Now that I have a computer again, I’ve finally been able to catch up with my reading and finish Holly Lisle’s writing course How To Think Sideways. My final grade for it would be an A- and here’s why. I really am impressed by the amount of effort she put into it. Hundreds of pages [...]
As you can see, it’s been a while since I last posted. I need to explain, hope this doesn’t sound tooooo whiny. My day job pays hourly and summertime tends to be a little slow. This summer got REALLY slow. I had to do some serious cutbacks in the old budget. The laptop I had [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
I have to thank Teddypig for spotting this. In his blog today, (here) he pointed out that Penguin is offering The Fountainhead in Kindle format for $27.99. No that’s not a typo. How many ways can we spell insane?? Since I got my Kindle 2, I haven’t bought a single novel in print format, either [...]
I love a good online spat. Childish I know. But when supposedly rational professionals start acting like a bunch of prize idiots, it just gets too funny. Publisher’s Weekly posted an article on their site called: “Agents Weigh the Growth of Alternate Publishing Options”. You can find it here Only the title seems to be [...]
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/05/piracy-again.html I’d never even heard of Mr. Konrath before this month (I’m not much of a thriller reader) but I swear I’m fast becoming a fangirl. He’s becoming the go to guy when it comes to the business side of epublishing/self-publishing from a I-did-it-and-you-can-too successful writer’s point of view. I bought a Kindle copy of [...]
So two of my favorite historical romance authors (Julia Quinn and Lisa Kleypas) have new books coming out next week. Another favorite (Stephanie Laurens) has a new story the end of June. These three are some of my “autobuys”. So I started thinking about the kinds of books that end up as my personal keepers. [...]