This is the first post in a series. Part 1: Are Print Publishers Really Doomed? Part 2: Are Print Books Really Doomed? Part 3: Do I HAVE To Read E-Books? Part 4: Do I Have to Buy Indie Books? _____ Are print publishers really doomed? In a word, no. Oh, the industry is going through […]
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It’s 48 years ago today that the The Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was released. On September 27, 1964, this most eagerly anticipated report found that there was no conspiracy involved in the president’s assassination, to the utter amazement of almost the entire nation, and the world. Conspiracy theories
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I’ve been getting a huge number of hits on the site lately for Brian Austin Green, and the role he played in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. People are reading my rave review about him as a romantic hero. I find that promising as Green is my inspiration for one of the heroes in the
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After all my raving about Castle and Beckett a few months ago, did I convince you enough to check out the back episodes and then catch the season three cliff-hanger conclusion during the premier of Season Four on the 19th? I did. So did about eight of my friends and family, all sitting around my
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So you may have wondered about the abrupt and echoing silence that has been my major form of communication for a while. Chirping crickets have been louder, I know. There are generally two reasons that bloggers go silent — either they’ve suddenly discovered that blogging is really hard and they lose interest in it. Posts
We read so many romance novels featuring heroes who sacrifice enormously to win and keep the heart of the woman they love. We thrill to the idea of a man giving his all for love but we know that it’s just a novel and, in real life, love isn’t quite like that. Relationships are more
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Both Blood Knot and Fatal Wild Child have popped up on the virtual bookshelves at Kobo.com in the last little while. If you’re a Kobo fan, or a Canadian, you can shop to your preferences, or locally. I’ve put links for both book on their respective pages, but here they are for you now. Blood
Interesting but useless fact. Today, 39 years ago, the FBI allowed the first female agents into their ranks, in 1972. I thought that was surprising late in the equality drive, which was already talking about career supression for women (which later became known as the “glass ceiling”), so I thought I’d do a comparison of
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I’m having a wild fling with Castle at the moment, so it’s natural that my mind instantly turns to this pulse pause moment I saw in a Season 3. I spoke about my temporary love affair with the show recently. I can’t explain the photo or the moment without laying down minor spoilers for the
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If you’re subscribed to my newsletter, you already know that my writing and publishing schedule has taken a short detour. Blood Knot has suddenly become hugely popular. Last week it was #262 on Amazon’s Most Popular Vampire Romance chart. As I write this post it has moved up to #257. Considering that Amazon have 3,175
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