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September 13, 2013
A Solitary Profession?
So the other day my crit partners and I were talking about odd, encouraging, and discouraging things our editors have said to us over the years. It was a wide range from super-cheerleading to “if you don’t make the changes I’m telling you to make (even though they go against your instincts) then you will […]
September 9, 2013
Corporate Espionage, Colonial Style
The brilliant thing about a place like Colonial Williamsburg, the place where I went for a writer’s getaway over Labor Day Weekend, is that it’s packed full of historical interpreters. These tour guides and craftspeople are more or less walking encyclopedias of historical facts and deeper tidbits. And while I didn’t have nearly enough time […]
September 6, 2013
Why I Think The Fifty Shades Movie Will Be A Flop
What a week it’s been. The news has been all over the internet, discussed and debated over dinner tables and water coolers. It’s on everyone’s lips and at the forefront of everyone’s minds. The choices that have been made may affect the course of American history. I’m talking about the announcement of the casting decisions […]
September 4, 2013
2013 Book #25 – The Letter, by Sandra Owens
Whew! It took me forever to read this book, The Letter, by Sandra Owens, but not for any lack of wanting to, believe you me! The Letter is exactly the kind of book I would devour in a matter of days, under normal conditions, but like fate keeps the hero and heroine, Michael and Diana, […]
August 30, 2013
What I Learned About Love From Bill Cosby
When you think of Bill Cosby, you might very well think of Jell-O Pudding Pops or Fat Albert or Temple University (if you’re from Philly) or even some of the most hysterical comedy routines of the last quarter of the 20th century. I’m sure you think about The Cosby Show. That’s certainly what comes to […]
August 28, 2013
In Defense of Sexy Times
Reblogged from Merry Farmer: Earlier this week Sue Santore wrote a blog post about sex scenes in romance novels that I found super interesting. She doesn’t like them. If I’m understanding her post correctly, she believes that they interfere with the flow of the story and are too intimate, like an intrusion on the hero […]
August 26, 2013
History Down the Toilet
As a historical romance writer, I have often found myself asking the weirdest questions of the Universe. How complicated was it to remove women’s underwear in the late 1800s? What did peasants eat in the Middle Ages? How dirty were cities really in the early Industrial Age? And, of course, the topic that has had […]
August 23, 2013
The Story of a Story
This is the story of two characters and a setting who knew what they wanted and one author who had to be convinced that they were right. Yes, it is a true story filled with drama, false-starts, gnashing of teeth, and eventually acceptance and resolve. It is the story of how a novel gets written. […]
August 21, 2013
Stop Author Abuse!
Reblogged from The BookChick: I am making this post as a public service announcement. I just want to encourage all of my fellow readers and bloggers who are Goodreads members to disengage from attacking authors on the site. In the past couple of days, I have seen several Facebook posts by authors of different genres […]
Do Writers Count As Readers?
Here’s a question that has been making the rounds on social media lately. I’ve had it on my mind for a while, but then last week R. L. Syme posted this fascinating article, The Hard Truth About Authors Following Authors that brought the issue back to the front of my mind. So what do we […]
