A couple of weeks ago on one of my loops my friend Cecelia Dowdy mentioned this blog. The blog is one of those supposedly positive articles about romance writing which winds up to be insulting anyway. “You only have to read one. They are all the same.” Oh, yeah???? “These books are admittedly too simply [...]
Saturday I met a friend for a late lunch/early dinner. The friend, Lizzy Ford, is someone I only met in person once before, and I have only the dimmest memory of that event, the Washington Romance Writers Christmas party six years ago. What I do remember very well was the email exchange Lizzy and I [...]
Be on good behavior today. We have a guest. My friend Colleen Gleason is here to talk about her new adventure in publishing. Colleen and I are both members of the Wet Noodle Posse, the 2003 Golden Heart finalists. She has written not one, but two Regency vampire series. The Gardella series features a vampire [...]
Please welcome my friend Trish Milburn, who is here today to tell us about her new women’s fiction, Living in Color. To celebrate its release Trish will give away a $10 Starbucks card to one lucky commenter chosen at random, the perfect prize for a road trip story! Trish and I know each other through [...]
When my son was in elementary school he dreaded book reports. He just never could find books that interested him. Nothing he found ever had enough excitement to keep him wanting to read. This was before J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the renaissance in children’s reading that her books sparked. Books like The Youngest Templar series. Michael Spradlin’s The Youngest Templar series [...]
You’ve heard me mention my friend and critique partner, Darlene Gardner, Superromance author extraordinaire! Today I’m thrilled to have Darlene as my guest. Darlene’s latest book, That Runaway Summer, is on bookshelves this month. That Runaway Summer is the fifth and final book in Darlene’s Superromance series, Indigo Springs. “I just couldn’t put the book [...]
At the RWA conference Harlequin presented to their authors the results of a survey which, among other nice things about romance readers, revealed that they are more likely than readers of other genres to read all kinds of books, not just romances. So, readers, here’s a brand new author for you to try, a very special one! [...]
Today I’m honored to have Linda Fildew, Senior Editor of Mills and Boon Historical and Harlequin Historical, here to talk about Harlequin Historical Undone. My prize today, for one lucky, randomly-chosen commenter, is a signed, hardback version of The Mysterious M, my first book, the book that started me on this wonderful life of mine. It was [...]
