Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
So, after Saturday’s look into the statistical improbabilities involved in NY publishing, I first want to add a few caveats. Because, while statistics say a lot about how hard it is to get published in NY and stay there, they don’t say much about individual experience. In other words, statistics provide generalities, but assuming that they apply perfectly to you…
…or What RWA Would Rather You Didn’t Know about Publishing. I hate math. But sometimes, it is very useful to illustrate a point. Getting an agent (or at least, a good, reputable one) is hard. Most estimates say agents offer to represent about 1% of the authors whose projects come across their desks. Realistically speaking, although there are many more than 200 reputable…
Well, I got to this so late today that I’m afraid all I can manage is a list of things that have made me say WTF at least once today: The continuing fallout from the Iranian election fiasco. Let’s hope we see real change for Iranian people as a result of this. They deserve it. Otherwise, WTF? Read an article…
Happy Tuesday, everyone! As you may or may not recall, a couple of weeks ago I dubbed this day of the week TV Tuesday, and promised to spend it talking about my favorite shows and why I love them. Today, I thought I’d do my homage to TNT’s The Closer, which stars Kyra Sedgewick as Brenda Lee Johnson, a Southern…
I wasn’t going to post anything today, but then I read this fabulous post on Zoe Winters’ blog. (Don’t worry, I’ll be waiting for you when you get back from reading it.) A few minutes after that, I started chatting with one of my critique partners about how easy it is to fall into the trap of measuring your own…
Today, I just heard that Twitter appears to be imposing per hour Tweet limits of 50 per hour per account, even though the API limit is 100 per hour. (If you have less than 100 followers, I gather you are classified as a “small” account and only get 20 per hour.) If you exceed your 50 or 20 per hour…
Sorry, no TV Tuesday feature this week. I had to go into the office today and never got a chance to get a post up as a result. I THINK we have WTF Wednesday tomorrow, barring “incidents,” but if not and you’re hankering for some Jackie thoughts, hop on over to Southern Fried Chicas where I’m talking about what you…
I am so pleased to have multi-New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros with me here today for a long and rambling chat about one of our favorite fictional universes. But as you can tell (despite the rather misleading bookcover posted at right), it’s not the Regency universe we’re all agog over (despite the fact that we both write stories…
When Amie Stuart suggested WTF Wednesday as a title for a regular feature (I had just invented yesterday’s TV Tuesday), I thought it was a fun idea and figured I’d use the space to discuss weird things that just make you go “WTF?” Then I got the June issue of Romance Writer’s Report (RWR), the monthly magazine published by Romance…
As I was casting about for topics for today’s blog, it occurred to me that I twitter quite a bit about TV shows I like, but rarely talk about them otherwise. I suppose that’s partly because, for a while, I was kind of a TV snob–that is, I didn’t really watch anything except PBS and sports (oh, the hours I…