Archive for October, 2006

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Shocking new career-threatening discovery

  have abruptly realized that I dislike alpha males.
Does this spell the instant death of my nascent career as a romance author?

7 Comments » - Posted in Writing by CM

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

I have a work in progress!

he good news is that the vague stirrings of character suddenly fleshed out last night into an Actual Work in Progress, which I am currently calling “Untitled Ornothological Work of Indeterminate Suckage” (not a long-term title that I plan on pitching).
The other good news is that I have a very clear idea for what must […]

14 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology by CM

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Swept Away (Toni Blake)

  picked up a copy of Swept Away today and read it over dinner. Let me preface this by saying that as a general rule, I don’t like contemporaries. I guess I’ve just read too many of them where the women give up satisfying careers to be wives. I don’t have a […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Reviews by CM

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

CM’s Guide to Romance Novels

n which CM discusses romance novels and names names, which is probably not a smart thing to do since she wants to be published. Note that she has not done so yet, and so this should all be taken with a very healthy dose of salt.
Having read several thousand romance novels, I can, without […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Romancery, Writing by CM

Friday, October 27th, 2006

The End of FanLit

anlit’s done. I can barely believe that scarcely over a month ago, I submitted my first entry. Over the course of that month, my life has changed drastically.
Well, drastically. Erm. Let’s see. I’m still in the same job, and I’m still planning on doing the same job after I finish […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Writing by CM