There are tons and tons of “Greatest Books” lists out there. The Google gave me these, right off the top: Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels (Although they don’t supplied a criteria in any way) Wikipedia’s Lists of 100 Best Books (They didn’t even try to stop at just one list). There are many, many more […]
Google does some pretty amazing things with the data it has access to. I’ve heard some people jokingly refer to it as “The Google”, but sometimes it feels like it might be heading for omnipotence and godhead… Here’s a few hacks that you will find helpful for your reading. Show Me A Video If you
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If you read the reviews on Amazon and elsewhere for Sabrina’s Clan, which came out last Thursday, there is a lot of weeping and rending of garments because it is the last book in the series. I’ve also had some “interesting” email direct from readers demanding requesting I write more books in the series. This
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Have a guess. If the gun doesn’t give it away, then let me put you out of your misery. Romantic Suspense. If you’re about to say “no, I do not read RS!’ then you should probably check out these two articles. In my on-going efforts to bring the site up to date I recently added
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I saw a fashion blog headline the other day that just made me laugh. I don’t have it anymore, but I can paraphrase it: Ten Essential Must-Buys for Your Fall 2016 Wardrobe! Sounds perfectly normal — you see headlines like this all the time. The things that struck me as hilarious were: That I
I was just interviewed by USA Today for their Happy Ever After blog. The interview comes out on June 30 (yes, I’ll remind you!). The interesting thing is that they wanted to talk to me about Faring Soul, book 1 of the Interspace Origins series. Why is that interesting? Well, for me, the writing and
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I am a member of the Science Fiction Romance Brigade, a group of SFR authors. There’s a blog, by the way, if you haven’t found it yet: http://sfrcontests.blogspot.ca/. In July, there will be a SFR blog hop coordinated by the Brigade…but I’m getting ahead of myself. Suffice to say,
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I came across some of these little factoids just recently, and some of them I’ve known for a while, but they all add up to an interesting insight about shopping for books. Plus: In summary: The main Amazon site provides: It seems to me that you would be far, far better off doing all your
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Last week I asked the readers of my newsletter about print editions — did they like them, did they prefer them? The ensuing discussion on Facebook was lively and opinion was split nearly evenly both ways. Some readers can’t stand print. Others love their physical books. Way, way back in 2007 I posted an article
I’ve received a couple of emails lately from readers who are tripping over the numbering system in my series. I admit that if you’ve never seen that sort of series numbering before — I call it digital numbering — it can look a little strange, but there are very good reasons for numbering the series
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