This should probably be considered the national day for romance readers. It features two of the crucial ingredients any self-respecting romance lover considers essential: love and chocolate. Which reminds me of the first and original RomantiCon convention I went to. There was a chocolate smorgasboard (yes, you read that right). One buffet of chocolate and […]
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Romantic Suspense Heroes – Why Are They Always In Uniform? I noticed this trend when I was writing the RS series a few weeks ago. I was trying to sort out in my own mind all the different sub-categories of RS and found it easier to try and classify them via the occupation of the
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I’ve waffled between paid newsletter services and doing-it-myself for over a decade. The last time I used a paid service I was about ready to kick heads in by the time I pulled the plug — not just because I found the service so frustrating, but because I also discovered, quite by fortuitous accident, that
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I will be holding a two hour primer + workshop at the St. Albert Public Library next Saturday, on Erotic Romance. It’s intended for complete beginners and the curious. If you’ve had even a mild thought about writing erotic romance, this is your opportunity to come and find out what writing erotic romance really entails,
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Since I started indie publishing, I have been distributing my books through Kobo. I was using Smashword’s distribution service to do this, which felt vaguely silly: Here I was sitting in Canada, right next door to Kobo, but I had to send my books via a US distributor to get them onto the digital shelves
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Four years ago, I had the greatest of good fortunes to score a year of bliss. I got to write full time. It was unexpected and completely unplanned. I got retrenched from my day job with a big enough cheque that we figured if I wrote my ass off and sold enough, I might be
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What IS Romantic Suspense, Exactly? Part II This post is part of a series: Part I Part II _________ Last post, I showed how romantic suspense gets into everything, which makes it damned hard to define and limit pure Romantic Suspense. Lisa Gardner, who is arguably one of the best selling romantic suspense authors writing
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The original New Amsterdam fort the Dutch built on lower Manhattan island was established in 1625, but the actual city of New Amsterdam was incorporated today, three hundred and sixty years ago. Of course, the name didn’t last too long. The English bopped along in four frigates in 1665 and dubbed the thriving city New
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Man watching is not flirting. It’s not picking up strange men. It’s not even gazes meeting across a room. Man watching is one of the most fascinating and completely harmless activities any woman on the planet can do. Men watch women all the time. It’s built into their mitochondria and chained to their testosterone. They
Dammit, I’m hooked like a wriggling fish. I swore off NCIS if Tony and Ziva didn’t get their act together (literally) at the beginning of Season 10. Yeah, they didn’t. But now it looks like they just might, half-way through the season. Give a woman a teeny glimpse of hope and she’ll last another quarter
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