I have been waiting more than twenty years to write this post. Today is my last day working a day job. At the end of today, I’m quitting to write full time, which is something I have been working towards for at least two decades – basically, since I started taking writing seriously. I’ve never […]
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Thirty-five years ago today, John Lennon was shot dead by an unbalanced man named Mark David Chapman, who shot him four times in the back outside his New York apartment, then sat and waited for the police to arrive, and read The Catcher in the Rye, which he said was his statement. The photo, right,
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Kimberly Dean is my guest author today, and the last guest for the year. Kimberly writes erotic romantic suspense, and there’s a special deal at the end of her interview. Let’s get to know Kimberly. ___________ Who are your favourite authors? Linda Howard, Nalini Singh, J.R. Ward, JK Rowling, Sandra Brown, Sidney Sheldon, Karen Robards
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It probably seems like the completely wrong time to be talking about a convention that is happening sometime next year, but the fact is, the RT convention is only 4 months away. Are you going to RT? Are you thinking about going? If so, let me know. I’ve added a sticky post to the top
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The creative process involves risk. An author risks themselves and their ego every time they put a story out for readers to read and judge. Authors also have to experiment in order to try new processes, new story ideas, new ways of showing character, and more, or their stories stagnate and grow stale. With each
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Beverley Bateman writes romantic suspense and medical thrillers — and that’s a genre I haven’t seen much of in a long time! If you like your white-coated doctor heroes, do check some of Beverley’s back-list out. In the meantime, let’s get to know Beverley a bit better: ____________ Who are your favourite authors? J D
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Each of these books is only $1.99, but only for a few more hours. The Branded Rose Prophecy, all 600 pages of it, is $2.99, a 60% discount, but only until midnight. Click here to buy.
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Today’s guest blogger is Carol Rose, who writes contemporary romance. _____________ There’s something sexy about men who know how to work with their hands. All that sweaty muscle… The fact that these dudes can get the job done, dealing with life challenges like a clogged toilet or a roof that leaks, makes them real life
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When I first wrote Terror Stash, it didn’t have a romance in it at all. I wasn’t entirely sure I was even going to publish it under my own name. It was a straight thriller, not set in North America, but did feature an American heroine. It was set in the obscure and little-known area
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Within a couple of weeks of arriving in Canada, once the almost permanent headache that came from concentrating so hard on the funny accents had gone away, I came to a startling conclusion. Now that I was in North America, I was free to read and write the wildly different types of romances that you
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