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Archive for June, 2010

Holly Lisle’s How To Think Sideways Course

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Holly Lisle has a six month long online course for writers called “How To Think Sideways“. I’m about 4 months into it now and damn I’m going to be sorry to see it end. If nothing else, I’m amazed at the amount of material she provides you. There’s easily over a thousand pages of text [...]

Rant Against Various Nuttiness

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Well, my blog has been discovered. By spammers. I don’t get it. It must have worked sometime for someone or they wouldn’t keep doing it. But… who really thinks any body part is going to get bigger just by slapping some lotion on it? Various media reports that despite the big release of the Ipad, [...]

Where Oh Where Is Romancing the Blog???

Friday, June 11th, 2010

I don’t mean to whine (the hell I don’t) but Romancing the Blog used to be one of my favorite sites. Always a lot of posts from a wide variety of romance authors/readers/industry types. They shut it down in … December I think and said they’d reopen it again under new management in the middle [...]

Why I Prefer My Kindle To DTBs

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Since some (fortunately not all) publishers seem to not understand the appeal of ebooks, I thought I’d give my own personal explanation. I know they’re waiting for it with bated breath. 1. My cat doesn’t find my Kindle as appealing, so she doesn’t park her furry butt on it just as I’m trying to read. [...]