I’m leaving for San Francisco this afternoon.* I’ll be at the RWA conference all week and, depending on the internet access, will blog from there. In the meantime, here’s the photo of me in front of Iron Man at Comic-Con last weekend. Forgive the quality. It’s from a cellphone.

*Someone is staying [...]

I survived Comic-Con. Huge numbers of people, unbelievably long lines, interesting costumes, several barely dressed women, other women dressed as Disney characters (no, really), a guy wearing only a codpiece and a cape, sightings of cast members from Eureka, The Office and the upcoming movie, Terminator Salvation, and a Lou Ferrigno sighting where he [...]

I am ignoring the traffic and crowds and heading to the San Diego Convention Center for a day of Comic-Con. Never been there before. And, no, I will not be wearing a costume. Never going to happen. In fact, it will take a significant amount of self-censorship for me not to make fun [...]

I’m a fan of romantic suspense author Penny McCall. She writes sexy adventure with a lot of humor, which is not easy. Her upcoming release is called ACE IS WILD. Don’t have it yet, but I plan to get it this weekend.
Here’s the copy:
When beautiful clairvoyant Vivienne Foster starts [...]

Findings from a British survey earlier this year as reported in the Daily Mail:
Women stop reading serious literature and turn to ‘chick-lit’ after having children, research suggests.
Mothers were shown to swap novels and non- fiction for lighter reads including celebrity autobiographies by the likes of Victoria Beckham and Jordan.
Sixty per cent of mums admit they [...]

Did everyone else know that Brenda Jackson hit the NYT with a Kimani Romance? In getting caught up on my reading of Romantic Times, I saw this huge fact. Somehow I missed it before now.
And why, you ask, is this a big deal? First, category romance (Harlequin/Silhouette series books) rarely hit [...]

If you are the creative sort, this might be for you…
SHOMI (the Dorchester fantasy fiction line) and Stephen King - yeah, that Stephen King - are teaming up on a book trailer contest. Your job is to create a fabulous book trailer based on your favorite SHOMI book. King will pick the winner. [...]

I’m at Access Romance today talking about my weekend booksigning and answering any question you have…well, to the extent I know the answer.

I’m off to the Los Angeles Romance Authors monthly meeting. I’m speaking on an author panel with Jina Bacarr, Charlene Sands and Fronnie Lewis. We’re talking about writing and blogging. Will report back…

I thought I would bore you with what I’m reading post-deadline. It was either that or go off on how much I hate most reality television. I will spare you the diatribe and stick with the books.
In addition to DANGEROUS TO TOUCH by Jill Sorenson and PLEASURE UNBOUND by Larissa Ione, which I’ve [...]