Bookish Meme – What Are *Your* Reading Habits?
I stole this meme from my friend Ros Clarke, because I liked it and I knew she wouldn't mind 🙂 Some of these I can't answer because I honestly have no clue about things like the longest book I've read. A. Author You’ve Read The Most Books From: John D. MacDonald B....
Back from Iceland With Oodles of Pictures!
I could tell you about it, but that would require far too many words. So have some pictures, instead. Click to enlarge. [gallery...
Why Yes, Since You Ask, I Am Out of Town!
I know they say you should never tell people when you go out of town, but we have a friend of my husband's from the fire department who's also former Army who stays at the house when we're gone, so ... you'd probably be better off breaking in when we're there is what...
LOST: Deleted Scene
At conferences and panels, one of the questions that frequently arises is "how do you start writing?" Now, my answer to this is a little different from most: I just write. And I do it because I know I will eventually delete the first scene...or two, or three, or four....
Need to Add to Your TBR Pile? New Books Out Today!
Obviously, I haven't read any of these yet since they just came out today, but I am going to ahead and say they're probably pretty darn good! Molly O'Keefe, Between the Sheets. Any of you who read this blog know O'Keefe is a personal favorite. This is the final...
Post-Conference Thoughts, and My To-Write List
RWA is over and it's left me with some thoughts. Not deep ones, you understand—I rarely have those, and never after a conference. But it did occur to me that the two types of conferences I go to leave me in very different states. In both the mystery and romance...
Small Town Contemporary Romance – How *Does* Everyone Know Your Business?
I love romance of all types, but I must admit a certain fondness for the small town contemporary. However, I occasionally find myself wondering whether the authors of these romances have ever lived in a small town, or whether their definitions of “small town” are just...
Conference Tiffs and the Polite Lie
I love conferences. Love them. But every year, I hear about someone who is no longer speaking to someone else because person 2 insulted person 1—or possibly insulted person 3 who is a friend of person 1—or because person 2 felt as if person 1 ignored them in favor of...
These Are a Few of My Favorite (Self-Published) Things
I've said it before and I'll say it again: It takes far more to interest me in a self-published work than in a traditionally published one. I know that my own self-pub work, Toying with his Affections, which came out today (woohoo!) will face the same struggle for...
Giveaway: Sexy Fun and Games
In Toying With His Affections, the heroine, Evie, sells sex toys for a living. She works for a fictional company called Goody's Goodies that has both retail outlets and a home party arm. Now, before I started writing this book, I knew very little about sex toys. I...