Comments on: Dirty Shame by Selah March

by: Bridget Midway

Sat, 05 May 2007 15:11:34 +0000

LOVE MY WAY isn’t a novella. It’s a 100,000-word, nearly 300-page full-length novel. Giggles, did you get the impression that the book was a novella, or you felt for full-lenght that price was still too high?

BridgeT

by: Ann(ie)

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:32:47 +0000

I tend to agree that many novellas are overpriced.

by: Teddy Pig

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:38:23 +0000

“Ellora’s Cave, Loose Id, and Amber Quill”

You go Mrs. G! Those three have been doing some serious miss steps in what they allow to be published under their name also.

Garbage. Utter Garbage!

And the editing or lack there of OMG smelly.

Samhain is rocking in the real world.

by: Mrs G

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:07:49 +0000

I nearly bought this book until I saw its price - $6.00.

I didn’t buy Bridget Midway’s book even though I wanted to due to Annie’s recommendation because of its price, $7.99.

It seems to me that Ellora’s Cave, Loose Id, and Amber Quill are three of the priciest ebook publishers - at least among the ones that I frequent - and $6.00 is really pushing it for an extended novella when I could purchase a non-Superleader/Treasure Avon historical romance at the same price. I suspect EC and maybe Loose Id can raise its price to the wazoo since there will always be customers wanting their books but I wonder if Amber Quill have such devoted fanbase. Needless to say, I’m buying more and more from Samhain whose prices are always reasonable and the stories are also mostly my cup of tea.

Of course, those NY publishers are even more crazy, pricing hardcovers and ebook versions of those hardcovers equally. No way am I paying $24.95 for an ebook version of a hardcover, I may as well buy the hardcover!

Maybe it’s just me being old-fashioned because I view ebooks as cheaper to produce and with them being shorter than print books by right should be cheaper than a typical print book?

by: danette

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:52:00 +0000

Great review Annie and that guy has to be Jensen.Though, some say we have a twin out there in the world,you never know Jensen’s identical brother from another mother can be the guy on the cover.*g*

by: December Quinn

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:53:39 +0000

Oooh, I have to read this! I love the angsty men.

by: Eva Gale

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:29:23 +0000

Hope your OK Mrs G-that the earthquake wasn’t by you.

by: Mrs G

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:21:23 +0000

I’m not having Internet connection and this is me from a cybercafe (checking my emails and all) so I’d better make this quick.

Regarding dodgy use of copyrighted photos, Loose Id used to do that too - there’s a cover that’s a dead-on replicate of a publicity photo for the TV show Roswell in their backlist. There’s one from the TV show Dark Angel too.

Don’t ask me how I know, but I do recognize some familiar torsos on most Amber Quill AmberHeat covers, only with hilariously mismatched heads Photoshopped on those bodies. Sometimes you actually can see that the skin tone of the head and the body don’t match, heh, or that the head is too small in proportion to the rest of the body. Judging from artist Mr Zaber’s body work, he must have a huge stash of near-naked hunk photos in his collection. I wonder if he’ll let me have a peek at them one of these days.

by: Samantha

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:43:42 +0000

DL: The cover artist is using real celebs and doing dodgy photo manips of them for cover art. Is this legal? Guy has balls, eh?

The infamous Gillian Anderson cover for My Lover, My Slayer is there. I didn’t see anything else definitive - but I didn’t really want to look through 15 pages of those.

Weird. JAckles squeeage still going, though. Don’t know why - I just have it bad for him…for the past 9 years. :rollyeyes:

by: Rowena

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:40:27 +0000

Yo, I’m buying this book right now…that totally looks like Jensen Ackles on the cover too, extra points on that one! This book sounds hella good, thanks for the review!