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July 22, 2016
Fun Friday: Thoughts I Had While Watching ‘Batman v Superman’
If you’ve been hanging out here for a while, you’ll know that a few years ago, I had a thing for a certain actor unknown to anyone who hadn’t seen The Tudors. Such a thing, in fact, that he was the physical template on which I patterned the character of Andrew Lawton in Follow the […]
July 21, 2016
Costume Drama Thursday: VICTORIA (2017)
Coming to Masterpiece on PBS in 2017. (Is it just me, or do those blue contact lenses look really strange on Jenna Coleman?) You can see more images of the costumes and learn more about the production over on Frock Flicks.Filed under: Costume Drama Thursday
July 20, 2016
Blogging Through ‘Scene and Structure’: Chapter 1 “The Structure of Modern Fiction”
As I wrote in the post Romance Novels: What Are They, Anyway?, romance readers expect their romance novels to hit certain “beats”—or, in other words, to follow a certain formula: The meet, the separation, the reunion, the happy ending. This expectation may seem limiting—stifling—to the creative process. Actually, as a romance writer, I find that […]
July 17, 2016
Books Read in 2016: ‘A Noble Masquerade’ by Kristi Ann Hunter (3.5 stars)
A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter My rating: 3.5 stars Book Summary from Goodreads: Lady Miranda Hawthorne acts every inch the lady, but inside she longs to be bold and carefree. Approaching spinsterhood in the eyes of society, she pours her innermost feelings out not in a diary but in letters to her brother’s […]
July 13, 2016
Blogging through ‘Scene and Structure’ by Jack Bickham
The majority have spoken, and the book chosen for our first Blogging Through . . . series is Scene and Structure by Jack Bickham. As mentioned before, I picked books that are available at most major public libraries, as well as through services like Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited (if you’re a Prime Member and/or KU subscriber). […]
July 5, 2016
Books Read in 2016: ‘Trouble in Paradise’ by Liz Ireland (3 stars)
Trouble in Paradise by Liz Ireland My rating: 3 stars Book Summary from Goodreads: Roy McMillan Had Vowed to Live and Die a Bachelor! But the McMillan credo didn’t set too well the day that Ellie Fitzsimmons stepped off the train in Paradise, Nebraska. The confounded beauty lit up an October day with her sunshine. […]
July 4, 2016
It’s Reading Report Time! (July 2016)
Happy First Monday of July, everyone. It’s Reading Report Time! . Tell us what you’ve finished over the last month, what you’re currently reading, and what’s on your To Be Read stack/list. And if you’ve reviewed the books you’ve read somewhere, please include links! To format your text, click here for an HTML cheat-sheet. If […]
June 30, 2016
“Blogging Through…” Help Pick a Writing Craft Book We Can Study Together
It’s been a while since I’ve written regularly and, along with that, it’s been a long time since I’ve read/studied any books on the craft of writing to remind myself of the technical aspects of what I choose to spend my after-hours time doing. Rather than do it alone, though, I thought it might be […]
Books (re)Read in 2016: ‘Innocent Traitor’ by Alison Weir
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir Audiobook performed by Stina Nielsen, Davina Porter, Bianca Amato, Jenny Sterlin, Jill Tanner, Gerard Doyle, and Robert Ian Mackenzie My (2013) rating: 4 stars (story), 4.5 stars (audio performance) Book Summary from Goodreads: New York Times best-selling author Alison Weir has earned her reputation as the preeminent historian of British […]
June 20, 2016
Books Read in 2016: ‘Dangerous Women’ (George R. R. Martin & Gardner R. Dozois, Eds.)
Dangerous Women Edited/Compiled by George R. R. Martin & Gardner R. Dozois My rating: 3 of 5 stars Book Summary from Amazon: All new and original to this anthology, the twenty-one stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ bestselling continuities-including a new “Outlander” […]
