Normally I would steer clear of something as touchy as abortion laws in a country other than my own, but a couple of small coincidences made it worth mentioning. 1) Today is the 40th anniversary of Roe v’s Wade. 2) While the pros and cons of the case are still hotly debated even today, one […]
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What IS Romantic Suspense, Exactly? Part I This post is part of a series: Part I Part II _________ Ask six different readers and writers what romantic suspense is, and you’re likely to get six quite different answers. There is a lot of confusion out there about what is — and most importantly, what isn’t
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So much for catching up on blog posts. There’s a nasty cold/flu/bug thing going around, and despite eating super-healthy and working out, I’m the only one in my office that seems to have caught the damned thing. I was so out of it today (day 3) that I dragged my sorry ass into work, thinking
I’m completely behind primarily because I finally got to see The Hobbit on Sunday. My daughter, Kate, and I went to the local cinema complex to check out Richard Armitage and Martin Freeman. I was a bit disappointed we didn’t get to see/hear Benedict Cumberbatch’s rolling baritone this installment, but one small surprise bonus for
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I’ve made a standing joke out of the fact that I don’t speak anything but English, but that I’m fluent in Australian, British, Canadian and American. It really isn’t a joke. As an author of genre fiction, I learned very early on – with my first manuscript, in fact – that I was expected to
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What’s With Vampires and Mirrors? There is so much vampire fiction and vampire romance fiction out there that it has reached a critical mass; there are now “trends” in vampire mythology. It seems that some vampire powers and abilities are trendy and some, well, aren’t. Vampires still have a craving for blood – I doubt
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I get asked how to go about getting published in the erotic market almost weekly – usually via private email. I have faithfully answered all those emails over the last few years, despite there already being a lengthy article on the site that answers the question exactly and in detail. (“How To Break Into The
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Despite the blog playing dead for part of the year, it has been an interesting year, statistics-wise. I had just shy of 25,000 visitors over the year, with a total of just under 90,000 page views. The site is hovering around the 300,000 mark on Alexa, which isn’t too shabby at all for a fiction
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I’m back to the grind stone. How about you? I’m sitting on the bus heading for the day job as I write this. It’s dark outside, snow is lying all around, it’s hovering around ten below zero (Celsius) and the nicest thing about my day so far is the hot English Breakfast tea in my
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I’ve been madly Christmas shopping, orchestrating free promotions for you for the holiday season, and producing books – blog posts sort of fell off the horizon for a bit. Oops. I hope you all enjoyed the series of three free books over the last three weekends? Two of them were repeats: Blood Knot and Bannockburn
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