Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
Introduction Please welcome Joanne Renaud to the blog. While I’m in the Yucatan peninsula soaking up the sun, climbing Mayan pyramids, and trying not to worry too much about whether the book I just finished sucks, she’ll be here to talk about her new book, A Question of Time. Some of you might remember that Joanne is also a talented…
So, Jon Stock, author of the Daily Telegraph post I linked to earlier today, responded to me on Twitter today. Based on our conversation thus far, he seems like a decent fellow although, in my opinion, terribly misguided. His rationales for considering it part of his job to contact reviewers fall into three basic categories. I’d like to address each…
At the risk of sounding like a broken record (do people even understand what that means anymore?), I feel the need to talk about authors responding to reviews. Yes, again. My apologies in advance for beating the dead horse, but apparently, it’s like the old man in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and not quite dead yet. Why do…
If you follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook, you may already have heard that I accepted an offer from Entangled Publishing last week for two books in their Brazen line. These are category-length contemporaries, released pretty much exclusively in digital format, although there could eventually be a print version. For those of you who aren’t…
I’m having a bit of a love affair with this song. The lyrics really speak to me about the challenges of modern romantic relationships. Until today, however, I hadn’t seen the video. Now that have, I love the song and Matt Nathanson himself just that little bit more. Edited: I am having malware issues with my site, which I think…
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’m getting ready to do a major overhaul of my website. As much as I love the look and feel of this template, which Croco Designs did for me quite a few years ago, it’s time for a change, not just for “freshness,” but because I’m branching out into more genres and this…
A natural consequence of writing books with the intention of making a profit from their sale is that the author and publisher (sometimes different entities, sometimes the same) tend to think of the books as having an intrinsic dollar value. In other words, if selling books is your business, you tend to associate a “reasonable” price with those books. What…
By now, I don’t suppose anyone is terribly surprised by the news that some authors (notably self-published “sensation” John Locke) have paid to have reviews posted on Amazon in the hopes of boosting their books’ visibility. (NYT article here.) The fact that it isn’t surprising doesn’t make it any less unethical, but it does make me look at my own…
I’m trying to work my way up to writing 5,000 words every Friday. With my current work schedule, Fridays have become the writing days. I’ve never yet managed more than about 4,000 words in a single day, but I’m hoping with practice, I can exceed that and get to the 5,000-word mark. As part of this, I thought it might…
Once I get the third Lords of Lancashire novella (Thomas’s story) completed and published, I’ll be putting together a print edition of all three novellas as well as a digital “box set”. Of course, the collection needed its own cover art, and I decided to go in a bit of a different direction for the anthology than I have for…