Historical romance author Jo Beverly wrote a very interesting article for RWA’s national magazine, the Romance Writer’s Report, about a topic guaranteed to provoke discussion: plotting vs. pantsing. She calls pantsing “flying into the mist”, and she’s a confirmed, open believer in that technique. All of the books or stories I’ve written, up until this [...]
I’m blogging today over at The Naughty Girls Next Door, so stop by for a chat about excerpts and a chance to win a free copy of LIBERATING LACEY!
One of the fun things about having a website is the ability to see the search engine phrases people typed in to get to this page. For example, I posted about Katherine Heigl and Janet Evanovich, and presto, got a couple of hits from people searching the Internet for those phrases. Yesterday I got a [...]
Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money is going to be made into a movie starring Katherine Heigl (which I’m not thrilled with, but no one asked me. No big surprise there.) The real question, of course, is who’s going to play Morelli?
LIBERATING LACEY won first place in the EPIC Awards Contemporary Erotic Romance category at EPICon last night! I’m truly honored and delighted. Congratulations again to all the finalists in the very competitive category, and to the winners!
I like a brand of tea called Good Earth. The strings attached to the bags have little paper tags on them, and pithy sayings on the tags. Today’s tea bag held the following Danish proverb: He who would leap high must take a long run. Nice. Good for writers, who have to be in it [...]
The sad reality of blogging is that the deeper I get into a book, the less I focus on blogging. My brain’s constantly absorbed with the new characters, leaving fewer neurons for interesting topics of discussion. My bad. For a week or so now, I’ve been thinking about learning. And actually learning, which is a [...]
When I was a brand new mother I read somewhere that new moms talk about sleep like starving people talk about food. I might be able to remember where I’d read that little gem if I wasn’t so sleep deprived the first four years of my son’s life. He didn’t sleep through the night until [...]
I arrived home from lunch with my hero at the same time the UPS delivery guy pulled up, and oh, happy, happy, happy day! My author copies of Liberating Lacey have arrived! It’s very strange, a bit like the world’s a little off kilter, to hold my own book in my two hands. I’ve read [...]
As a writer, how do I know when enough is enough? It’s a big question, covering territory from “enough for today” to “enough prework” to “enough mucking around with that sentence/scene/chapter/book”. It’s a tough question, too. Perfectionists among us always want one more pass, one more read-through. Others, those working under deadlines perhaps, say, “Good [...]
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