Betsy Horvath's Blog, page 33

On Reviews and Responses

Yet another broohaha in Romancelandia over reviews and the author's response to said reviews has prompted me to examine my own responses to the reviews I've gotten on my book. I would prefer not to be stupid as I pick my way through the minefield which is publishing. Sometimes it's hard to know the right [...]

Go With The Flow

The other day, two of my characters decided to um, get busy with each other. I'm a romance author. Characters tend to get busy (*wink, wink*) in romance novels. But here's the thing. I hadn't planned for this to happen in the scene I was writing. I hadn't really wanted it to happen in this [...]

Fashion Changes

I was in the cafeteria at work the other day thinking about how much workplace fashions have changed since I was a shiny new worker-bee Betsy. For example, I was working at a bank when casual Fridays came into vogue. In fact, they had been all the rage in other industries for several years (banks [...]

Shaking the Piggy Bank

Looking Forward to Surprises

Some Fun Facts About Colds

I often ponder what I should write on my blog. But then I figure I should just tell you what I'm thinking about at the time. Because, hey. I've really got nothing else to write about. This week I've been thinking about colds. Head colds. Well, really head colds that settle in your throat and [...]

Wisdom from Charles

            Thanks to a wicked Christmas cold attacking my throat and some rather stringent demands from my day job attacking my sanity, I don't have many creative brain cells left to come up with a blog post today. So I've decided to share with you some wit and wisdom from [...]

A Betsy's Blog Christmas Party

"Christ-mas is coming! The goose is getting FAAATTTT–" Blogosphere? "Please to put a penny in the old man's HAAAAATTTTTT–" Blogosphere! "If you have no penny, a ha' penny will DOOOOOOOOOO…." Blogosphere! Shut up for a minute! What? Oh, hey. How's it going? What are you doing up on that ladder? What does it look like [...]

Twas The Week Before Christmas

Twas The Week Before Christmas by Betsy Horvath     Twas the week before Christmas And out at the mall, A tide of anxiety Threatens us all. The merchants are busy Hawking their wares, While parents pull out What's left of their hairs. The sales clerks are frazzled And just slightly mad, But the stores, [...]

More Than A Hobby

My mother is a wonderful artist. She paints in acryllics and oils and I think she is just brilliantly talented. Over the years she's produced many, many beautiful things. She's sold a lot of her work, but she's never really broken out and made her painting more than a hobby. She's never taken her art [...]