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April 21, 2012 | Saturday | 27 Comments
Data and deals, we have! First: Rainbow Romance Writers are doing a survey of romance readers and asked me to pass along the link to you. I enquired what the survey data was going to used for, and they told me, "we're mostly just gathering intel. It's sort of piggybacking off of the survey that RWA did recently but with a few more specific questions, with some focus on LGBT romance, although we're looking for a pretty broad range of responses. Some of what we do with what we find will depend on what the data reveals, but we may…
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December 24, 2011 | Saturday | 261 Comments
Merry Christmas Eve, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Traveling and Eating Day for Everyone! I hope you have time to read today. The Fourth Day of Hanukkah brings: NOOK! A nook Touch, all for you. Now, sometimes, I have heard, if you bring your nook into a local Barnes & Noble, coupons magically appear. So, tell me, which coupon would you MOST like to appear (feel free to Get Insane here, because it's not like BN's Coupon Development Team is going to take this seriously) on your nook, and you're entered to win. Usual disclaimers apply. I'm not being compensated for…
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September 20, 2011 | Tuesday | 597 Comments
According to Jeaniene Frost, our review of Halfway to the Grave was the first review for her 2007 debut novel. I still remember Hubby picking the book up off the dining room table and asking me what it was - the cover is still very striking, and I believe the same model has been used for the series. This week, starting today, actually, Halfway to the Grave is on sale for $1.99 as an ebook, along with bonus materials like deleted scenes and excerpts of the new book. There’s never-before-published scenes, the first four chapters of One Foot in the…
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July 12, 2011 | Tuesday | 19 Comments
Here’s a few sales and discount codes I’ve found today for your continued shopping pleasure:
Kobo! 20% Off Kobo eBooks with code “June20off”. This offer expires 7/15.
B&N: Paperbacks: There’s a Buy Two Get one Free page with a selection of fiction. Not much romance but a few very popular books that I’ve seen a lot of people reading lately - this might be a good sale for anyone who has some gift shopping to do and wants to buy some books!
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July 10, 2011 | Sunday | 31 Comments
Time again for the List with No Name, calculating the top sellers per the affiliate data from Dear Author and Smart Bitches. Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase Amazon nook Kobo Sony A View to a Kiss by Caroline Linden Amazon nook Kobo Sony The Duke And I with Bonus Material by Julia Quinn Amazon nook Kobo Sony Duchess in Love with Bonus Material by Eloisa James Amazon nook Kobo Sony The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot Amazon nook Kobo Sony Unlocked by Courtney Milan Amazon nook Kobo Sony How to Tame a Modern Rogue by Diana Holquist Amazon nook…
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July 06, 2011 | Wednesday | 44 Comments
Links, news, and various things in convenient list format (mostly because I’m afraid I’m going to forget something and there’s three things I want to tell you about).
1. One of the best historical romances ever, beloved by many, is .99 cents today for Kindle, nook, and Kobo.
Additionally, Caroline Linden’s A View to a Kiss is also .99c (AMZ | nook | Kobo) digitally right now. I don’t know how long the sale lasts, but if you’re craving historical romance like I am, then join me in a celebratory WOO HOO!
