Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
My husband took this on Sunday afternoon of our cat, Oreo, snoozing amid the clean laundry. Naturally, I think it demands a LOLCats caption, but I’m not coming up with anything especially clever. So, help me out here. One lucky captioner (selected at random) will win a $10 gift certificate to the Harlequin ebook store (because, hey, I have to…
Since my recent sale to Spice Briefs (see post below), it occurred to me that a lot of writers out there might not be aware of the opportunities that are available in the short fiction, particularly romance and erotica. I’m thinking of writing an article (which I plan to submit to RWA’s trade publication, Romance Writer’s Report, for consideration). But…
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a proposal out on submission to a few New York houses. Or, I should say, had. Yesterday was the official close date for the project, and although I haven’t received a no from everyone yet, more than half the editors who had it have passed. But the reason authors need Prozac…
So, since the announcement of the new Apple ereader-plus-the-kitchen-sink device, Twitter has been awash with jokes about the name Apple chose for it. They chose not the much-anticipated iSlate or even the iTablet, but the iPad. Seriously? Okay, so I kind of get it–it’s a riff on iPod, and Apple’s hoping this device does for ebooks what the iPod did…
I’ve gotten embroiled today in another Twitter conversation about piracy and one on Dear Author about authors airing their grievances with their publishers in a public forum. The two might seem totally unconnected, and in most ways, they are, but one thing that strikes me is this–when these discussions come up, the first party to get “thrown under the bus”…
Last week, a series of huge storms blew through Southern California. And when I say blew, I do mean “blew.” On Tuesday, the rain was accompanied by particularly large gusts of wind. One of these tore through the neighborhood just as my mom was outside the school waiting to pick up my kids (I was teaching at my office). The…
This article in today’s Publisher’s Weekly, Attributor Study Finds Pervasive Book Piracy is garnering lots of attention in the Twittersphere author community, receiving lots of retweets from many different sources, most of them citing the story’s claim that ebook piracy is “costing” the publishing industry “as much as $3 billion.” Setting aside the fact that the “study” upon which this…
While we were on vacation in Yosemite, my oldest son (12) was playing in the snow in the courtyard with his best friend while my husband and I and the other boy’s parents were inside the lounge having a drink. He honestly wasn’t doing anything that SEEMED particularly dangerous…all the adults had seen what they were doing and shrugged it…
So, I’ve just returned from a rejuvenating vacation in Yosemite National Park, complete with picture-postcard perfect snow and a really kick-ass day of skiing (although, toward the end, it was a bit like skiing in mashed potatoes due to the white-out conditions), and I’ve now got a few minutes to announce my posting schedule for the next few weeks. As…