Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
During a discussion I had on Twitter yesterday regarding the recent uptick in authors being asked by their NY publishers to take a new pen name, often with the intention of masking the author’s previous identity from booksellers, I realized that a lot of people probably don’t understand how print runs are set for books. I know I didn’t really…
I don’t tend to talk much politics on my blog, but every once in a while, it’s a necessity. This is one of those times. In the wake of the deaths of six people, including a 9-year-old girl and a federal district court judge, and the shooting of 13 others, including Gabrielle Giffords, who is miraculously still fighting for her…
I’ve been on pins and needles for what seems like months now to see the cover art for GRACE UNDER FIRE, my upcoming Harlequin Spice Brief (April 1). Today, it came at last and, oh my, was it ever worth the wait. I love everything about this cover. I love the guys in their cravats and waistcoats and coats. I…
I’m bad at New Year’s resolutions, which is why, as a rule, I don’t make them. It’s not just that I seldom KEEP my resolutions that makes me eschew them, however. It’s also that I figure if it’s a good idea to do (or not do) something, it’s just as good an idea on December 31 as it is on…
So, everyone’s been posting their “best reads” lists for the year. I kept putting mine off because I hoped to finish a couple more before the end of 2010 so they could be included on this list. Alas, it’s only five days until the end of the year and I am 99.9% sure I am not going to finish any…
Next month, I have my first new release in almost 18 months. It’s a short story called The Reiver in the Mammoth Book of Scottish Romance. It’s available only in print and has a release date of January 4, although I know sometimes book stores begin stocking a week before the hard release date. (You know, just in case you’re…
The RomanceLandia Twittersphere has been awash with conversations related to this article that appeared in Tuesday’s New York Times: Lusty Tales and Hot Sales: Romance E-Books Thrive. Jessica over at Read, React Review was irritated by the article’s comparison of romance readers to “insatiable carp” while others felt that the article largely put a positive spin on the romance genre…
As I mentioned earlier this month, I’ve never been able to write at a NaNo-style pace (which, I should like to clarify, I don’t even think is particularly fast for many writers–it only works out to about 1,700 words per day if you write seven days a week, which is eminently doable). For me, though, somewhere in the neighborhood of…
Since I posted yesterday about the brouhaha over The Book That Shall Not Be NamedTM, Amazon has seen fit to stop selling the book despite early, vigorous claims that it would not do so. My personal feeling is that Amazon pulled it not so much because of the barrage of complaints and more because, when the book climbed to 80…
So, this morning a shitstorm erupted on Twitter surrounding the fact that Amazon has permitted a self-published Kindle book purporting to be a how-to guide for child molesters to be sold on its site. (I refuse to link to the title of the book because for obvious reasons of not wanting to provide the book any marketing support, however inadvertent.)…