In today’s AR Fun, we’d like to give you a heads up about changes we’re making to the TellTale feature of our website come November. Instead of two columns a month in the TellTale area, we’ll be moving the columns over here, to the blog, to be posted on some weekends.
We’d love to have your input on what you think about authors sharing behind the scenes information about their books. Do you enjoy reading them? Can you give us some examples of authors who have fun behind the scene info on their websites?
One person who leaves a comment will win a surprise book from one of our authors plus some fun goodies! The winner will be picked by the end of the weekend.
The winner of the surprise book and goodies was Michele L.! Thanks to everyone for your input!
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Candice Hern has lots of tidbits about the historical background behind her stories. As does Kathryn Caskie. Finally, Susanna Carr has fun info.
by Laurie
on October 19th, 2007 at 8:09 am
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Heck, I love reading the stories about the stories! 
And the blog is a great place for it!
Lois
by Lois
on October 19th, 2007 at 9:36 am
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I not only enjoy reading about behind the scenes information, but I like it when authors travel to new locations they are going to write about and then share their trips with us and photos they have taken. It is a great way to learn about wonderful places to travel and tidbits of information on authors and new books coming.
by Shari C
on October 19th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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I love reading the behind the scenes of the books. Delilah Devlin has behind the scenes for her books.
by Amy S.
on October 19th, 2007 at 11:30 am
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I just found this site a few days ago so I didn’t know about the Tell Tale feature (having to much fun reading the blogs). I would love to hear about the background/behind the scenes from the authors and since I found this site by googling ‘author blogs’ I think putting them in the blog section would be great!!!
by Laura J
on October 19th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
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I love hearing about all the extras and behind the story type information. I think integrating the Tell Tale feature with All A-blog would be a great thing.
Gail Barrett has some very cool behind the scenes information about the somkejumpers she researched for her books. Like Laurie, I love Candice Hern’s historical information on her website.
by Zara
on October 19th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
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I enjoy reading the tidbits the authors share on their web site as well as on their blogs. I have bought several books and found several new authors I am now reading had it not been for the information authors shared about their books and about other authors they have invited to their blogs. I’m all for it.
by Tammy G.
on October 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
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I do enjoy reading about things like how the author got an idea about a book or a character. Julia London, Julia Quinn and Eloisa James are several authors whose sites offer behind the scenes happenings and deleted scenes.
by Jane
on October 19th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
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I love reading the behind-the-scenes stuff. Holly Lisle and J. R. Ward both have a lot of “extras” that are really cool to read.
by Nonny
on October 19th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
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Candice Hern has great behind the scenes information. It includes pictures and explanations that really make the book more interesting.
by Maureen
on October 19th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
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I love hearing about behind the scenes info from an author’s book/series.
Candice Hern is a great example; she even has a discussion board for great
conversation about her books, etc.
Behind the Scenes of HEART OF A THIEF is a great site where Gail Barrett shows pictures from her research trip to Spain for the book and she even suggests a book
that would be great to get to read about the culture, etc.
by RobynL
on October 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
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yes it is great. who inspired them to write the books
by kim h
on October 19th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
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I love getting behind the scenes information for the books. Candice Hern was the first person I could think of that is great at doing that.
by Cherie J
on October 19th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
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I enjoy behind the scenes info on books. It makes the stories even more enjoyable.
by Joyce
on October 19th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
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I forgot about the Telltale section. Putting it here in the blog is a great idea! I check the blog daily so I won’t miss it this way.
by Sue A.
on October 19th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
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I like Candice Hern’s behind the scenes info, too.
by Minna
on October 19th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
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Excellent idea to combine the features. I enjoy reading about the background of the books, their travels and research always is interesting.
by jenna
on October 19th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
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I love reading blogs, especially the ones by Donna Kauffman and Jill Shalvis - Jill shares funny anecdotes about her family and Donna keeps us up to date on what’s going on the reality shows. Both of course keep us updated on their books.
by Pat L
on October 19th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
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I enjoy behind the scenes details about books.
Susanna Carr, Candice Hern, and Eloisa james have good behind the scenes pages.
by Estella
on October 19th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
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Most have already been mentioned but I’m going to add Suzanne McMinn - she has a great blog. I love hearing all the other things authors want to tell us about.
by catslady
on October 19th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
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I love reading behind the scenes info. I have not checked out TellTale column so I am glad that it is moving to the blog since I check it out almost every day.
by Linda F
on October 19th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
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I really like reading the Behind the Pages scenes of authors. It’s fun.
by Wendy
on October 19th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
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I have never checked that section… but I will!
by Lily
on October 19th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
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I love reading behing the scenes info… and I love reading blogs… and I really like yours guys!
by Nathalie
on October 19th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
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I love surprises!
