This is Part Nine of a series: The current economy, world-wide, would be better served, everyone keeps telling us, if we buy local, and buy direct. But we (you and me) buy ebooks. How do you buy them locally? Buying from an author, when they offer their books for sale directly from their site, is […]
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I first was drawn to historical romances because of two things. One was, absolutely, the dresses. A woman looks so much more womanly in some of the dresses she gets to swan around in, depending on which historical period you get to write in. And with her breasts and waist emphasized the way most of
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I sometimes feel that I’m very much behind a lot of cultural shifts and trends — I hear about them years after they’ve got rolling. But there’s an advantage in that: I only spend attention bandwidth on events and phenomena that look like they’re going to stick around. Like the recent wild bear/strange man in
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