This is is Part 1 of a series. I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent rash of images on Facebook and elsewhere, of gorgeous women, who are in no way, shape or form, slender. There’s a motivational poster out there called “Thick women” that has four not-slender women in various sexy poses, that encourages […]
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It’s been a week since I posted. Wow…how did that happen? Well, I know how it happened — now. Hindsight is a beautiful thing. 😉 I usually do a week’s worth of posts on the weekend, and last weekend I didn’t get them written because I spent the weekend rushing around covering a lot of
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In the swirling whirliegig that is publishing, these days, indie authors and indie publishing is the newly-emerging cottage industry…or is it the way of things to come? I get to wrap up Indie Author month at Vampire Romance Books with an overview of Indie Publishing today. Have your say. After all, indie publishing is an
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Posts/Articles The changing definition of e-publishing A long essay about some startling developments in the book world lately. Lawrence Kasdan Goes Indie The Other Side of Piracy Another perspective on ebook piracy. Very interesting. What I Just Learned From A Room Full of Romance
It’s Just A Job – Incubus Wikipedia’s short definition of an Incubus is: An incubus (nominal form constructed from the Latin verb, incubo, incubare, or “to lie upon”) is a demon in male form who, according to a number of mythological and legendary traditions, lies upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have intercourse with
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It must be because I grew up hearing the stories about what Australian and New Zealand troops achieved (and died achieving) during the First and Second World Wars, that Anzac Day tends to register in my consciousness more than Rememberance Day ever does, even living here in North America. In Australia, Anzac Day is a
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For the longest time I have been using FBReader on my cellphone to read ePub formatted ebooks. It was a fallback app I grabbed quickly when my Sony eReader died a couple of years ago, and I needed something to access all the books I’d had on the Sony. The last laugh was on me:
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I’m almost afraid to mention Shakespeare. There is a whole generation of readers out there, including my kids, who had Shakespeare in Love shoved down their throats in English class at highschool. They studied the movie and everything to do with Shakespeare for ten very long weeks, to the point where none of them now
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Sites The Indie Reader – “a venue for discriminating book-lovers to find and purchase books published by the people who wrote them. Think indie movies–produced with a singular vision–instead of the mass-marketed stuff you’d find at the multiplex. In a world where almost everything is packaged
Today my special guest, Naomi Bellina, is stepping up to the plate. Please welcome her. ________ Thank you, Tracy, for having me as a guest today and letting me share my thoughts on romance writing and saving the world. Be sure to enter my contest at the end of this post. I’m a self-help, make
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