I saw this April 2006 chick lit release cover for Girls Who Gossip by Theresa Alan - sorry but that’s as clear as I can get it. Then I looked at it a few more times. I don’t mind cartoon covers or fun covers. Others do. The potential here [...]

I can spend hours in a bookstore. Wander here. Wander there. Check out the new arrivals, bestsellers and those rectangular racks right near the front where the mass markets stick out kind of sideways and you walk around looking at the titles until you get dizzy. But, some days I don’t [...]

I blogged about Emily Davies’ sale here and pointed out my confusion over the popularity of fashionista chick lit. Davies’ agent, Simon Trewin, was nice enough to stop in and talk about why he took on Davies as a client.
Now we have this from Women’s Wear Daily - yeah, not the usual place I find [...]

Here’s my newest pick: Breakwater by Carla Neggers.

Carla Neggers is one of the reasons I enjoy anthologies. A hundred years ago when I started reading romance, I went on a quest to read the entire backlist of Jayne Anne Krentz. In that venture, I found [...]

People ask authors all the time where they get their plot ideas. The answer is simple - from the Plot Idea Store, of course. For $19.99, you get a ready-made plot for a 90,000 work romantic suspense…not.
Ideas come from everywhere - newspapers, things you see, things you think about, things that [...]

Some deals listed in Publishers Marketplace surprise me because, while I like to think I have a base level knowledge of what’s getting published and by whom, I see great sales by authors I’ve really never heard of before. Now, I’ve heard of Lynsay Sands. Her book A Quick Bite is on my [...]

Author/reviewer Lev Grossman is a personal favorite. Whenever I read one of his articles - usually in Time - he cracks me up. I’m not sure if he always means to, but he does. This time he interviewed James Patterson. The article contains the usual and obligatory shots at Patterson - [...]

Some miscellaneous book pimping…
First - According to Barnes & Noble, When Good Things Happen To Bad Boys is shipping. Wonder if that means the rest of my author copies are on the way. Maybe I should order a few from here…hmmm. Regardless of whether I do, you should. Follow that link, [...]

In a post-deadline haze, grande vanilla skim latte in hand, I wandered into my local B&N. This time, like usual, my first stop inside was the new trade paperback table. Love that table. Someday soon hope to be on that table. On this trip, I saw the book Murder on Naked [...]

Here’s my newest pick: Goddess for Hire by Sonia Singh.

This description from the publisher caught my attention: “A hip chick from Newport Beach, California, who’s just turned thirty, discovered she’s the incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali, and happens to be unemployed and still living with her [...]