Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
Okay, nothing to do with them being too much or too difficult to prepare or anything like that. But honestly, who in DOG’S name thought that it would be a good idea to have people PAY to e-file? Hello, IRS and Franchise Tax Board–you have said on more than one occasion that efilers save the government money. Their returns require…
Today at our department meeting, we were talking about various personality typing indexes. The most well-known of these is the Myers-Briggs index, which determines your personality type or style based on four “opposing” sets of characteristics: Introverted vs Extroverted Sensing vs iNtuition Thinking vs Feeling Judging vs Perceiving These four characteristics can then be mixed and matched in up to…
Okay, I will make what may be a somewhat shocking confession: I’m really not that big of an Austen fan. Oh, I’ve read the biggies–Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma–but they don’t draw me back for repeat reads over and over again. I’ve enjoyed the movie adaptations I’ve seen, but I haven’t gone out of my way to see…
But that’s because I’ve been quietly plotting world domination…muahaha! Well, that’s not entirely true. I did spend a few weeks under a rock after my option book proposal was…well, not exactly rejected, but postponed by my editor at Kensington. I knew there was a very good possibility of that happening, but when it actually did happen, I was a bit…
Tomorrow morning, I’ll be getting up early and driving up to Orange County. Normally, I wouldn’t be thrilled to be getting up before eight a.m. on a Saturday morning, but in this case, I’m making an exception. You see, I’m going to attend the Orange County Chapter’s meeting, where I’ll be sitting on a panel to talk about the epublishing…
Literally. And Southern California is supposedly in the midst of a terrible drought. Go figure! A rainy day should, of course, be the perfect sort of day to cuddle up in front of the fire with the laptop and write stories set in merry old England. Except…the firewood’s all wet, the fireplace wants cleaning, and the kids are all home…
I’m probably showing my age by posting these lyrics, but I have to say that this is one of my favorite songs ever, and a large part of the reason I love it so much is because words literally send a shiver down my spine. To me, it’s a classic example of a song with lyrics so profound and beautifully…
As I’ve gotten into the nitty-gritty of writing my new novel, it struck me that one of the most important things we writers do when constructing a story is to choose the names of our characters. A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but a heroine named Rose is likelier to catch our readers’ fancy than one…
Sometimes, events conspire to occur in such a way that it’s nearly impossible to believe life is in any way random. So it was at church this Sunday when the sermon title was “Sex and the Bible.” Given that there’s been a bit of dust-up between the erotic and inspirational factions of RWA over the RITAs (again) this past week…
Last week, Emily Veinglory reprinted a fantastically perceptive Absolute Write forum post by Xandra Gregory, a Liquid Silver Books author, on the EREC blog about RWA’s current rules for Published Author Network (PAN) eligibility. I hope Xandra (whom I’ve never met) won’t mind my reproducing here what I think is the most interesting and salient point of her post: RWA’s…