ARTICLES FOR READERS
The old site had hundreds of articles on it. We’ve preserved them on a hard drive and I will be gradually adding them back onto this site, once they’ve been updated, or once I’ve annotated them — some of them are getting old! But there’s still good stuff in those articles that belong here. Check back regularly!
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Reading Resources
4 Ways to Whittle Your TBR Pile Down FAST!
5 Shortcuts for Finding Your Next Great Read in Record Time
8 Warning Signs You Are Addicted to Time Travel Romance
About The Industry – All Romance eBooks Trend Analysis for 2011
Advantages And Drawbacks Of Both Paper And Pixel Books
Are Print Books Really Doomed?
Are Print Publishers Really Doomed?
Are you missing out on the good stuff?
Are Your Amazon Reviews Being Deleted? Here’s Some Reasons Why (and what to do about it).
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland Series
Part 1: Romanceland Meltdown
Part 2: Finding Books – Part 1
Part 3: Finding Books – Part 2
Part 4: Assessing Books
Part 5: Contributing To Word-of-Mouth
Author Hack for Amazon Readers
Because Indie Legacy Published Books Are Full of Typos
Blog. Newsletter. What’s the difference?
Can’t Afford An eReader? How to Read eBooks Now…For Free
Can’t Keep up? 9 Ways to Simplify Your Romance eBook Collection
Part V: Heart Stopping Moments
Part VI: Uncertainty of Outcome
Part VII: The Moment of Ultimate
Part VIII: Happy Ever After…For Now
ePub Reader Software For Cellphones & Tablets Compared.
Get Organized – Transitioning to Paperless Reading
How Safe Is Your Romance Collection from Retailer Raids? –3 Hacks For Protecting Your Books
How To Fix Your Series Addiction When The Next Book Is Months Away
How to Get Back to Enjoying Reading Again
How to read Amazon Books Anywhere – No Kindle Needed.
No Menage? Not Much Sex? Why Bother?
The Next Phase of Ebook Reading – Multi-Function Devices
Paper versus Pixels – A Very Personal Take
The Reading Life – A New Trend in eReaders?
Refashioning, Frugality and the New Poor…Indie Reading Is Part of The New Sexy.
Quotes About Reading & Writing
Reviews I: Why I Don’t Do Fiction Reviews
Reviews II: Professional Reviews
Reviews IV: Alternatives to Reviews
Ticking Clock, Romance Locks, and Screwing With The Formula…There’s Fun In Them Thar Tropes!
Top 9 Things Readers Should Know About Series
Why You Shouldn’t Rely On Best Seller Lists To Buy Romances
Stories About My Books
All Of Time And The Whole World, Too
The Arthurian Romance With A Funny Title
Big Enough to Prop a Door Open!
The Blood, Sweat and Gritty-Eyed Truth Behind Carson’s Night
By Any Other Name…? No, I Don’t Think So
Byzantine Heartbreak — Book of the Year.
Eight Things You Should Know About Caden Rawn
Gargoyles as heroes? Werewolves are bad enough.
The Good Story, the Bad Story and My Story
Nick Escobedo – Who ARE You, Really?
The Oxymoronic Genre – Erotic Urban Fantasy
A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet
SFR Galaxy Award 2016 for Faring Soul.
Sherlock Holmes Had A Secret Lover?
Super Brat Meets Do-Right Hero
Why I Decided To Become A Novelist
Why Set a Thriller in Western Australia?
Why Vampires and Ménage and Time Travel?
MMF Menage
Ease Yourself Into MMF Romances Series
Part 1: Ménages Categorized
Part 2: How can MMF be romantic?
Part 3: How To Read Your First MMF Romance
Part 4: Where To Find Your MMF Romances
Part 5: Narrow Down Your List of Potential MMF Novels
Part 6: Keeping Track
The Heroes in MMF Romance Don’t Need Classification
MM and MMF – Let’s Try Again. Why Do Women Like Men Who Like Men?
MMF Relationships – Finding A Third
Recommended MMF Books. (I was mad. Mad, I tell you…)
Recommended MMF Romance Titles
Why Vampires and Ménage and Time Travel?
Vampires
6 Guaranteed, Sure-Fire Ways To Snare Your Own Vampire In Record Time (IQ Not Included)
And Then There Was Two…Vampires
May You Live In Interesting Times
How Vampires Stay Happy – and how you can, too
A Kiss of Vampires…The Kiss of Death?
Vampires and Immortality…Just One Teeny Problem.
Vampire Powers – Holy Objects, Garlic
Vampire Powers – Mental Domination
What if We Weren’t The Top Cats?
What Are The Fangs Actually FOR?
What’s With Vampires and Mirrors?
Who Says Vampire Romance Books are Dying?
Why Vampires and Ménage and Time Travel?
Paranormal Romance
8 Warning Signs You Are Addicted to Time Travel Romance
The 9 Laws of Time Travel in Romances
The Challenges of Serial Lives Management
Gargoyles as heroes? Werewolves are bad enough.
How Vampires Stay Happy – and how you can, too
Is it Worth The Time, Marrying Ephemerals? – Part I
Is it Worth The Time, Marrying Ephemerals? – Part II
Time Travels – A Cheat’s Way Of Sneaking In The Unpopular Eras
My Top 12 Paranormal/Fantasy TV Series Ever (for now)
What’s With Vampires and Mirrors?
