Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
It seems lately that there’s a growing list of things that authors should either do or not do. Sometimes, there is contradictory advice on the same subject. That’s pretty much the way I feel about the whole YAMafia brouhaha and the question of whether authors should/should not be reviewers. To me, it honestly seems as if someone is going to…
An offhand comment on Twitter the other night by the lovely and talented Gwen Hayes (whose fabulous debut YA romance, Falling Under, was released Mar 1) about romance trading cards quickly snowballed into the real thing. The wonderful Jeannie Lin has been spearheading the effort, collecting the names of participating authors for both RT next month and for the RWA…
…make an animated gif. All by myself and for FREEEEEEE. (I am not terminally cheap, but I am definitely chronically so….) So, here are the results. I’m sure someone with a more expensive software program could make the transitions a little cleaner/smoother, but overall, I am very happy with it :).
Preface: I’m prepared to take some heat for this post. Although I don’t think anything I’m about to say is inaccurate or unprofessional, I expect some people won’t like or agree with what I have to say. That’s okay. I don’t object to dissension, just name-calling. So keep it clean! A few weeks ago, I dipped my toe very gingerly…
…but neither do I share all the trials and tribulations of my writer life in public. I will grouse a bit if writing is not going well, I will mope about rejections, I will even show you my royalty statement (even when it isn’t exactly flattering). Nonetheless, there are a lot of things I can’t and won’t say because, yes,…
I was very excited last summer when I was invited to write a short story for an anthology called The Mammoth Book of Scottish Romance. The print version of the anthology was released earlier this month, but for readers who prefer digital formats to paper, there really weren’t any options…until now. As of today, The Reiver (with gorgeous cover art…
I don’t tend to talk much politics on my blog, but every once in a while, it’s a necessity. This is one of those times. In the wake of the deaths of six people, including a 9-year-old girl and a federal district court judge, and the shooting of 13 others, including Gabrielle Giffords, who is miraculously still fighting for her…
Next month, I have my first new release in almost 18 months. It’s a short story called The Reiver in the Mammoth Book of Scottish Romance. It’s available only in print and has a release date of January 4, although I know sometimes book stores begin stocking a week before the hard release date. (You know, just in case you’re…
The RomanceLandia Twittersphere has been awash with conversations related to this article that appeared in Tuesday’s New York Times: Lusty Tales and Hot Sales: Romance E-Books Thrive. Jessica over at Read, React Review was irritated by the article’s comparison of romance readers to “insatiable carp” while others felt that the article largely put a positive spin on the romance genre…
As I mentioned earlier this month, I’ve never been able to write at a NaNo-style pace (which, I should like to clarify, I don’t even think is particularly fast for many writers–it only works out to about 1,700 words per day if you write seven days a week, which is eminently doable). For me, though, somewhere in the neighborhood of…