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November 5, 2009
Congratulations to Virginia in Clifton, VA and Breanna in Huntsville, 
AL — both of whom should be receiving gorgeous gift boxes of flavored chocolates from Mariebelle in New York.
They tell me you'll be getting them today or tomorrow, ladies. And do let me know if the elegant flavors you chose are as yummy as they sound (they got to choose 2 flavors each from the 27 or so flavors listed here).
Oh, and there's a new contest up — here — this time for the erotica readers among you, with an...
October 9, 2009
October 2, 2009
Just a quick reminder that it ends tomorrow. So do celebrate by contemplating all the treasures someone, somewhere, sometime wanted to keep you from reading. I'm having my say about it today over at History Hoydens — do come by or comment here.
And a quick question: do you know of any romance novel that got deep enough under somebody's skin that he or she tried to ban it?
©2009 Passions and Provocations. All Rights Reserved.
.September 28, 2009
As Michael and I wandered through the Folsom Street Fair yesterday, I couldn't help feeling a kind of rosy glow of community, thinking that perhaps by writing Carrie's Story and Safe Word (as Molly Weatherfield) I had made a tiny contribution to the universe of good-humored kink and exhibitionism that gives rise to the fair.
As well as family values, not to speak of récherché taste: because who was that man, I'd like to shake 
his hand — well, it's got to be a gay man, doesn't it? — who put...
Just a few words in honor of this extraordinary romance editor who died today. 
My first editor in romance fiction, Kate Duffy was the fierce intelligence and guiding spirit behind Kensington's Brava line.
Of course, lots of publishers do erotic romance now. But Kensington did it early and they did it big, with a confidence and clarity of purpose and imagination that was all Kate.
She was tough and smart and we had our disagreements. But (see Smart Bitch Sarah's lovely personal reminiscence
September 18, 2009
September 12, 2009
That's what my latest post at History Hoydens is about. The whole title being Sex and (the historical) Sensibility: Sickness, Seaside, Seduction.
Plus a lot of interesting comments… Do you think Jane Austen wrote romances, novels or both? Let me know.
A very Pam-ish post, I think, replete with fact, fetishism, and all the other good stuff that makes historical romance writing hot geeky fun for me.
Come on by, if you're of a mind to, and give us hoydens a piece of your mind by leaving a comment.
A...
August 28, 2009
Beneath my writers' uniform of flannel pajamas, I harbor two raging alter-egos in spandex, the dynamic duo of TheoryGirl and SuperEgoGirl. The first thinks the big fancy thoughts, the second (and more beleaguered) gets it onto paper (or into the ether), but only after I've promised to do so.
Which is why, in my last post, I announced that I'd be pulling together some of the thoughts I've been having about these issues, in response to Laura Vivanco's brief provocative post at Teach Me Tonight, ca
August 21, 2009
Actually, I am today — blogging away at History Hoydens about the research I'm doing, about the clothing Regency fashion prescribed for sailing and what people most likely actually wore.
And (most important for a writer) how to describe all that.
With nods (of course) to Jane Austen, Shelley and his circle, and fashionistas everywhere.
Come on by, say hi, and tell me what you think.
©2009 Passions and Provocations. All Rights Reserved.
.August 12, 2009
My favorite picture is probably this one (taken by Joanne Lockyer) of
me up on the podium making my acceptance speech, seeming for all the world as though I knew what I was doing there, at least if you don't count the effect of my searching the ceiling for inspiration — much as one of my alter egos, Sydney in The Edge of Impropriety, does, "as if to consult some hidden text secreted up there."
I love the glamorous blue and purple backdrop, don't you?
But as for my knowing what I was doing, don't y
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