My big WIP placed second in the Yellow Rose Contest, from the Fort Worth chapter of RWA. I’ve finalled once before, but didn’t place, and this is the first time I got to see the score matrix. My scores varied widely by judge, as did the comments (see my post here about [...]

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Actually, I don’t want my mother to look.  She’d die if she saw this cover, and she’d die all over again if she read the sex scenes, so let’s just leave Mom out of the whole thing.
But other than that – CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?  I have a book!  Kiss and Kin is an e-book, [...]

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Excerpt Monday was so heavily attended that Bria and Mel decided to get it organized.  So they made a blog and spent a lot of time and effort to make it look good (and succeeded!)  From the EM home page you can get to the blogs of all the writers participating this month.  At the [...]

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I’ve spent the day with a hellacious cold – I’d be thinking flu if I weren’t prone to the allergy-cold-bronchitis triple whammy I get so often – AND I have a horrible case of pink eye.  My right eye is nearly swollen shut, and I look like a mutant.  It’s scary looking.
So the Hub took [...]

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Some romance writer hopefuls don’t like doing contests.  I’m rather hooked on them.
For those of you who don’t write romance:  most chapters of Romance Writers of America hold contests for published and unpublished authors.  These contests are judged in two rounds: the first round by chapter members, usually published authors, and the final round by [...]

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