If you’ve been following my blog posts for a while, it is probably not a big shock to you if I tell you that I am subscribed to several productivity blogs. One of them, Zen Habits, recently put up a post about deliberately scheduling reading time into your day. If you’ve never deliberately schedule something that […]
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Today is International Left-Handed Day. What I want to know is, when is it International Right-Handed Day? Being left-handed was once a curse. It was considered a sign of the devil. Left-handers were treated with mild suspicion at best. I’ve used this a couple of times in historical novels and my time travel novels, particularly
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I came across one of the most bizarre facts I’ve ever learned about Victorians in my research for Rules of Engagement, the eighth book in the Scandalous Scions series, which I finished just a few days ago. In the late Victorian period, one of the most popular activities among the ton was mummy unwrapping parties!
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As if all the cat images on Facebook wasn’t a perpetual Cat Day… However, I love cats. My coffee cup tells me so. Some famous writers who are/were cat lovers includes Robert Heinlein, who managed to write cats as characters into some of his novels, including To Sail Beyond The Sunset (one of my favourites): Notice the
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This is another of my guest posts that appeared on a blog that is now long gone. I’ve updated and refreshed links. There’s a ton of fiction out there – even romance fiction – featuring vampires in the past and the present, taking on human roles and because of their inherited special gifts and talents,
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The title of this post, by the way, is not something I said, but a reviewer. 🙂 When I first started inhaling fiction in every second of my spare time, the only books being released were from traditional publishers. Anthologies back then often had a long, in-depth foreword by the editor, and an additional note
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Do You Deep Freeze Your Books? Do you remember in Season Three of Friends, when Rachel discovered Joey’s copy of The Shining in the freezer? Joey put his books in the freezer because he found them too scary to read. I always smile because he ended up putting Little Women in the freezer, because he could tell
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The Branded Rose Prophecy is my longest book ever written. It comes in at 236,000 words. That’s long for anyone. It is nearly 4½ standard books packed together. I had a blast writing it, but it took me nearly a year, and I got very little else written that year. Still, it is one of
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GONE WITH THE WIND is 82 Today I ran this post eight years ago, in 2011. How time flies! As rumours seem to continue about a possible remake of the movie (starring Hugh Jackman is Rhett Butler, Yum!!), the interest in Gone With The Wind continues. –t. Gone With The Wind, a romance movie staple, is 74
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If you’re into the King Arthur romance series, Once and Future Hearts, then I think you’ll love Book 3! I had so much fun writing it. Not because it’s a fun book, but because in Book 3, some of the epic, tragic events that thread through the Arthurian mythology are starting to form and influence the characters.
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