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There is so much stuff that I hardly know where to begin.  Okay.  Let's see…

[image error]From Vanessa at Joyfully Reviewed:

"Anytime Darlin' grasped me from the first page and didn't let go until the last.  I didn't want it to end!  I don't usually care for romantic suspense but I cared about this one.  Ms. Barrett crafted an intelligent, well thought out story that made you care about the characters: Jake and Devlin. It would have been real easy for Jake and Devlin to give into their feelings right from the beginning but these characters had morals and values.  They knew they needed to wait until Devlin grew up and dealt with the traumas of her past and for Jake to reach the settling down point in his life, but once they reached that point . . . the fireworks went off!!"

http://www.joyfullyreviewed.com/new-reviews/anytime-darlin-by-julia-rachel-barrett

Thanks, Vanessa!

There's been some talk about the challenges facing mothers, working or otherwise, who want to be writers – I'm tackling the topic later this week – because believe me, it is a challenge, even when your kids are no longer babies!

Fun and exciting!  I've been asked to speak this Saturday at the Yosemite Valley Romance Writers Group – my topic…Spontaneous Combustion, Writing that First Encounter.  I can't wait!  And I'm thrilled they want to hear from geek-me!  I love that first encounter!

From my Scottish friend who refuses to read any of my work, because he says either he'll think I'm a perv or a horrible writer, and in either case, he'll never look at me the same again – this is a great article, well worth the trip to the UK -

Writing a sex scene is an impossible task
To avoid ridicule, less is more when it comes to writing about sex, advises novelist Jojo Moyes.

"It's a strange career path that can have you debating the use of a throbbing member before your second cup of coffee. But such is the lot (and the minimum caffeine requirement) of a writer about to enter the perilous territory of the sex scene.

Lyrical and metaphorical, or brutally realistic? Queasy Rothian coupling or jolly Cooperesque romp? Either carries a risk your reader will clench their toes, drop your book in horror, or worse, fall about in appalled hysterics. For as novelist Martin Amis observed last weekend, translating the act into print is an impossible task. "It's not that someone's going to hit upon the right way [of describing it]," he said. "There is no right way."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8056890/Writing-a-sex-scene-is-an-impossible-task.html

As a lover of sci fi, I'm sending you over to Rebecca's review of Ender's Game on Dirty Sexy Books.  While this work by Orson Scott Card isn't in my top 40, it is a good book for readers who are into science fiction and those who aren't.  I can't say I managed to finish all the subsequent Ender-related books.  They were, unfortunately, DNF for me.  I think it's important to note that we all read a story with new eyes and we each come from a different perspective.  http://dirtysexybooks.com/2010/10/12/review-enders-game-by-orson-scott-card-1985/

Next ten books:

A Grain of Wheat, by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Brown Girl, Brownstones, by Paule Marshall

You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe

Look Homeward Angel, by Thomas Wolfe

The Web and the Rock, by Thomas Wolfe

Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton

Meetings with Remarkable Men, by G.I. Gurdjieff

Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

The Glass Menagerie, a play by Tennessee Williams

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