Is bigger really better? Or is it all in how that short length is used? Five years ago, the most popular sized book being bought at Ellora’s Cave was the quickie – short stories under 10K words that sold for less than $4. They sold by the bushel. Ellora’s Cave is a lot of things, […]
Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Sites Marilyn Monroe: Early Unpublished Photos Meet The Author The Writer At Work – a daily comic about the writer’s life The Republic of Pemberley – everything Jane Austen The Most Successful Indie Authors – a list of self-published authors who have sold over 50,000
It’s Just A Job – Angels We’re starting to get into the more and more “obvious” fantasy species in this series, but in order to keep the series complete and whole, they all have to get a post of their own, even the most well known species, like vampires. Angels and demons fit that classification,
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Bonnie & Clyde were gunned down on a country road in Louisiana on this day in 1934, each of them dying from multiple armour-piercing rifle bullet wounds. They were 23 and 25 years old respectively, and their careers as public enemies had included a series of petty thefts and needless murders of private citizens and
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Erotic Romance on TV and Film – It’s a Trade Off Drama on TV has become edgier and more absorbing by the minute these days. They’re pushing the envelope every year in terms of storylines, and once you move beyond the big four Mom & Pop networks, anything goes in terms of content. That’s not
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The Tudor period, and King Henry’s wives have been the focus of a lot of novels, movies and TV lately — some of it terrific stuff indeed. The Tudors was compulsive viewing, not just because of the costuming, in-your-face sex and titillation and the knife-edge lives those who dared played politics led in those days.
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We tend to let the name “Alexander the Great” roll off the tongue without thought, but there is a reason he earned his name. Alexander III of Macedon died on this day in 323 BC, after building the greatest empire the world had ever seen up until then. He was undefeated in battle his entire
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Sites James Bond: Rare and Unpublished Photos From Auditions for ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ LIFE Magazine. This is fascinating. James Bond(s) as you’ve never seen them. Indie Authors Historical romance author Jennifer Blake is now self-publishing. Various Romance genres. Carolyn McCray – and you
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This is Part 2 of a series Part 1: So Where Are The Thick Romance Heroines? Part 2: Slender Is A Status Symbol ___ The Ultimate Decider. I’ve been thinking rather hard about thick v’s thin. There’s been images of “thick” women on Facebook that caught my attention, and I posted about them, here, and
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I started late on Fringe. As in, only a few weeks ago, and the show is already into Season 4. But I’ve caught up already. The hook bit deep, and dragged hard. The most frustrating part of that is I’m not really sure why. The show doesn’t deal with paranormal — or it says it
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