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Is Social Networking Sucking the Life out of Romance Writing?

From an 8/3/09 PW article:

Brenda Knight, associate publisher of Cleis Press's Viva Editions, thinks she knows why the paranormal has become so dominant (in romance):

"In the age of social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Craigslist, there's less fantasy. It's increasingly easy to find and be found," she says. "However, you can't hook up with your demon-lover of choice via Twitter."

I don't think this is the only reason why paranormal is so popular* (I wrote The Mediator series

Knowing and The Day the Earth Stood Still, plus The Best Cat Video Ever

I had a LOT of people write in with suggestions since I posted that I'd be writing about my search for the Best Movie of All Time.

I just want you to know that I've seen most of the movies you suggested and yes, you're right: they're all very good, and definitely BMOAT contenders.

But right now I have to write about the movies Knowing and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

The other night our friend Bob was visiting from NYC and we decided to watch a movie on pay-per-view. But we couldn't agree what

Best Movie of All Time

It's true. I watch a lot of movies. Don't we all?

I'm basically looking for The Best Movie of All Time. I've seen a lot of really good ones (who can forget Why Me? The Leola Mae Harmon Story starring Armand Assante and Glynnis O'Connor as a brave plastic surgeon and nurse who fight to give a patient—who happens to be the nurse—lips made out of skin grafts from her naughty bits after her face is destroyed in a hit-and-run drunk driving accident? Why won't they release this on DVD, or at least

Meg Cabot Day (and Wet Mr. Darcy)

I totally forgot that today, July 31, is Meg Cabot Day (as proclaimed by the mayor of Bloomington, Indiana way back on July 31, 2004)!

How did you spend Meg Cabot Day? The preferred way to spend it is floating in a body of water, reading books.

But really you can spend it any way you want. That's the beauty of Meg Cabot Day!

I spent mine getting my hair done, along with a mani-pedi and a super relaxing massage. You can't spend all your time writing novels and trying to keep tabs on which Real

And Then Everything Unraveled

This weekend when you're baking on the beach (or the pool, which is where I intend to be—ha, psych to any editors who are reading this…no, actually I'll be inside in the AC working on the book I owe you even though all my friends are making fun of me because I'm getting so pale), don't be all:

"Meg Cabot didn't tell me about any good books to read on her blog this week!"

Because I'm totally coming to bat for you with And Then Everything Unraveled by Jennifer Sturman, which you're going to love….

Life After Labor

Yes! I've got deadlines!

I know, I know, who doesn't?

At least, all my writer friends do. We've been burning up the Internet, going:

"How many words do you have left? What chapter are you on? Do you think I can get away with a fifty page flashback? What about a two hundred page flashback? Should I just make the whole book a flashback? Do vampires poop? Will you write my sex scene for me? Do vampires wear underwear? If they don't poop, then why do they wear underwear? Isn't underwear to pr

Mother-Daughter YA Reads/NPR

Check it out! I'm going to be on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" this Thursday, July 23, along with Lizzie Skurnick ("Shelf Discovery"), from 3 to 3:40 p.m. Be sure to tune in (okay, yeah, that's NPR, and yeah, that's TODAY)!

We're going to talk about YA Mother-Daughter reads!

I've told you my mom used to call the school and tell them I was "sick" whenever there was going to be an Audrey Hepburn or Leslie Caron movie playing on Channel 4.

Well! This was in the days before video reco

Shelf Discoveries and Dork Secrets

Check it out: I made it to Minnesota!

Maybe you thought I wouldn't make it here after being stranded by Delta Airlines in Atlanta (or Hotlanta, as I like to call it, after the book series).

But Delta pulled through with flying—ha, get it, flying?—colors. Even my bag arrived on time (albeit on another flight)!

(Don't you hate it when you get really mad about something and then people are totally nice to you and you can't be mad at them anymore? UGH!)

Now I'm in Mankato. Those of you who gre

Bedlam at Gate 10

Hi! I am stuck in the Atlanta Airport (Gate E10, to be exact) after being stuck at the Key West airport for approximately four hours earlier today with an entire Cub Scout Troop.

(I felt so sorry for the troop leader, I wanted to offer him a Vicodin. But then I was like, "Oh, no, if he's out of it, then who will protect the rest of us from them?")

And now my bag is lost. And I am losing battery power on my laptop as I write this. And there are no more plugs. And I have a bunch of stuff due,

Be Princessy

I totally forgot that, in addition to Harry Potter 6 opening today (I've got my tickets! I'll be standing in line in a few hours…I'm feverish with anticipation!), today is the day of the big national Romance Writers of America conference (and literacy signing)!

So if you live in the Washington DC area, drop everything else you've got planned (Harry can wait…when else will you get an opportunity like this?) and go to the signing. You can click here to see which of your favorite women's fiction,