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Book Reading 2016 – As Sunita noted on Friday, the new Pew US reading survey results have been released, and one of the most interesting things about them may be their consistency over the pas...

https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/monday-news-pew-reading-survey-dc-comics-resurgence-great-british-bake-off-coloring-book/

Penguin pinged $30,000 for publishing the recipe book of fake cancer survivor Belle Gibson – Penguin Australia published a cookbook written by a woman who faked a cancer diagnosis, apparently a...

https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/friday-news-2/

Recent conversation with a good friend about Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock series led to this question: What do you think Jane values above everything else? My answer: independence. My frie...

https://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/are-love-and-freedom-compatible/

The idea for this essay started with a question: what is it about Twilight and its derivations, especially Fifty Shades of Grey and Transcendence, that allow these variations to represent “fres...

https://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/repetition-and-novelty-in-romance/

So it’s back-to-school time. I remember those days with gratitude that I’m no longer scheduled for regular papers and exams, but also a wistful pining for all the amazing things that remain ...

https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/back-to-the-books/

  Do you know that it’s only been five years and change since Harlequin announced that it was going to start offering self-publishing services? By comparison, digital-first publishing seems do...

https://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/publishing-for-everyone/

I don’t know if familiarity breeds content, but it definitely breeds myopia, and nothing crystallized this for me better than Amazon’s recent announcement that they would begin paying Kindle ...

https://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/publishing-and-the-unpredictability-of-reader-tastes/

When you hear the word book, what comes to mind? I know may feel like an odd question, since we talk about books so routinely that the answer seems obvious. But stripping away everything but the ...

https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/a-book-is-a-book-what-is-a-book/

This past weekend I was involved in a great email discussion about the question of whether Romance fiction faced a unique challenge that other types of fiction, including other genres don’t. Na...

https://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/when-classic-romance-novels-dont-remain-relevant/

Audiobooks are my new object of affection. Now that I have a commute, I can make the ride feel more productive when I listen to a book on the way to my office. And I already have my favorite narr...

https://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/audiobooks-difference-books-stories/