening scene when Nadia Hamlin endangered the lives of rescue personnel to go back into a hurricane zone to retrieve a business file. Penn Griffin, a guy who tried to date her but was constantly stood up because of business decisions. After their one aborted date ended with her running out on Penn before the entrees were delivered, Penn had stopped his pursuit. Of course, her image has “haunted” him ever since. Why? Because sh...

Daily Deals: Contemporary to Award winning middle grade books

[image error] Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio. $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:

In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels—The Violets of March and The Bungalow. With Blackberry Winter—taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon—Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time.

Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and departs to work the night-shift at a local...

DMCA Exceptions for 2012 through 2015

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Image via BigStock Photo

Intro

On October 26, 2012, the Register of the Federal Copyright Office issued the triennial exemptions to the DMCA law. (PDF here) Every three years, the Register of the Copyright opens a proceeding whereby it accepts public arguments as to why certain anti circumvention processes should be allowed. It’s a flawed system but the only one we have in place.

The Register’s exemptions doesn’t mean that the disallowed techniques are not legal. Rather it blesses and sanitizes...

Daily Deals: More paranormal and mysteries

[image error] The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson. $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:

Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn’t deal with electronic appliances–he fixes situations for people, situations that usually involve putting himself in deadly danger. His latest project is recovering a stolen necklace, which carries with it an ancient curse that may unleash a horde of Bengali demons. Jack is used to danger, but this time Gia’s daughter Vicky is threatened. Can Jack overcome the curse of the...

REVIEW: Naked by Raine Miller

Dear Ms. Miller:

If a reader wondered what Bared to You would be like with a British heroine, hero, and setting, then Naked answers all those questions. Bared to You might be patterned obliquely after 50 Shades although Day has said it was not, then Naked is light pencil sketch of Bared to You with several similar scenes including one where the hero hunts the heroine down in a nightclub by tracking her gay BFF’s credit card. It also ends in a cliffhanger so readers can feel compelled to buy th...

First Page: Love’s Little Gator Bites~working title

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.

Chapter One

Cowboy Down

Loud knocking saved Bobby Jean’s face from the sharp teeth of the piranha, this time. Waking up, she reached for her husband, but her hands landed on the cold satin sheets. He must have snuck off...

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Daily Deals: Special Deal for DA Readers; Collection of horror stories; A demon + succubus love story

[image error] Danse de la Folie by Sherwood Smith. $ 1.99

From the Jacket Copy:

light-hearted Regency folly, starring Miss Clarissa Harlowe who

wants a quiet life-but falls in love with a smuggler, the marquess of St. Tarval. Tarval’s sister, Lady Kitty, is determined to write a dramatic Gothic to save her brother’s mortgaged estate-if she can reach London. Clarissa’s much-pursued cousin, Mr. Philip Devereaux, is inexplicably intrigued by Lady Kitty, who is doing her best to encourage the match between him an...