Back in June I blithely announced I was heading off on a writing and blogging vacation. I so appreciated the messages of farewell I received, and they made me feel a bit guilty. Because I was lying. I did take a vacation from writing and blogging, but I wasn’t lazing around on a beach, restoring […]
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Sites 350 Pixel Perfect Icons – perfect for just about anything you can think of. And they’re free. Still Broken – Seth Goden’s Squidoo Lens about shit that just doesn’t work — like signs on fences saying don’t hang signs on fences… The Story
I’ve done a few “I’m back!” posts over the years. This one has a particularly nice taste to it. I thought I was going to lose my site. After running it for ten years plus, I like blogging and putting stuff out there. Then my domain host, who will remain nameless, decided not to notify
It’s Just A Job – Vampires I feel slightly silly even attempting to write a definition post about vampires. They have become such a staple of romance fiction that asking “what does a vampire do?” tends get raised eyebrows in return or ‘d’uh!’ back. But their very popularity raises problems. Hundreds of authors within the
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I saw the first episode of the first season of Downton Abbey way back in May 2011, when I was visiting Australia. And I watched it with ad breaks. Maybe that coloured my viewing experience, because I never got back to the show until the last few weeks. I kept hearing about the series, here
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We don’t pay a lot of attention to guy’s mouths — except for what they’re doing with them. Heroines have to have the perfect cupid bow and full pillow-like, bee-stung lips, because the pouty look is sexy, and if she can get her bottom lip to quiver ever-so-slightly at the same time, she can bring
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Nero was the last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and he died on this day in A.D. 68. While Claudius, his immediate predecessor, brought stability and sanity back to the empire, and Julius Caeser himself made the empire great, Nero’s rule was not distinguished. He was a lacklustre leader, and a persecutor of Christians. He
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Sites “People Aren’t Against You; They Are for Themselves” Interesting psychological piece from Lifehacker. (Love Lifehacker!) MMF Romance Resource Page Just added to this site this week. Indie Authors Rhiannon Ellis – contemporary romance Amber Scott – paranormal romance Jason Brant – thrillers About
One concert photo — especially one without the band members on stage — looks very much like another. Unless you were there. I was there. Twice. On both sides of the world. I’ve been crazy stupid over Pink Floyd and The Wall since it came out in the mid ’80s. (I was one of those
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This post was going to be about how the US Secret Service formed on June 4, waaaay back in 1778, which impressed the hell out of me. The idea that a country that was still forming, when the British and French were still firing flintlocks and muskets at each other, military strategy was advanced enough