Personal Update
Many of you already know this, but some of you may not. (You may also not care—feel free to move right along if you're here for the freebies; there'll be another of those tomorrow.) The past month or so has been exceedingly tough, but things are looking up and I have...
Another Nail Art Giveaway! Nailed It by Espionage Cosmetics
The 24 individual manicure pods were won, but the nail art fabulousness doesn't stop there! Since a manicure even gets a mention in Toying With His Affections, today I am giving away three sets of nail strips from Espionage Cosmetics. Evie wears plain red nail polish,...
Trailer Time! LOST Goes Lego!
Literary Romance and Romantic Literature
Last night I posed a question on Twitter. I wanted some recommendations for books that had romances in them but had a literary fiction tone. There was some back and forth on what literary fiction is, as one would expect, but I thought I would post the list of...
Firehouse Cookies
I originally published this recipe in 2012 on my now-defunct TorchSongs GlassWorks blog. As anyone who knows me knows, I make cookies all the time for the guys at the the local firehouse. These seem to be the favorites. Because one of the guys (hi, Matt!) asked for...
Giveaway: Nails Galore!
Conference season is upon us and when I was at RT recently, I spent a great deal of time talking about manicures with people. I have never had a manicure except when one of my friends insisted that everyone in her wedding party have one. I hated it. I bit my nails...
The Summer of Self-Pub: How to Get My Next Book Half Off
Many of you know I will be publishing my first contemporary romance this summer. This is my cover. Isn't it pretty? And here's the cover copy: Good girl gone bad... Evie Bell couldn’t wait to get out of the small town that had labeled her a goodie two-shoes growing up...
Since Every Relationship is Individual, Does Gender Matter in Romance?
In one of those weird coincidences, my tweetstream and my email box are full of the same thing today: discussions of relationships and sexuality. It started with an article that was, I think, meant to be a puff piece to shine a light on women who write male/male...
In NYC? Love a Good Mystery? Come Visit the Library!
On Thursday evening, I'll be on a panel with some really cool people at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. You can find details on the library's site, but here's the flyer:
What’s in a Query? Everything and Nothing.
When I tell people that I've never written a query that didn't result in a request for pages, they can't believe it. When I tell them I ever sent out three (or six if you count the random assignments I was given to pitch to at conferences) queries, they are shocked....