Katherine Stone Introduces WritersareReaders.com

Greetings to one and all, and many thanks to the lovely Ladies of the Quills for inviting me to share our exciting new project.

Here's the back story: After a very enjoyable 21-book career, I decided to give retirement a whirl...to play with a certain cocker spaniel -- and husband -- and build a house.

Somewhere along the line, my husband (novelist Jack Chase) and I came up with an idea for a web site that was too tantalizing to resist.

It's WritersareReaders.com, a publisher of book reviews written exclusively by published authors. The site is free to everyone. There are no "paid-for" reviews. It's the reviewer who chooses what book to review, a selection made from the universe of books he or she happens to read.

Negative reviews aren't excluded, but we're finding it's the "wow" book that authors are choosing to review. The book that -- as lifelong readers now armed with enhanced appreciation for what it takes to write -- they've marvelled at and want to share.

For readers (such as me), this is like wandering through a virtual garden party, bumping into favorite author after favorite author and, when posing the oft-asked question -- "What good books have you read lately?" -- getting a specific reply, in the familiar voice and style of each author.


The reviews themselves are a pleasure to read. Imagine, if you will, reviews written by Stella Cameron, Lori Foster, Susan Andersen, and Jayne Ann Krentz.

I've already discovered new and terrific authors as a result of reviews we've received.

So far, for the November 1 launch, the reviewers include many perennial New York Times bestsellers with, in aggregate, many hundreds of millions of books in print. An impressive group, indeed, and an eclectic one: romance, mystery, thriller, women's fiction, suspense. Our hope is to create a vast reservoir of literate, entertaining reviews reflecting the talent, insights, and widely varying writing styles of the professionals who submit the reviews.

http://www.writersarereaders.com/ should be up and running November 1. We would love to have visitors -- and feedback. Yes, there will be a blog: Readers are Writers.

We hope you'll enjoy the site, and visit often. New reviews will be posted as we receive them.

Thank you again, and all best wishes,

Katherine Stone


P.S. After I sent her this blog, that incredibly gracious Lori Foster wondered if there might be a little cover art I might like to add? It turns out that my final book, Caroline's Journal, which was published in hardcover a year ago will be out in paperback in a month or so. The cover is lovely, I think, and right for for what's inside. The story is emotional, sentimental, but -- as with all my books -- despite my having thrown all sorts of obstacles in their paths, the intrepid characters find their happy endings. Caroline's Journal is actually my favorite book, for all sorts of personal (emotional) reasons, the primary one being that it's about the love of a mom for her baby girl.