Paper folding has been around forever. The Japanese call it Origami, but there are all sorts of complex and quite beautiful forms of paper folding beyond Origami, as the image to the right demonstrates. If you’re curious, plug “paper folding” into Google Images. The styles, creativity and beauty of some of the finished pieces is […]
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Erotic romance first crept into the publishing industry at the turn of the millennium. Fast forward nearly fifteen years, and it’s one of the hottest genres in town, thanks to books (and now movies!) like Fifty Shades of Grey. But despite fame, fortune and a decent dollop of notoriety, there are still a huge number
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Recently, I found myself commenting on a blog post – at length. This is unusual (not, the length, as I’m inclined to windiness, but commenting at all is unusual). The post that prompted the comment was on SF Romance; “Is Sci-Fi Romance Really All That Difficult to Write?” If you’ve read any of my Beloved
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This was going to be a simple Mash post, but it ended up I had so much to say about AuthorEarnings.com, I turned it into a dedicated post just on the tornado that is ripping through the publishing world. A few weeks ago, super-sonically successful indie author Hugh Howey (author of Wool, amongst others) launched a
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I make a habit of going against the grain. Most of the time I do it quite unconsciously, but I usually end up doing things very much the opposite of the way most other people do it. As a consequence, my kids have grown up being able to tell their friends that their dad is
While short hair for men is the fashion right now in the early half of the twenty-first century, I can’t help but bewail the diminishing numbers of heroes with long hair. When did it stop being sexy? In Romanceland, heroes throughout history and into the realms of the paranormal have enjoyed long locks for decades.
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Who Says Vampire Romance Books are Dying? I don’t know about you, but I keep hearing these rumblings about vampire stories and vampire romances dying out. Back when I was still thought getting a New York book deal was a good idea, and was submitting manuscripts to agents and the odd editor, I was getting
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We all love to love romance series, but if you’ve never formalized your expertise about series before, here’s a quick primer. Series can be stand alone or continual One of the great things about romance series is the variety. There are generally two different types of series; Standalone or Continual. Standalone series make it possible
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Writing and reading are, at their core, odd occupations, and many more learned and wise people have made observations about just how weird it can get — far better than I could. Here’s some of my favourites. The dramatist’s work area is people. Everything else is secondary. Gene Roddenberry. _ The late John Bennett Shaw
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A light-hearted look at the idyllized aspects of erotic romance. Caution: frank language ahead! 1. Heroes will always achieve erection Boners, woodies, purple throbbing shaft of desire… Call it what you want, it doesn’t matter. Romance heroes are always up for it, rarin’ to go at a nano-second’s notice. They will never, ever, need a
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