Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
If you’ve been following the Amazon delisting debacle (#amazonfail in the Twitterverse and well chronicled in posts on Dear Author here, here, and here), then you probably know that late yesterday afternoon, an Amazon spokesperson announced that it was all just a glitch, not the result of a deliberate policy decision. A lot of folks have been calling shenanigans on…
Okay, it’s Easter Sunday (hope you’re enjoying it!), which is one of the last days of the year I want to wake up to such disturbing news, let alone have to post about it. It seems, my friends, I’ve been amazon ranked. You see, in the past few days Amazon has decided that its customers must be protected from books…
A little over a week ago, I succumbed to a combination of peer pressure, curiosity, and Brent Spiner1 and joined the Twitterverse. I must admit, I’ve been enjoying it–far too much, in fact. When people tried to explain the concept to me, I truly didn’t get it. People would post 140-character blog entries that I could “follow.” But what could…
Now, now, get your mind out of the gutter. (Okay, yes, that’s probably where it belongs when you’re reading the blog of an erotic romance writer, but seriously, I don’t talk about that particular it that much here! I save it for the books.) No, today, I’m mulling about why writers write. More specifically, why I write. I’ve been asking…
Okay, nothing to do with them being too much or too difficult to prepare or anything like that. But honestly, who in DOG’S name thought that it would be a good idea to have people PAY to e-file? Hello, IRS and Franchise Tax Board–you have said on more than one occasion that efilers save the government money. Their returns require…
Today at our department meeting, we were talking about various personality typing indexes. The most well-known of these is the Myers-Briggs index, which determines your personality type or style based on four “opposing” sets of characteristics: Introverted vs Extroverted Sensing vs iNtuition Thinking vs Feeling Judging vs Perceiving These four characteristics can then be mixed and matched in up to…
Okay, I will make what may be a somewhat shocking confession: I’m really not that big of an Austen fan. Oh, I’ve read the biggies–Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma–but they don’t draw me back for repeat reads over and over again. I’ve enjoyed the movie adaptations I’ve seen, but I haven’t gone out of my way to see…
But that’s because I’ve been quietly plotting world domination…muahaha! Well, that’s not entirely true. I did spend a few weeks under a rock after my option book proposal was…well, not exactly rejected, but postponed by my editor at Kensington. I knew there was a very good possibility of that happening, but when it actually did happen, I was a bit…
Tomorrow morning, I’ll be getting up early and driving up to Orange County. Normally, I wouldn’t be thrilled to be getting up before eight a.m. on a Saturday morning, but in this case, I’m making an exception. You see, I’m going to attend the Orange County Chapter’s meeting, where I’ll be sitting on a panel to talk about the epublishing…
Literally. And Southern California is supposedly in the midst of a terrible drought. Go figure! A rainy day should, of course, be the perfect sort of day to cuddle up in front of the fire with the laptop and write stories set in merry old England. Except…the firewood’s all wet, the fireplace wants cleaning, and the kids are all home…