OMG! So, like, there’s this new site that has like every upcoming romance novel on it! So, like, you totally don’t have to search around across a bunch of different publisher sites to see what’s out each month! Eh-hem. Pardon my outburst of girlish glee. (Little-known fact, my inner fan-girl…
Haven’t I written this post before? At the start of the month, I wrote a 200 word entry for Bam’s monthly contest. Didn’t win, but I was curious to see where it would go so I kept on writing. Then I surfed over to Samhain and saw the call for…
Don’t expect fairness and objectivity ’cause I haven’t got either. Descriptions are half-assed, my taste is mercurial, and ratings are assigned entirely by whim. Karma Girl by Jennifer Estep First things first, I saw the first chapter of this book on a critique group site quite a while ago. I…
Kate R. blogged that she can spot everyone else’s overused words, but not her own. Which got me thinking: 1) I don’t know quite how I feel about overused words. Sometimes, as in the case of Barbara Hambly‘s use of “chiaroscuro,” the word feels like an old friend. Other times,…
Lacking anything original to say today, I will link to a couple of interesting entries over on Dear Author. The first is an interview with Heather Osborn, formerly of Ellora’s Cave and now with Tor. Osborne has insight into both ePub and print publishing, which makes for some interesting reading….
As with all my (not a) reviews, descriptions are half-assed, my taste is mercurial, and ratings are assigned entirely by whim. In most Fantasy novels, if chapter one introduces the main character mucking out stables or scrubbing pots in the kitchen, you can bet your subscription to Everquest that Young…
Thing 1: Kate Rothwell/Summer Devon (the gentle voice of encouragement urging me to update my blog in not a few of the comments) is having a contest drawing for a $30 gift certificate of your choice to Barnes and Noble, Amazon, OR Samhain (the publisher of the upcoming print release…
A friend of mine says that procrastinators (como yo) are closet perfectionists. She says we procrastinate because we don’t want to do a thing if we can’t do it perfectly – and no one is perfect. I’ve always thought of my penchant for procrastination as the result of some sort…