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June 26, 2011 | Sunday | 5 Comments
Time for this week’s best seller list. Guess what, y’all? Digital books on sale sell really well, as do books with great reviews. Surprising, no? The Duke And I by Julia Quinn | Amazon | Nook | Kobo | Sony Laird of the Mist (Warner Forever) by Paula Quinn | Amazon | Nook | Kobo | Sony Duchess in Love with Bonus Material by Eloisa James | Amazon | Nook | Kobo | The Secret to Seduction by Julie Anne Long | Amazon | Nook | Kobo | Sony Unlocked by Courtney Milan | Amazon | Nook | Kobo |…
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June 15, 2011 | Wednesday | 36 Comments
I admit, I’m terribly curious to find out what the Kindle on-device library lending will look like, whenever it arrives this fall. But I learned recently of another library lending program that totally knocked my socks off. At the Cudahy Family Library in Cudahy, Wisconsin - where is that, you ask? It’s right here - the librarians have the Most Interesting Lending Program. They lend Kindles. No, really, they lend Kindles. Preloaded with a ton of books, each device devoted to a different genre. I will let Michelle Gibbs, the Adult & Administrative Services Librarian (or, as I called her,…
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June 13, 2011 | Monday | 0 Comments
You tweeted, you emailed, you tweeted some more, and some of you won copies of the book - and you helped us spread the word. Really, that’s what this campaign is about: helping us promote a contemporary romance we thought was truly, truly awesome. Thank you for helping us out with that goal. And now, we have a winner! One person who tweeted, emailed, or helped us promote the Save the Contemporary webpage will win her choice of a nook Touch, a Kobo Touch, or a Kindle with Special Offers (I call it the “Friends with benefits Kindle”) - and…
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June 09, 2011 | Thursday | 21 Comments
First: Zoe Archer wrote this thoughtful entry about romance and feminism: Romance novels depict the emotional lives of women and men. The books aren’t merely the heroine’s journey toward love, but the hero’s journey, as well. Men’s emotions aren’t dismissed or suppressed. Men aren’t belittled for having feelings. Often, it’s the hero’s growing level of comfort and familiarity with emotion that forms one of the central elements to a romance novel. And this openness and acceptance with love actually makes the hero stronger, not weaker. Over at Kirkus, my most recent column is up. I’m talking about when the sex…
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March 02, 2011 | Wednesday | 61 Comments
On Twitter I recently asked the following question: “If you could buy digital books in a physical bookstore, would you shop there?” I asked because I saw a eReads article about digital book kiosks in physical bookstores, an idea I would LOVE to see. I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about how I shop for books, what I look for when I go buy a book, and I realized, I seek a specific title when I go make a purchase. I haven’t browsed a romance section in a bookstore in a very, very long time. Yet I have a…
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February 17, 2011 | Thursday | 105 Comments
If you are left handed, and you use a digital reader, in which hand do you hold the device? Conversely, if you are right handed, and you use a digital reader, in which hand do you hold your device? This was something Jane Litte and I were talking about yesterday as we were getting ready for our session, eReading from the eReader’s Perspective. (Full conference update coming soon.) Our presentation covered the differing hardware, software, and customer support of the different readers, and what a curious device buyer needs to consider when shopping for a device. The device Jane was…
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November 18, 2010 | Thursday | 51 Comments
If you’re a Kindle customer, you can get Zoe Archer’s entire Blades of the Rose series in one ebook bundle for $9.99.
It’s also available at BN.com for the nook. Is it too much to suppose that there’s some folks at Kensington dancing around singing “Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?” to the Agency publishers? I bet there’s dance footage. I bet Zoe can get it, too.
I don’t know if I can say how much that gives me giddy pants. So smart! (This also reminds me to go read Stranger, which is Catallus Graves’ story).
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November 09, 2010 | Tuesday | 16 Comments
Another small chapter in the Dorchester saga: New York Times bestselling Dorchester author Angie Fox has received her rights back to her book The Last of the Demon Slayers and has released it earlier than originally scheduled as a Kindle book. The book will also be available through print-on-demand for those who want a paper copy. Dorchester’s financial problems, according to Fox’s 6 November blog entry, had resulted in canceled orders, so she decided to get the rights back and release it herself as a self-published book. Fans had been asking for the next installment in her series - and…
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October 20, 2010 | Wednesday | 176 Comments
Something is very rotten in the state of Dorchester. Both Jane Litte and I have been pretty frank about our hesitation to recommend or buy books from Dorchester since it is relatively well-known that some authors haven’t been paid royalties for years. I know Dorchester’s decision to go digital-first has meant some very tricky and pain in the ass changes for authors, particularly when they were anticipating and planning for a print release that was rescheduled at the last moment for a digital release sometime in the nebulous future. But I thought the Dorchester drama was, for the most part,…
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