“Where’s the DeLorean?” – Time Travel Devices v’s Just Being There
Why Thor Isn’t as Cool as You Thought He Was
Why Vampires and Ménage and Time Travel?
Romantic Suspense & Thrillers
My Favourite Romantic Suspense TV Series
What IS Romantic Suspense, Exactly? – Part I
What IS Romantic Suspense, Exactly? – Part II
Romantic Suspense Heroes – Why Are They Always In Uniform?
Sherlock Holmes Had A Secret Lover?
More Sexy Stuff
Does Your Skill in Bed Match Your Appearance?
Pretty Lips on Men – What Makes Them Kissable?
So Where Are The Thick Romance Heroines?
Historical Stuff
1977. A Mere 33 Years And An Eon Of Differences Ago.
The Abdication Of Bonaparte And The Count of Monte Cristo
Air Quality in 1666 London Takes a Dive
The Album of a Generation…or Two Or Three
All Of Time And The Whole World, Too
Anne Boleyn – A Cautionary Tale
The Battle of Trafalfar – English Supremacy, But Not the End of the War
Beware the Ides of March…But Why?
Bluebeard Gets His Just Rewards
Camelot – The Once and Future King Strides On
A Classic Stockholm Syndrome Girl
Cleopatra, Seventh Queen of Egypt
The Difficulties of Writing Really Old Erotic Historical Romances
The Eiffel Tower Started Life As A Gate
Equality for Women: Not such a hot idea.
GONE WITH THE WIND Premiers…76 years ago
The Grassy Knoll – 48 Years of Classic Conspiracy
The Grey Lady Blows Out The Candles
Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Tudor
Hogwarts Here on Earth is 378 Today
i have seen the writing on the wall…
It’s Sherlock Holmes’ Birthday!
King Kong Debuted 81 Years Ago Today
The Last Beatles Live Performance
The Last Day of the Roman Empire…or is it?
Long Live the Queen…but which one?
The Mother Road No Longer a Highway
Mt. St. Helens – 23 Years Ago Today
The Only Unsolved Case Of Air Piracy In American History
Orson Welles Does His Creepy Stuff
Really Cool Historical Vacation Spots: Constantinople
Roe v’s Wade – 40th Anniversary.
Richard III – A lot of “Lasts”
Sherlock Holmes Had A Secret Lover?
Vernal Equinox – Time to Burn Your Socks
Vikings in Canada — 1013 years ago today.
Vikings Weren’t Really Vikings
Where Are All The Hippies Now?
Who Shot JR? 33 years ago today..
Who Were King Arthur’s Enemies?
Why It’s Impossible to Write An Historical Novel Accurately For A Modern Audience
The Worst Nuclear Accident, Ever.
The Year September Lost Two Weeks
Erotic Romance
8 Lies Erotic Romance Authors Like to Tell
The Difficulties of Writing Really Old Erotic Historical Romances
Erotic Romance on TV and Film – It’s a Trade Off
Erotic Romance is NOT Erotica!
Erotic Romance…What It Is, and Is Not.
Spanking On The Sofa…Are Romances Get Hot All Over?
Pulse Pause Moments
Alejandro and Elena De la Vega – Zorro
Captain Malcolm Reynolds and Wife.
Intriguing Heroes: Derek Reese (Brian Austin Green)
Richard Flood, the Irish Scrapper
Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit
A Scandal In Belgravia – Sherlock
Sherlock. No, not that one, the other one!
Why Didn’t I Notice Him Before?
Bits and Pieces
21 Bad Boy Hero Quotes That Leave You Speechless
Absolutely Mind-Boggling Shoes
American, British, Australian or Canadian, Eh?
Bogus but Beautiful – Crop Circles
Care Not What the Neighbors Think
Caves – Some of the World’s Most Naturally Creepy Places
Expenditure Twenty Pound Ought And Six
Feel Good About Yourself in 1 Easy Step
Avast! Gabble and Drool, me’beauties!
The Dating Ritual Put To The Test
The Immoveable Object and The Irresistible Force
International Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
Lingerie – Showing Your Bra Straps
Lingerie – Don’t Forget Stockings
Lingerie – A Woman’s Secret Weapon
My Top 5 Most Influential Authors
NASA’s Incredible Travel Posters
There are backpacks…then there are Backpacks.
A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet
Two Dark Spreads and A Bleak Christmas Later… Part I
Two Dark Spreads and A Bleak Christmas Later… Part II
Slave Labour. It’s Not Just For The History Books.
Step Further Back Into Ancient History
Stonehenge – More Important Than We Thought
Supercentenarians, Age and Immortality
The Surfing World – A Little Microcosm Of Its Own
Vikings Weren’t Really Vikings
Where Did All The Long-Haired Heroes Go?
A Geek Girl’s Guide to….
Author Hack for Amazon Readers
Book Shop Hacking for Amazon Readers
Why It Pays To Be (A Little Bit) Geeky
Science Fiction Romance
Is SF Romance Really All That Difficult to Read?
SFR Galaxy Award 2016 for Faring Soul.
The 21st Century Reader’s Manifesto
Don’t be Retail-Centric (You’ll Miss Out)
Stories Rule (Because They Do)
My Favourite Books Ever
Fantasy & Mythology
Camelot – The Once and Future King Strides On
My Top 12 Paranormal/Fantasy TV Series Ever (for now)
The Oxymoronic Genre – Erotic Urban Fantasy
Point Ears, Stumpy Legs & Other Fantasy Cliches
Vikings Weren’t Really Vikings
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