Jason Mulgrew.  Yeah, I hadn’t heard of him either until about 24 hours ago.  His blog about his dating life gets something like 10,000 hits a day.  People magazine named him one of the "Guys On The Rise" - their title, not mine.  Let’s just say, it sounds as if everyone is familiar with young [...]

My early attempts at writing romance were, let’s just say, not good.  I’d use the word horrendous but, really, that’s just not strong enough to convey utter lack of craft, coherence, characterization, or any other "c" word you can think of (well, most other "c" words).  At this complete lack of talent stage I joined [...]

One of the very cool perks of working with Kensington Brava is that I can get my greedy little paws on copies of upcoming releases before they hit the bookstore, and I am all about being first.  And, yeah, one more month and I make a play for Erin McCarthy’s October releases - all 11 [...]

Every year around this time a magazine  - or ten - provides its readership with the books to read this Summer.  In an effort to prove that I read something other than Entertainment Weekly, although not often, I decided to print the list provided by another fine entertainment magazine - Time.  The article aptly titled [...]

Okay, it’s going to take a few minutes to get around to my point.  This sounds as  if it’s about music.  It’s not.  It’s about writing.  Stick with me.
So, I’m not a country music fan.  In general, it’s just not my thing.  The only person less country music oriented would be the hubby.  He has [...]

In follow-up to yesterday’s post - how many releases in a month are too many from one author?It would seem the answer is: one at a time, thank you.  Maybe not.
It’s no surprise to anyone who stops by now and then that Erin McCarthy is one of my favorite authors.  The fact we’re going to [...]

Entertainment Weekly has an article - more like a graph and a blurb, really - comparing the yearly output of 5 famous, but very different, writers.  It’s called Title Fight: Who’s More Prolific?  And, yes, I read this stupid magazine every week.  And, yes, Nora Roberts is listed in this thing. The general point of [...]

One day a week or so ago Wendy and I were talking.  Actually, we were complaining about the limited number of sites that review romance novels.  Sure, there are some and some of those are great (See:  Smart Bitches, some of the links on my sidebar links and some of the links off RTB) but, [...]

I live in the D.C. suburbs.  The entire area is rich with politicos, lawyers, useless wealthy people, lawyers, lobbyists, students, more lawyers and a few writers.  Some of the writers are of the uptight variety (except my friend Tim - he’s an uptight lawyer, sure, but he gave me the most impressive bouquet of flowers [...]

Did my usual walk through the B&N Daily Top Ten for contemporary romance yesterday.  The list didn’t really change much over the last 6 days.  Either people have stopped buying romance or the same 10 books are purchased everyday by a rotating crop of folks visiting B&N.  The second possibility is more frightening than the [...]