Goodies I’ve found from chatting, cruising and working lately: Interesting Sites The Alliance of Independent Authors They’ve got some pretty heavy-weight authors in their ranks. But they do charge a fee for membership, and it’s not small. It’s not large, either, but the fee will certainly sort out those who are just faking it from […]
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Since I started indie publishing, I have been distributing my books through Kobo. I was using Smashword’s distribution service to do this, which felt vaguely silly: Here I was sitting in Canada, right next door to Kobo, but I had to send my books via a US distributor to get them onto the digital shelves
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Four years ago, I had the greatest of good fortunes to score a year of bliss. I got to write full time. It was unexpected and completely unplanned. I got retrenched from my day job with a big enough cheque that we figured if I wrote my ass off and sold enough, I might be
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What IS Romantic Suspense, Exactly? Part II This post is part of a series: Part I Part II _________ Last post, I showed how romantic suspense gets into everything, which makes it damned hard to define and limit pure Romantic Suspense. Lisa Gardner, who is arguably one of the best selling romantic suspense authors writing
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The original New Amsterdam fort the Dutch built on lower Manhattan island was established in 1625, but the actual city of New Amsterdam was incorporated today, three hundred and sixty years ago. Of course, the name didn’t last too long. The English bopped along in four frigates in 1665 and dubbed the thriving city New
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Man watching is not flirting. It’s not picking up strange men. It’s not even gazes meeting across a room. Man watching is one of the most fascinating and completely harmless activities any woman on the planet can do. Men watch women all the time. It’s built into their mitochondria and chained to their testosterone. They
Dammit, I’m hooked like a wriggling fish. I swore off NCIS if Tony and Ziva didn’t get their act together (literally) at the beginning of Season 10. Yeah, they didn’t. But now it looks like they just might, half-way through the season. Give a woman a teeny glimpse of hope and she’ll last another quarter
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I think the reason why I write fiction is pretty much out there for public consumption on every site and URL where my bio and profile roams. The short version is George Lucas wrote Star Wars, Harrison Ford re-wrote one line in the love scene between Han Solo and Princess Leia, I got hooked by
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And Then There Was Two…Vampires Vampire reproduction — how one vampire went about creating a new vampire — used to be lovingly laid out in detail, but I’ve noticed a trend in romance fiction lately; the actual process of re-creation is glossed over or missing altogether. Even I’m at fault on this one, as there
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Henry Tudor died 466 years ago today, but because of all he achieved in his life, his influence lives on. Most people tend to remember Henry because of his six wives, his obesity, and the fact that he split the Roman Catholic church asunder and formed the Church of England just so he could marry
Henry VIII Lives On. Read More »