Everybody loves presents. Here’s a list of presents from authors to readers–free reads! Update: December 26, 2007 through January 1, 2008: Free Harlequin eBooks! You can download one book a day. Paperback Writer’s 2006 Free eBook ChallengeThis here is a big, mama-jama list o’ free fiction. Lynn Viehl (she of…
Wow, Part 1: Demon NightI just finished the ARC of MelJean Brook‘s Demon Night that I won from Dear Author. I’m still gathering my thoughts on it–there’s a lot of plot, and backstory, and detail. I don’t know quite what I think of Demon Night but I am certain of…
I should be all aglow with happiness–the final version of Like a Thief in the Night is turned in, and the excerpt is up on the Samhain site. Instead, all I see are things I want to change. I can’t help it, I’m a fiddler. I nitpick. I tweak. Editor…
Another great post over at Dear Author wherein Jane wonders if a makeover would get the Romance genre a little respect from the mainstream. Now, I hate mantitty, secret babies and clinch covers as much as the next gal-who-also-likes-to-occasionally-read- in-public-or-on-the-bus, but not even a tag team of Oprah, Tyra and…
Editor Paula Guran on the Juno Books blog did a post about absinthe. It is quite fashionable right now. Damn, but I hate to be a trend hopper. My husband collects interesting liquors the way some men collect baseball cards, and he’s been wanting a bottle of the EU-legal stuff…
If you read genre fiction, you’ve probably heard the laundry-list of complaints about it from readers of “serious” literature: formulaic, cliche, tawdry, unoriginal, and–worst of all–popular. Genre Haters seem to think any novel shelved by plot or content is, by definition, a lesser species of fiction. But that’s a load…
A while back, Nice Mommy and Evil Editor Angie had a fun contest. She said she would send something to the first three people to reply to her post. The thing is, the winners have to pay it forward and hold a similar contest. Which is quite a nice kick…
Many, many thanks to the bidder who won the Ember auction with a bid of $35. She asked to remain anonymous, so I’m not printing her name, but I will sing her praises. In addition to being generous, and having excellent taste in reading material, she is a kind and…
You already know how fascinated I am by the whole editing process. Perhaps if I am published several more times, I will become jaded enough to complain about it, but, for now, it’s super neat-o cool. My editor Laurie has been great about explaining the process, the schedule, and all…
