You know what I like about foreign TV shows? They end. Instead of hanging around like talkative drunks at the end of a party, foreign shows go out on a good note. They last a season or three, and they leave you wanting more. American shows go to crap. They…
In the comments (Yay! Comments!) for my post on he-man heroes, Kimber said, There ought to be a moratorium on heroes named (or nicknamed) Devil, Demon, Damien, Lucien, Lucifer, Luc, Lion, Lyon, Hawk, Raven, Rayne, or Wulf. These used to be what the hero’s HORSE was called. I heartily second…
Does it seem like Romance heroes are becoming ever more Alpha? Back in the day, when I was stealing my mother’s old Harlequin Presents titles, the hero was usually “a doctor” or “a businessman”. In historicals, the hero was usually Sir SuitablyEnglishSurname or Lord SuitablyEnglishName. By the time I was…
Remember back in the day? Back when Romance novels featured nurses, doctors, and the lavender-shaded post-marital fade to black? No, wait, not that far back. I meant, back in the late eighties – think Fabio covers – when Romance Novels featured sex, but the heroine was always a virgin, and…
Sometimes, I wonder why I want to write publish novels. Writing I will always do, because I like a good story and no other author ever tells quite the story I want to hear. Sometimes, I wonder why I work and polish and rewrite ’til so late at night that…
