Monthly Archives: August 2007

Spam

Funny, a few years ago the word spam would have immediately conjured up Monty Python’s hilarious skit in my mind. These days, however, you say the word spam and I think penis enlargements, dodgy cheap medicine and emails telling me … Continue reading

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The Birth of an Idea

I’ve been getting bombarded with story ideas lately. In fact, I had so many new ideas surface over the weekend, that I started a story file—just so I won’t forget any of them. Why, you might ask, am I getting … Continue reading

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Skimming

Are you a skimmer? Are you at the point as a reader where you find yourself skimming those hot and sexy love scenes? Or those lengthy paragraphs of description that some writers feel is absolutely necessary to set the background … Continue reading

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Review: Gone For Good

Title: Gone For Good Author: Harlan Coben ISBN: 978-0-7528-4912-6 Publisher: Orion 2007 (Reissue) The pacing in this novel is designed to keep you flipping the pages. Will Klein’s life falls apart shortly after his mother’s death. Just before she dies, … Continue reading

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The Week Ahead

We’re excited to have Kristie Jenner from Romantic Advances as our guest blogger Saturday, August 25th. R.A. is a centralized source for all upcoming romance books, as well as some fantasy/urban fantasy/young adult, etc. for all those readers whose TBR … Continue reading

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Guest Blogger: Leigh Court

How one horrible week as a TV news reporter turned me into a romance writer… My road to becoming a romance author is fairly unique, so I thought I’d share it… I was a television news reporter who had a … Continue reading

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Bringing It Home

There’s a scene in WALK THE LINE, the Johnny Cash story, and it’s powerful. After I wrote today’s blog, this scene flashed before my eyes and I knew I had to use it in the beginning as an example. I’m … Continue reading

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Making The Lists

A local writing friend and I went to dinner a few weeks back, and she mentioned that one of her must buy authors has just fallen off her must buy list. We all have a list like this. A list … Continue reading

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Young Adult novels

On one of my loops, we’re about to have a Q&A session with a YA author, and there was a call for questions which got me thinking if I had any. And I did. But then I picked up this … Continue reading

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Amazing books

I’m switching with Theresa today. Her Golden Retriever, Luna, broke her leg. It should be okay once it heals, but Luna is young and frisky and keeps wanting to use it. Theresa needs to give Luna a lot of care … Continue reading

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