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November 1, 2009
How to Make Money in Publishing (and other writing jokes)
How to Make Money in Publishing and other writing jokesQuestion: How do you make a small fortune in publishing?Answer: Start with a large fortune.Question: How many screenwriters does it take to change a light bulb?Answer: Ten.1st draft. Hero changes light bulb.2nd draft. Villain changes light bulb.3rd draft. Hero stops villain from changing light bulb. Villain falls to death.4th draft.
October 31, 2009
A jolly Halloween....
And it's especially jolly for me since I received my author copies of The Moonlight Mistress!!!
October 30, 2009
Spooky Book Recommendations
In honor of Halloween, I offer recommendations of creepy, scary, horrifying fiction.The Bloody Chamber, a collection of short stories by Angela Carter, all explicitly based on fairy tales. Warning: these stories are not for the squeamish! Really, they're not. At all. But they're powerfully written and well worth rereading and pondering.Cherie Priest is a contemporary author often placed in
October 29, 2009
Time Well Bent - ed. Connie Wilkins
I don't have a story in this anthology, but a friend of mine edited it and others wrote stories for it, and I'm really looking forward to reading it!Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative Historiesed. by Connie Wilkins We have always been here. For as long as there's been such a thing as sex, alternate sexual identities have been a fact of life. So why have we been so nearly invisible in recorded
October 28, 2009
Wacky Story Elements and Laura Kinsale
So, there's this novel, and it's about a virgin who thinks she's doomed to nymphomania and a ninja who used to be a child prostitute.Or in this one, the hero is afraid of heights, and the heroine has a pet hedgehog who is vital to the plot and also she invented radio and wants to make a flying machine.No, this one: see, there's this fat girl, but she's a princess, and there's this guy with PTSD.
October 27, 2009
Writers, Live and In Person
Yay, the French edition is now for sale at Harlequin France!You can also buy it at Decitre.And now for some actual content:Normally, my writers' workshop meets once every couple of months, but it's been a little less often lately. Some of us are engaged in big projects that must proceed too quickly to take time out for critique; others are dealing with life and health issues. Our founding
October 26, 2009
Linkgasm #2
A Writing Revolution at Seedmagazine.com. "Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish." That's not a new idea. "Consumers" who write have been around for a long, long time. I was reminded immediately of The Organization for Transformative Works. And Henry Jenkins' Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide as well as Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a
October 25, 2009
Jane Austen Didn't Let Other People Tell Her What To Write
"My Dear Sir, I am honoured by the Prince's thanks and very much obliged to yourself for the kind manner in which you mention the work. ...You are very kind in your hints as to the sort of composition which might recommend me at present, and I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the House of Saxe-Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of profit or popularity than such
October 23, 2009
Moonlight Mistress Excerpt - Emotion
Moonlight Mistress is out December 2009 from Harlequin Spice. #Crispin hadn't felt any fear at all as he'd led his platoon into battle, only a strange feeling of intense concentration and heightened senses. Now that the worst of the fighting was over, though, chance had left him stranded far from his company, his twisted ankle swelling inside his boot, each beat of his pulse throbbing up his
Jessica Freely - Wildly Successful E-Book Promotion - Guest Post
Please welcome my guest, Jessica Freely!#Hi, I'm m/m erotic romance author Jessica Freely and I'm guest blogging here today. Thank you, Victoria, for having me over!I just had a new ebook, Rust Belt, come out last month, so the topic of promotion has been on my mind lately. You know promotion. We're all supposed to do it, and most of us would rather not. We're writers. We want to be writing
