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Tim Herrera’s tips for having better conversations are not tips for having better conversations. They’re tips for being better liked. They’re strategies for getting people to have a higher opinion of you, for (as one of the people Herrera interviews puts it) making people ”think you’re a great co...

A heads up that Prepare Now-Survive Now, my condensed preparation/survival manual is free today, Monday 24 September! Given recent events this is a must have for everyone. The real key is preparation and to have what you need on hand before disaster strikes.

Becca the Labrarian continues to fin...

Publication date: April 10th 2018

Genres: Adult, Historical, Thriller

In the lush, tropical world of Martinique where slavery is a distant memory and voodoo holds sway, Emilie Dujon discovers that her fiancé, a rich sugar planter, has been unfaithful. Desperate t...

[image error]This week like many on social media, I saw another author quite their dream. This one stated that the spent $4,000 with nothing to show for it. Unfortunately, that isn’t unusual, and it isn’t a reflection of this person’s writing skill either. It comes from the dense fog around bein...

4 Stars. This book would have gotten 5, had it not been for one major point and two other points-if only those I would have said 4.5 and rounded to that 5. This one was the best, by far, in the series for me.

What I LOVE:

There are characters in the book that grew and took on more of life, and that...

Welcome to London. We expected that this part of the trip would be easy, because Brits speak English, and Americans speak English, right?

[insert evil laugh here]

The problem wasn’t the vocabulary we knew we had to learn, like “loo” or “water closet” for bathroom/toilet. It was the words we did...

På torsdag börjar bokmässan i Göteborg och den här gången ska jag inte åka. Jag har varit där de tre senaste åren, så det känns nästan lite tomt att inte åka i år, men jag får hoppas att det blir många fler gånger i framtiden! Dessutom är det inte helt fel att åka på spasemester till Estland i st...

We hadden bezoek van een nogal coole dude

He thought himself irredeemable. She knew the truth.

Be the first to see ‘The Rogue’s Redemption’ cover featuring the baddest Border Series bad boy, Reid Kerr. Though the most fun hero I’ve written to date, Reid also gave me as much trouble as he did our heroine, Lady Allie. In a word, Reid is...

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Yep, you guessed it! It’s been another busy week. They’re all so busy, at this point we should just take busy as a given and I’ll let you know if I have a non-busy week LOL

I did manage to finish my Christmas Angel story. OMG I didn’t think it would ever end! LOL But A Soldier’s Wish...

I am a huge fan of Elena Ferrante, the Italian novelist whose true identity isn’t publicly known and who has written some of the most interesting pieces of contemporary domestic fiction. Ferrante is best known for her Neapolitan Quartet (which is fabulous and is being adapted by HBO). Recently, h...

Sometimes, when the news is full of Cthulhu-level madness and your mentions are full of trolls, you need to go and do something just for yourself. And when you’re me, that might involve dancing to music about Satan, slavery, and the reasonable fear of imminent death.

Please see my previous post an...

Dear Sunday Letter friends,

This has been a busy week, and I’ve felt a bit like a vagabond. On Tuesday, I drove to Little Rock for a book club talk. (You’ll be hearing all about it soon!) This morning I send greetings from Plano, Texas where I’m helping Momma sort through her storage unit and p...

fansplaining:

If you become a $10 Patron in the next 24 hours, you’ll get this adorable tiny zine - a collaboration with @redgoldsparks! Patreon patrons are how we keep the lights on around here, so please consider signing up…you’ll get more collaborative zines as time goes on, too!

I was delight...

News tonight from The New Yorker: a woman claims she was drunk at a college party with Brett Kavanaugh, who pulled his pants down and showed her his wing-wang:

The woman at the center of the story, Deborah Ramirez, who is fifty-three, attended Yale with Kavanaugh, where she studied sociology an...

Jepp folkens. Nå kan dere lese meg også på pensum i Examen philosophicum. I hvert fall hvis du tar enkelte bestemte studieretninger ved Universitetet i Stavanger.

Hvordan bidrar nå det å få nok en middelaldrende hvit mann på exphilpensum til noen avkolonisering av akademia, kan du jo spørre? O...

I recently read a critically acclaimed (and quite good) novel that was horribly overwritten. I could’ve gone through with a red pen and cut twenty thousand words of internal rumination without seriously harming the plot or character development of the book. To be honest I felt a little sorry for...

Recunosc cu seninătate că nu m-au atras niciodată cărţile scrise de ruşi. E ceva întunecat în literatura rusă, ceva apăsător care a rămas impregnat în mine de când am lecturat Dostoievski prin liceu. De atunci mă cam feresc de nume cu rezonanţă slavă şi marginalizez tot ceea ce m-ar putea duce cu...

Reading the first chapter of my upcoming fantasy novel, Shadowplay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHv0e3cu1N4&t=5s

Es kam nicht überraschend, aber es ist doch faszinierend, wie schnell man nach einem Urlaub wieder urlaubsreif sein kann. Ich hatte drei Tage hintereinander Veranstaltungen zu absolvieren. So toll jede einzelne von ihnen war, große Menschenansammlungen sind anstrengend. Zu dem vergrößerten Erholu...

Before I get into my talk about milestones, I have a fun surprise: there’s a new album up at The Decorative Writer! This time my bestie Kelsey Macke is sharing her ah-mazing home office with us. This suite is spacious, colorful, organized, inspiring, AND it has every reader’s dream: a hidey-hole!...

If you’re in Baltimore next Sunday, come find me at the Baltimore Book Festival and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Tent at the Baltimore Book Festival!
At 11 AM, I’ll be in conversation with @m_older, and then at noon I’m doing a game show/reading with Theodora Goss, plus Sarah Pinsker and Kell...

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Finally, Grace and Sol are officially out in the world. This is the first book in the Grace Trilogy. It’s a slow-burn friends-to-lovers forbidden romance. Get ready to #SinWithSol. 

#OhMySol

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Note from Carol: I'm thrilled to be a part of the Embrace the Passion: Pets in Space 3  science fiction romance anthology, in part because I get to work with fabulous authors such as Ruby Lionsdrake, author of the Mandrake Company serie...