Happy Holidays
Don the Kitten (that’s short for Don Quixote) says Happy Holidays. He was “helping” me wrap presents yesterday. His twin sister looks just like him; her name is Dulcinea (Dulce for short). And that’s it for me in ’06. See you in ’07, where I’ll pick up on January 3rd with the first Workshop Wednesday. [...]
Ebook Thursday
What’s this, you say? Is that a new holiday? Well, yes and no, dear readers. To (try and) avoid boring crap on my blog, I’m working out a posting schedule. Smart Bitch Monday is already out there, so I’m adding a couple of categories to my own roster. Among them are Workshop Wednesday and Ebook [...]
PSA – Mistral’s Kiss
A fellow reader was kind enough to email me a warning regarding this novel. She writes: Mistral’s Kiss is not worth it. I’m not even sure it’s more than 5 hours from front to back and there is a more than 100 page sex scene. I gave up reading around page 50 and skimmed the [...]
Behind the scenes
I’ve got a lot cooking right now, but I have to be hush-hush about the changes coming down the pike until the new year. Since I’m leaving Dec. 16 and I’ll be traveling through Mexico and the US over the holidays and won’t be blogging, I won’t have a hard time keeping my secrets. (Oooh, [...]
Free Fic: Loser’s Waltz
Today I’m celebrating the serial novella I’m writing for your entertainment pleasure. Here’s the blurb, if you haven’t clicked on the freebie link before now. Saralee Waltz is a waitress who once wanted to be a dancer. In her free time, she talks to her snotty Siamese cat and watches HSN, though she never buys [...]
SBD: The MarySue Litmus Test
Riffing from SBTB, where they’re talking about LKH, the diva-rockstar of MarySue phenom, I offer a link to the Litmus Test. Yep, that’s right, I ran my characters through the quiz to see if I was heading in that direction. You too can test your heroines (and heroes) to see if they’re too awesome for [...]
10 Things I will not do as a romance novelist (no matter how famous I become)
10. Pose on the back of the cover, trying to look like my heroines. 9. Name any of my heroes Nick. 8. Write a heroine who makes TSTL decisions to compensate for my weak plotting. 7. Let a hero get away with treating his heroine like shit in the name of the “Alpha” archetype. 6. [...]
Review: Poison Study
Poison Studyby Maria V. Snyder (Sidenote – I like the new cover a lot more. This chick looks like she belongs on the cover of Seventeen and did not fit my image in any fashion of a woman who has been in a dungeon for over a year). At the beginning of the novel, Yelena [...]
The Writing Life
Sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes I feel like my family doesn’t understand that what I’m doing is actual work. Sometimes I think they see it as me screwing around on the computer so I don’t have to spend time with them, and sometimes the guilt becomes too much, so I set my writing aside, spend days [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
Not much writing going on here lately. I’ve been scrambling, lots of kid related activities. Two more parties in the forthcoming week. So I’ve been baking and cleaning and decorating. So it’s Thanksgiving today. Nobody celebrates it here. It’s not a holiday. The kids had school as usual, which meant I had to hustle to [...]