Once you’ve made the leap and you’re reading e-books exclusively — and it doesn’t take long to reach a point where you simply don’t like reading paper anymore — it’s at this point in time you can start systematically moving yourself to 100% paperless. There are lots of advantages to making the transition: 1. You’ll […]
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Top Five Posts for November This month, I changed the criteria for measuring “top” posts. Instead of using the pageview count, I used the “unique visitor” count. As some of the posts have quite a few images and elements on the page, a single visitor could rack up multiple page views with one visit to
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I’m one of those writers who doesn’t believe in writer’s block. I don’t think it exists as an independent condition. If a writer can’t bring herself to write, then there’s an underlying reason for the “block”. Resolve that base reason, and the writer will be able to write again. But there isn’t a disease that
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Sherrod Story will be joining me for an interview/guest post on December 16. She is a fascinating indie author who writes erotic romances of the interracial contemporary kind, and they have a distinct twist of their own — a reflection of their author. Sherrod’s blog is absorbing reading all of its own, so I’m really
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For the (very) few U.S. readers who are actually sneaking away from their families and kitchens and are on-line today (my, you are addicted, aren’t you!) — Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy your turkey day. Tracy
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A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland Because All The Roads Are Being Re-Built (Maybe) Contributing To Word-of-Mouth This is Part 5 (and the last) of a 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 (Series
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Of course you’re looking for the best romances out there. You don’t want to read crap, afterall. But there’s some very good reasons why using best-seller lists, “top author”, “Best of,” “most popular” and other similar listings of books is the worst way of finding the best romances to read. The traffic stats on my
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Lately, I’ve noticed some erotic romance authors referring to their genre as smut, or dirty, and to themselves with various similar titles — smutkateers or naughty authors, or various other titles, with the emphasis on the sexual content of their stories, and the beddable quality and sexual prowess of the heroes they write about. I
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My erotic urban fantasy MMF romance, Blood Knot, has been nominated for vampire book of the year by the reviewers at The Romance Reviews. Now the voting begins. Yes, I’m trawling for votes — as this is a “book of the year” vote rather than a book of the week, or weekend or month, or
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A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland Because All The Roads Are Being Re-Built (Maybe) Assessing Books This is Part 4 of a 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 (Series based upon a guest
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