by Laura K Curtis | Jul 28, 2014 | Books, Writing
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...
by Laura K Curtis | Jul 21, 2014 | Books, Romance
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...
by Laura K Curtis | Jul 19, 2014 | Books, Writing
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...
by Laura K Curtis | Jul 16, 2014 | Books, Romance
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...
by Laura K Curtis | Jul 14, 2014 | Books, Freebies & Giveaways, Romance, Stuff!
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....
by Laura K Curtis | Jun 23, 2014 | Books