Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
I get the joke. No, I really do. It goes like this: There’s this video of a chimp raping a frog. It’s had over 11 million hits on YouTube. So Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler riffed on this viral video when they put out a free book called “Be the Monkey,” subtitled “A Conversation about the New World of Publishing.”…
If you haven’t already tapped into the current internet publishing world brouhaha that began when Barry Eisler (in response, I think, to a Twitter conversation he had with me and Isobel Carr and a couple of other authors a few days earlier) used an incendiary term in a post on J.A. Konrath’s blog, you’ve got some catching up to do. There…
I don’t like to whine about the difficulties of trying to maintain a professional writing schedule while juggling a full-time job, three kids, a husband, two dogs and three cats. Nobody wants to hear excuses. HOWEVER, I think I must do so to explain why The Lesson Plan is running late and likely to run even later than I’d hoped.…
I’m tired of it. Just. Plain. Sick. What’s getting my goat? The neverending stream of commentary on self-publishing vs traditional publishing. On one side, we have the self-publishing evangelists essentially telling authors they’re idiots to consider traditional publishing because they’ll only be taken advantage of and “there’s gold in them thar hills” if only they’ll give up their ridiculous desire…
It’s been more than a month since I last posted. and yeah, it’s been that kind of a month. But now that my company’s conference is over and I’ve finally gotten my head around this new school pick-up and drop-off schedule (cue the chauffeur pun from Tom & Ray Magliozzi’s Car Talk)), I think I’m ready to really kick the…
Every summer, I over-promise and under-deliver. At least when it comes to producing word count. The kids are at home almost all day, every day. The company I work for has a huge conference sometime between late August and late September every year (this year, it’s late September), and I am heavily involved in the development and delivery of many…
Carnally Ever After was the first manuscript I ever had accepted for publication. I originally wrote it on a dare of sorts from the delightful Ann Aguirre. The story was targeted at Ellora’s Cave for their Naughty Nuptials call back in 2007, but they passed on it. Several months later, Cobblestone Press offered for it and I gladly took up…
After watching the stunning uptick in the Kindle rankings for low-cost romances on Wednesday (see yesterday’s post for the details), I’ve been giving even more thought than usual to digital book pricing. There have been a plethora of posts from various industry professionals bemoaning the rise of the 99-cent novel and its supposedly harmful effect on authors’ (and, by extension,…
I’m sure there will be a follow-up post to this where I’ll explain the situation that led me to write it in more detail, but for several reasons, I can’t discuss all the facts just yet. I do, however, think I can share this one–and it’s something I’m a little ashamed to say I obviously didn’t do. Specifically, authors, when…
Which is a good thing, since unless Cobblestone has slipped the schedule, it will be available for purchase later this afternoon! Here it is: It’s not an exact match to the first two covers in the series because the artist who did those is no longer working for the publisher (mainly, I think, because she has too much other work…