There are days I miss working on Capitol Hill. Then there are the other 360 days a year…
According to the Book Standard, The House of Representatives (the “we need less government regulation not more” folks) passed legislation to amend the Children’s Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act to include books “under the same [...]

According to Bookscan, the top 15 romance bestsellers for the week ending February 26th were:
1 IMPOSSIBLE, Danielle Steel
2 CORDINA’S ROYAL FAMILY: GABRIELLA & ALEXANDER, Nora Roberts
3 RED LILY, Nora Roberts
4 THE QUINN BROTHERS: SEA SWEPT/RISING TIDES, Nora Roberts
5 JUDE’S LAW, Lori Foster
6 THE MACGREGORS: ALL THE POSSIBILITIES\ONE MAN’S [...]

The New Part: You can now preorder Viva Las Bad Boys at Amazon. Last I checked (and I will now start checking every single day) it was #270,711 - wahoo! Go order a copy for every person you know… I’m thinking 40 or 50 copies should do it to start…
The Unusual [...]

I admit to following the Romantic Times ratings much closer these days than I did before being published. My memory of ratings of the past were that most books received very good ratings and anything below 3 Stars was rare. I specifically remember a big brouhaha when one of the first Blaze books [...]

My March 1st book deadline has come, gone and been met…that last part is a bit of a miracle. This deadline was tight. It didn’t start out that way, but it ended that way. At the time I accepted the contract, I had 4 months to write the single title. I [...]

This week’s Washington Post Book World has an article on turning books into movies called, interestingly enough, Making Books. The underlying theory appears to be that when famous writers stopped putting down Hollywood and, instead, started seeing movies as book vehicles then a funny thing happened - books started to change movies and vice [...]

These book sale announcements suggest that Bantam Dell is testing the erotic romance market. Maybe this isn’t new. Maybe I missed the announcement. Maybe I’m reading more into this than I should. Maybe no one but me cares…
FICTION: WOMEN’S/ROMANCE
Eden Bradley’s THE DARK GARDEN, about the emotional and physical journey of a [...]

I’m one of the contributors to the relatively new author blog All A-Blog at Access Romance. That is my clever way of saying: I’m blogging over there today.
With my deadline now behind me, I’m way too tired and lazy to come up with two blog entries for two different blogs on [...]

Paperback Reader has a new home. That is my way of saying CHANGE YOUR BOOKMARKS AND LINKS…
Isn’t it pretty? I can’t take even an ounce of credit for the new look. Wendy did everything. If she had a question she smartly asked Kassia, or any other human on the planet, and [...]

I’ve made a decision. Okay, another decision. I love books and love reading about books - that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who stops by here. So…once a week I’m going to highlight a new or upcoming book from a new author, new-to-me-author or author favorite - my blog, so I [...]