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May 24, 2013
2013 Book #13 – Faking It, by Jennifer Crusie
*happy sigh* I love Jennifer Crusie. The way she writes is just so entertaining. I loved Welcome to Temptation, and when the friend who loaned me that book said, “There’s a sequel, you’ve got to read that one too”, well, that was the easiest sell in history. I went in to Faking It with high […]
May 22, 2013
Dealing with Critiques and Reviews - the 40-20-40 Rule
Reblogged from Angela Quarles | Geek girl romance writer: One of my earliest blog posts was about dealing with critiques and I shared what I called the 30-40-30 rule that I learned from my uncle. Well I just had a short vacation with said uncle and found out I had the percentage wrong! He said […]
Is Self-Publishing Right For You?
It’s recently come to my attention that I’m doing pretty darn well as a self-publisher. My sales numbers have been steadily growing, I’m gaining more followers every day, and my latest novel, Fool for Love, has been sitting in the top ten on iBooks list of paid historical romance for over a week. Not too […]
May 20, 2013
Was the Gilded Age the Best of Times or the Worst of Times?
I don’t remember what the first run-in I had with the term “Gilded Age” was, but for whatever reason, it has always stuck out to me. Gilded is golden, right? Golden is good. Furthermore, the town that I grew up in was founded towards the end of the Gilded Age and shares many characteristics of […]
May 17, 2013
Top 5 Non-Traditionally Romantic Movies
There’s nothing like a good, romantic movie to curl up with on a lazy evening. I’ve always been a sucker for them. But the other day as I was driving home from the day job, thinking about some of my favorite romantic stories, it dawned on me that some of my favorite romantic movies are […]
May 15, 2013
Can a Genre Die?
My little corner of the writer’s world was all in a tizzy last week after an article published at Dear Author that suggested that the Historical Romance genre be allowed to die. Oh horror! Of course, when you read the article you see that what the author of Dear Author was getting at is that […]
May 13, 2013
Martha Matilda Harper and the Invention of the Franchise
A couple of weeks ago, when I was doing research about 19th century hairstyles, I stumbled across the remarkable story of Martha Matilda Harper. Never heard of her? Neither had I, but she is an amazing woman! I had to share. This is a remarkable 19th century success story about courage, perseverance, and sheer, stubborn […]
May 9, 2013
Talking with Constance Phillips about Resurrecting Harry
Today my special guest is a fellow writer and friend of mine, Constance Phillips. I read and enjoyed her first book, Fairyproof, and when I heard that her second novel was out, a delicious story about none other than Harry Houdini and his wife, Bess, I couldn’t resist asking her to come by to talk [...]
May 7, 2013
How NOT To Write A Series
More often than not these days, it seems as though every story is told as a series. Whether it’s books, movies, or TV shows, series are the format of choice. And why not? Once you get hooked on a world, on the characters and storylines that inhabit it, you want to see more and more [...]
May 6, 2013
Being Gay during Regency Times-When True Love Might Not Always Mean a Happily Ever After
Reblogged from Rakes Rogues and Romance: I've never been one for cookie cutter romance novels, although god knows I've read enough of them. Although I am aware that the Hero and the Heroine will eventually meet, have problems, overcome said problems and end up together, it's always about the journey along the way. But writing [...]
