My first ever stack of cover flats arrived in the mail today. All 75 of them. What an amazing thing. Seeing my name on the cover of a book and holding it in my hand, well, it feels even better than I imagined it would.
While I can’t imagine it right now, [...]

The New York Times has named the 100 Notable Books Of The Year. Uh-huh, page through that list and see how many you’ve read. Notice all the nonfiction choices. Kind of makes me wonder why people keep saying nonfiction is dead. Looks like it’s alive and kicking at the NYT.
Somehow the [...]

Everyone has reading pet peeves. Those things that make your head spin. For example, I want to scream every single time I see the word “sinewy” in a romance novel. Don’t know why. It’s a legitimate word. Just bugs the hell out of me. In this article, the reader [...]

Over the last year RWA (Romance Writers of America) came under scrutiny for some of the - let’s just say it - dumbass choices the Board made concerning book covers and the definition of romance. Stuff the organization should not have touched, in my view, because it’s an organization designed to serve and support [...]

Chick lit means different things to different people. One group is of the designer clothes, city gals and Sex In the City mindset. Others fall into the way of thinking that goes: Look, more shallow crap wrapped in pink cotton candy-looking covers.
Apparently there’s another school of thought in [...]

When I think of Jay McInerney, I think of Bright Lights, Big City. And it will always be so. His new book aims to change that. McInerney describes his upcoming release The Good Life as a love story.
I should add straight up that it’s a story of illicit love, of two [...]

Walter Mosley made an appearance in The Washington Post Book World on Sunday in the form of an article instead of a book review. He talked about how, when he started writing, well-established writers gave him two pieces of advice: keep politics out of fiction and remember poetry is an inaccessible form [...]

Publishers Lunch included this book sale announcement on Saturday:
Kayla Perrin’s GETTING EVEN, in which three women plot delicious revenge on the men who have betrayed them — a younger generation’s “First Wives Club” with more sex and no plastic surgery, to Susan Pezzack at Harlequin’s Spice, for publication in May 2006, by Helen Breitwieser at [...]

I usually prefer B&N to Amazon. Not anymore. Amazon is now my favorite book-selling venue ever. See, Amazon actually has the book cover up and includes my name as one of the authors.
Now, there’s still something freaky going on. You search for me on Amazon and [...]

Ever buy a book because you thought an author’s backstory was that interesting? It happens to me now and then. The most recent was Krya Davis. The fact I liked her book’s cover blurb didn’t hurt either.
Yesterday I stumbled across a book I might not normally pick up and buy. Then [...]