cross-posted at N3 Recently Meg got a negative review from the SmartBitches (Sarah, specifically). It was a strange review – Sarah gave Long Time Gone a DNF – Did Not Finish. Now, DNF usually indicates something very, very wrong with a book – something hugely offensive or shockingly stupid. In this case, though, the problem [...]
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[cross-posted at Nine Naughty Novelists] I don’t write book reviews. As an author, I’m uncomfortable publicly reviewing other authors’ work. But I read a lot of book reviews, and sometimes (depending on the genre and the reviewer), a book review will influence whether I decide to read a book or not. Romance reviews, and romance [...]
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Thank you! I don’t know who you are, but I know that people drop by each day, and I haven’t posted anything in weeks. But I’m going to, very soon… I’ve just started writing a Regency romance, and it’s on my mind a lot, so I’m going to do a long post on real-life romances [...]
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and I don’t care, because I love summer. I first wrote this post in longhand, sitting at a friend’s swimming pool drinking beer and watching the kids play at six o’clock on a Sunday night. I could never do that on a school night – there’d be lunch to pack, last minute school work to [...]
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I’ve never done an online book club, and I figure this is a good one to start with. I spend a lot of time at SmartBitchesTrashyBooks; I enjoy the conversation over there – it’s a group of witty, well-read and entertaining women (and a few guys). Sarah’s hooked up with AllRomanceEbooks, who will be offering [...]
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So the nephew’s official baby debut photo arrived in the mail yesterday. I came home from work to find it on the kitchen counter: Accompanied by the Hub’s plaintive note: We’re an interfaith family – Aggies and Longhorns. My late daddy, my husband, my father-in-law and my brother-in-law are all Aggies. (I’m neither Aggie nor [...]
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The wonderful Laurie Rauch at Samhain has offered me a contract for Rocky Mountain Howl, my first full length novel. It’s set in the same world as Kiss and Kin — in fact, I started writing it long before I wrote KnK. Rocky Mountain’s been in a ton of contests, even placing first in a [...]
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Our family has a new baby this week*. Hope everyone’s Mother’s Day was as happy and relaxing as ours was. *Our larger family, I mean. That’s my nephew. Diva’s still, and permanently, an only.
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Cross posted from N3: Over at Smart Bitches a few months back, Sarah wrote about re-reading Kelley Armstrong’s Bitten and how much she loved it. It started a lively and, as always, intelligent and thought-provoking discussion. Some people loved Bitten, others threw it against the wall. People in the second group tend to hate the [...]
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Cross posted from Nine Naughty Novelists, our inaugural Thursday 13. Here are my (current, at least) favorite 13 Internet videos, in some vague semblance of order from most loved on down: 1. The First 5 Seasons of Lost in 10 minutes – The Reduced Shakespeare Company specializes in boiling classics like Shakespeare, the Bible and [...]
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