Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
One of the perennial frustrations of being published by one of the traditional print publishers is that it takes forever to get any hard data on how your books are selling. The typical print publishers put out royalty statements twice a year–one in May covering the previous July to December’s sales and another in December covering January to June. True,…
The lovely Maisey Yates pointed out to me on Twitter this morning that GRACE UNDER FIRE was #18 on the Coming Soon list on Amazon Kindle for All Books. After a little digging, I discovered the book is at #10 in Fiction and #1 (you read that right, #1!) in Erotica. I’m stunned. Stunned and thrilled. And I’m sure it…
It seems lately that there’s a growing list of things that authors should either do or not do. Sometimes, there is contradictory advice on the same subject. That’s pretty much the way I feel about the whole YAMafia brouhaha and the question of whether authors should/should not be reviewers. To me, it honestly seems as if someone is going to…
Today, Avon (the division of HarperCollins, not the makeup distributor) announced the launch of its new digital imprint, Avon Impulse. In addition to digital books, at least some of their titles will be available as print-on-demand. This move comes as absolutely no surprise to me, as I suspect almost all of the traditional print presses are going to have digital-first…
An offhand comment on Twitter the other night by the lovely and talented Gwen Hayes (whose fabulous debut YA romance, Falling Under, was released Mar 1) about romance trading cards quickly snowballed into the real thing. The wonderful Jeannie Lin has been spearheading the effort, collecting the names of participating authors for both RT next month and for the RWA…
…make an animated gif. All by myself and for FREEEEEEE. (I am not terminally cheap, but I am definitely chronically so….) So, here are the results. I’m sure someone with a more expensive software program could make the transitions a little cleaner/smoother, but overall, I am very happy with it :).
Preface: I’m prepared to take some heat for this post. Although I don’t think anything I’m about to say is inaccurate or unprofessional, I expect some people won’t like or agree with what I have to say. That’s okay. I don’t object to dissension, just name-calling. So keep it clean! A few weeks ago, I dipped my toe very gingerly…
In about twenty minutes, I’ll be heading over to my kids’ middle school to watch my 11-year-old daughter compete in the 6th grade spelling bee. I have not attended a spelling bee in (mumble mumble) years. Not since I competed in one. Because, you see, it was one of the greatest injustices of my life and I have never really…
…but neither do I share all the trials and tribulations of my writer life in public. I will grouse a bit if writing is not going well, I will mope about rejections, I will even show you my royalty statement (even when it isn’t exactly flattering). Nonetheless, there are a lot of things I can’t and won’t say because, yes,…
I was very excited last summer when I was invited to write a short story for an anthology called The Mammoth Book of Scottish Romance. The print version of the anthology was released earlier this month, but for readers who prefer digital formats to paper, there really weren’t any options…until now. As of today, The Reiver (with gorgeous cover art…