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Memorial Day Links (and Deals): A LipDub Proposal, Ways to Donate Books to the Troops, and a Recommendation

I saw this video on the front page of Reddit on Friday and shared it on Twitter. It’s such a lovely and romantic video that I wanted to share it here.

Standoff Ends: IPG and Amazon Agree to Terms on eBooks and Titles Are Restored | Publishers Lunch – “IPG president Mark Suchomel confirms to PL “we have come to terms” and IPG-distributed ebooks have been restored to the Kindle store on Friday, May 25. Any titles that are not restored today should be available “in the next day or two.” Suchomel...

REVIEW: The Forbidden Ferrara by Sarah Morgan

Dear Ms. Morgan:

Secret baby stories are often hard for me to swallow, particularly in this modern day when fathers are more involved in their children’s lives than ever before. Ordinarily, I likely would have set this book aside after the first chapter when it is revealed that the heroine, Fia, has kept her son’s parentage a secret for over three years with her only excuse that the relationship had been a one night stand.

[image error]The Ferrara family and the Baracchi family have been feuding for two gen...

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

Related posts:

Open Thread for Readers for June 2011
Open Thread for Readers for May 2012
Open Thread for Readers for March 2012

DA/SBTB Bestseller List, Week Ending May 15, 2012

DA/SBTB Bestseller List, Week Ending May 15, 2012

Untraceable by Laura Griffin A | BN | K | S
Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day A | BN | K | S
Her Best Worst Mistake by Sarah Mayberry A | BN | K | S
One Reckless Summer by Toni Blake A | BN | K | S
Hot Island Nights by Sarah Mayberry A | BN | K | S
The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan A | BN | K | S
A Different Kind of Forever by Dee Ernst A | BN | K | S
Natural Law by Joey W. Hill A | BN | K | S
The Heart of Devin MacKad...

REVIEW: It Started with a Crush by Melissa McClone

“Lucy Martin’s dream of marrying her Prince Charming might have fallen apart, but she’s determined to make her soccer-mad nephew’s dreams come true. But that means asking her old crush Ryland James, the legendary bad boy of soccer, to coach her nephew’s team.

Injured and ordered to polish his tarnished reputation, Ryland’s looking for distraction. Coaching might be more involvement than he likes, but with gorgeous Lucy offering cookies as a bribe he can’t resist! This soccer superstar might ha...

Going to where the readers are (how publishing is a service industry too)

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From Nicola http://www.flickr.com/photos/15216811...

Announcement.

Beginning in 2013, Dear Author will only review books that are available in both epub and Kindle formats. Let me explain why.

There are two primary reasons why all books should be available in epub and Kindle formats. The first reason is that competition is important for even (or especially) Kindle users. The second reason is that publisher, regardless of whether the publisher is the author herself, a traditional print first pu...

REVIEW: Unexpected Family by Molly O’Keefe

Dear Ms. O’Keefe:

Grief stories have to be one of the more difficult stories to write. After all, grief stories can often rely on low hanging fruit using a death as the easy emotion evoker making the story seem manipulative instead of touching. However, there isn’t anything easy about the lives of Lucy Alatore or Jeremiah Stone. Lucy’s life was on the upswing, her one of a kind jewelry catching the eye of movie stars and other rich and famous people. When she makes a rookie business person mis...

First Page: Kitsune

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. Please do not comment or speculate on the author’s religion, ethnicity, national origin or sexuality. You can submit your own First Page using this form.

Sombra Alara wasn’t who I was, she was who I was supposed to be. The name meant either “ruler of all shadows” or “s...

REVIEW: Dark Soul: Volumes 3, 4, and 5 by Aleksandr Voinov

Dear Mr. Voinov,

Your Dark Soul series has been a roller-coaster ride for me. It is not a genre romance, even though it has some very romantic moments. It features themes I rarely seek out, including menage, BDSM, and protagonists in organized crime. Purchasing all five volumes is not inexpensive. It is quite brutal in places. And while I enjoy serialized fiction, this one is more like a set of linked short stories in parts than a serialized novel.

[image error]And yet. And yet. I read each installment with...