I have never checked TellTale… though I don’t like websites that have not been updated for ages!!
by Lila
on October 19th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
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Elizabeth Hoyt and Helen Kay Dimon have fun tidbits and great blogs. I’ve never checked out TellTale but I will now.
by Kimmy Lane
on October 19th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
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I do like reading behind the scenes. It’s great to see where they get the ideals for the story. Most of the ones I know have been mentioned already: Candice Hern & Eloisa James.
by Stacy S
on October 19th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
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I love those extra tidbits, behind the scenes on the blog is an awesome idea. 
by danette
on October 19th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
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I enjoy reading behind the scenes, Elizabeth Boyle has interesting footnotes about her researches for every book.
by Eva S
on October 20th, 2007 at 3:57 am
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AR’s Susan Stephens has info about the settings of her storie…s Venice & Greece come to mind.
Lydia Joyce has historical background info.
Stella Cameron has an elaborate Bayou site with background information for all of her stories.
Tori Carrington has a website full of info about their books and about Greece (Tony is from Greece)…complete with recipes.
Lauren Royal also has recipes and background info on her historial settings,historical items, characters etc and she gives away jewwlry which she features on the covers and that she makes herself.
by Laurie
on October 20th, 2007 at 5:37 am
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I enjoy reading Tell Tale, it gives me insight on behind the scenes ideas by various authors. Putting it on the blog is a good idea.
by Teresa W.
on October 20th, 2007 at 8:10 am
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I like to read “behind the scenes” about the book or how it came to be. Susanna Carr and Candice Hern are two that come to mind and always have interesting tidbits on their site.
by KimW
on October 20th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
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Gosh, I am sorry! I have never read Tell Tale. I enjoy reading behind the scenes stuff! One of my favorite blogs to check out is PlotMonkeys with Carly Phillips, Leslie Kelley, Janelle Dennison, and Julie Leto. They have a wonderful behind the scenes on Saturday with the authors on their books. I will definitely check out your Tell Tale section. That would be great if you incorporated it on the blog section!
by Michele L.
on October 20th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
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I like when authors give a little summary about each character on their site. I remember before I read Julie Leto’s book Dirty Little Secrets, I found her site and it made me want to get the book even more. She had pictures of actresses that she’d have play the character in a movie and tons of little facts about the characters. Here’s the page that I saw that made me want the book. By the way it’s a great book. I loved it.
http://www.marisela.info/marisela.html
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I’ve never checked out Tell Tale either. I also enjoy reading about behind the scenes stuff. I think the blog is a great place for it. I enjoy the Plotmonkeys’ blog, Soapboxqueens’ blog (with Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jennifer Labrecque & Rhonda Nelson), Jill Shalvis and Donna Kauffman’s blogs too.
by Carolyn A.
on October 21st, 2007 at 8:42 am
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I very much enjoy behind the scenes info. The insights can and often do make the book that much more personal and enjoyable.
by Angie T
on October 21st, 2007 at 9:13 am
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I read several author blogs, and I enjoy when they share where ideas come from, actual pictures or tidbits of history that inspired them, etc. Monica McCarty has done this at her site, and I love Lucy Monroe’s blog - she often shares pictures of what her characters look like to her. It’s fun to see what an author uses for creativity purposes.
by Stacy ~
on October 21st, 2007 at 11:20 am
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Linda Conrad has good recipes, Michelle Willingham has links to historical sites. I read more about Hurricane Katrina on the author’s blogs (Larissa Ione, for example) and got more personal information than was on the news. I keep a lot of the author’s websites on my favorites list and read their blogs when I have the time. And I like reading excerpts from their books and, of course, entering their contests. I have a few autographed books and they are on my keeper shelf. Guess you can tell that I read a lot . 
by RubyD
on October 21st, 2007 at 4:47 pm
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The winner of the surprise book and goodies was Michele L.! Thanks to everyone for your input!
by Administrator
on October 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
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Wow! Thank you so much! I love your blog and will now add Tell Tale as another favorite feature of mine!
by Michele L.
on October 23rd, 2007 at 10:26 am
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wtg ml
by kim h
on October 23rd, 2007 at 2:22 pm
