It’s that time of year.  The go-to-Vegas-and-spend-the-kids’-milk-money weekend.  Really, we don’t have kids and we’re paying someone to stay at the house to watch our four-legged critters, so no one need call Children Services or Animal Services or any other Services.  Don’t try to rob us either.  Our house sitter can kick your butt and [...]

I know this will disappoint Candy, but I’ve read every one of Linda Howard’s books.  Every.  Single.  One.  Loved ‘em too.  Yes, I did.  From Duncan’s Bride to After The Night, I couldn’t get enough.  When she wrote about the MacKenzie family, I wanted the parents to produce more kids so I could read their [...]

There is an ongoing debate, sometimes in public and sometimes in private whispers, about the quality of ebooks.  There appears to be a general sense that you only turn to epublishing if you’re not that good or if all the traditional publishing houses hate your stuff - which may be code for, you’re not good.
I’m [...]

Eloisa James (aka Mary Bly) is a NYT bestseller, a highly regarded romance writer and a Shakespeare scholar and professor.  She’s married to a professor.  She is  the daughter of an award-winning poet father and a literary writer mother.  When she originally wanted to expose her secret life and let her academic colleagues at Fordham [...]

The Jennifer in question is Jennifer Crusie.  Almost all romance writers seem to have a Jennifer story.  Many have heard her speak.  Try to find one who hasn’t read her books  - other than me.  But, in my defense, I’ve purchased several.  Just haven’t gotten to them yet.  They are June reads, I promise.  She’s [...]

I spent the weekend in West Virginia at the Washington Romance Writers (WRW) Retreat.  Why this retreat is in West Virginia is more for historical reasons than anything else so don’t  pull out a map and try to explain how Washington DC and West Virginia are not the same place.  I get that.  The Retreat [...]

So, I leave for a few days for a writer’s retreat and - BAMMM - I get "tagged" (whatever that is) by Wendy and the Smart Bitches.  Gee, ladies, thanks.  And, ummm, who started this thing?  I just want to know who should get the box of, err, chocolates.
Here we go….
Total Number of Books [...]

So, you get the call and you celebrate.  You experience a huge rush relief and gratitude.  You have a moment or two of wallowing in your greatness until you remember, oh yeah, you’re not so great.  You plan where you’ll build your vacation house once you hit the NYT bestseller list which, of course, is [...]

Just when it appeared some romance writers had hit a low - well, look at that - they dug a little deeper.  Apparently the constant bickering between the authors of sexy books and the authors of tame books wasn’t enough to make us look small and kind of silly.  The idea of blackballing authors we [...]

Every single day a new description pops up in an attempt to distinguish one group of hot and sexy books from another.  You need a scorecard, a dictionary and a brown paper book cover just to keep up.  I also need numerous explanations from Wendy, Candy and this poor woman, Stef, who answered some of [...]