Like the title of the post? Yeah, it’s extreme and a bit dramatic. It came to mind while I was reading this article by Melanie La’Brooy concerning chick lit and the amount of anger and derision that seems to be heaped upon it these days. La’Brooy is the author of Romantic Fiction [...]

Got the okay to show the cover for my August 2006 release - yeah! Here is Viva Las Bad Boys. The Kensington art department did a really nice job of capturing the feel of the book. I like the eye-catching look. Not hard to tell this one doesn’t take [...]

There appears to be a tendency among writers to marry other writers. Look at Tabitha and Stephen King. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, and there are others. The careers don’t always launch at the same time. Many times, one partner is more successful than the other. [...]

For those who love reading Harlequin’s Signature Select and those trying to write for Select, I have some bad news - it’s shutting down. The line will publish through June 2006 then no more. Admittedly I never really understood Select or what was supposed to set it apart from the rest of [...]

I came across a book called The Tent by Margaret Atwood. Came across in the sense that I read about it in Elle. While you may not think of Elle as a repository of book knowledge, let me tell you it highlights some interesting stuff.
The fact Atwood has a book coming out [...]

The Funeral Planner by Lynn Isenberg was one of those books I kept looking at and finally bought. For some reason, the cover stayed with me. Yesterday I was checking in at Chick Lit Books and saw an upcoming release by Leslie Carroll called Spin Doctor.
I’m thinking these [...]

If I live to be 108 (and I kind of hope I don’t because that’s just too long), I will never understand the whole “John Smith writing as James Patterson” thing. Unless I missed something, James Patterson is a living, breathing author. Sure, there might be some debate on the author part, [...]

Every now and then I come across a book or series of books that normally would not appeal to me and, well, decide for whatever reason that I simply must read it/them. This time it’s books by author Lauren Willig. Everything I know about Willig I read in three minutes on her [...]

I am a big believer in the idea that some authors are more prolific than others, and that the difference in productivity does not say anything about their respective talents. Having said that, I do have to admit that there was a romance author I avoided in 2005 specifically because she had so many [...]

Writers get asked all the time where their ideas come from, as if there is a big book of story ideas out there somewhere and we all get to pick ten. That’s not true, by the way… On Sunday The Washington Post highlighted a book that proves ideas come from everywhere. PostSecret: [...]