Laura K. Curtis: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense, Crime Fiction

Emotional Manipulation

I have learned, through years of therapy along with a fair amount of self-observation, that I am extremely susceptible to emotional manipulation. For example, I cry at the bloody Christmas ads where the kid comes home and makes coffee. Books do it. Movies do it....

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Another New Year, Still No Resolutions

Last year, I wrote a little about why I don't believe in resolutions. A long time ago I gave up making New Year’s resolutions and switched over to giving myself goals. That may sound like mere semantics, but the two things seem fundamentally different to me. A...

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Sex Sells . . .To Some

Today on Twitter I was wondering if whether romance in general had gotten so hot that authors were no longer writing (particularly single title) R-rated romances. Or even close-to-X-but-not-XXX romances. Many people on Twitter chimed in with suggestions and while some...

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Gift Books for Creative Types

So loads of people are saying "buy my book, it would be a great present." And many of them are probably right. But in case you are in search of something a little different, here's a list of things that might strike a chord with the creative types of all ages in your...

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Back from St. Martin

My husband and I spent last week in St. Martin, where my next book (Echoes, coming March 2015) is set. If you live in New York, it's ridiculously easy to travel to St. Martin, a half-French, half-Dutch island in the Caribbean. My parents bought a timeshare there when...

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The Jaws of Life

Several years ago, I was part of a charity anthology. (You can still buy it on Amazon—Feeding Kate—the profits go to the Lupus Foundation of America. Click the picture at right to see all the fabulous authors who contributed!) The original intent of the anthology was...

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