Coolness. My entry made it to round three of the Samhain First line contest. Rosalind’s butter-yellow silk gown made her stand out from the crowd of black-clad sophisticates like a baby chick amid a murder of hungry crows. Lost in a shifting sea of beautiful faces, she looked for her…
Is it just me, or are there a few too many snarky-heroined open-ended first-person paranormal series out there? I can’t buy books because I am broke, so I picked up Karen Marie Morning’s latest fairy-flavored offering from the New Books shelf at the local biblioteca. She’s not my usual style…
I’ve been thinking about contests lately. I’ve never considered my competitive side to be a flaw, but it does twist me in knots. I’ve nothing but admiration for people who beat me fairly. When I lose at something, I don’t throw fits, I ruminate and review and figure out where…
Like a Thief in the Night 26,167 / 25,000(104.7%) I did it. I finished “Like a Thief in the Night” and sent it off to Samhain yesterday – at the bitter end of the deadline for their Strangers in the Night Valentine 2008 anthology. I thought I would feel more…
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…
I spend a lot of time talking about what I don’t like in a Romance novel. I make fun of dumb heroines, overly macho heroes, and every other aspect of the genre – but only out of love. The sad truth of the matter is that I, like so many…
