I’m going to whine about a review I got for my anthology. This lovely, all-knowing woman lambasted me for having the hero and heroine meet and declare their undying love in three days. She really, really hated that the hero and heroine married six months later. How could I do …
In the first couple years of my publishing career, I gave quite a few talks. It was a lot of fun as people really seem to enjoy meeting authors and they are very accepting of them being human (meaning they overlooked my faults and screw ups—like the time my …
Have any of you been following the campaign raging in Texas for comptroller? The two candidates are Fred Head (real name) and Susan Combs. Susan published a novel back in 1990 for Meteor Kismet, a publisher that Brava editor Kate Duffy once worked for.
Fred is calling Susan’s traditional (read: non-erotic) romance novel “pornographic” and has posted excerpts of her book on his campaign website.
Here’s the latest article, which notes how Fred has angered many, many romance authors:
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4267264.html
And here’s Fred’s website:
www.votefredhead.com
What do you think?
Joke of the day:
Not too long ago I was having one of those days. Good faith, not to mention patience, had gone out the window by noon, by which time I’d already had to deal with my husband (who I was mad at), my manuscript (which was NOT working), the principal of …
I’ve had people ask me if I just sit down at the computer and start writing or what. No, I don’t. I have to get in the right mindset before I start writing. That’s very important for me.
I recently went out and bought a great …
