Archive for May, 2007
Monday, May 28th, 2007
Winners & Statistics
irst, the winners! The winner of the random drawing is . . . Elyssa! As for the job I’d most like to have, let’s see. You all gave me some really great options, and it’s hard to choose just one. But I have to say that Estelle’s last choice sounds pretty […]
17 Comments » - Posted in Real Life by CM
Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Eight Days (a contest)
ell.
I have eight days to finish up a few projects here at work, pack up everything in my apartment, put it all in a car, and drive across the country. Yes, the eight days includes the driving time, and no, I can’t start driving until Friday night.
But my pain is your gain. I’ve […]
25 Comments » - Posted in Contest by CM
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Go check it out!
f you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, you should go buy a copy of Ericka Scott’s Crystal Clear, which just came out today. I just finished it. It’s fantastic–suspenseful and hot and beautifully written. I’m in awe, and I hope that this is the first of many from one […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Reading by CM
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Well.
just wrote a scene that took on a life of its own, in a rather frightening way. It wasn’t supposed to be a happy scene; it features my heroine and a rather unsavory character who we meet in the first chapter of the book. In my brief sketch of the chapter, I’d […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Legalese, Writing by CM
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Bemoaning words
f you haven’t noticed, I really like words. And one of my favorite words ever is just not usable in a historical.
Metastasize.
It’s a beauty of a word. There isn’t another word out there that can quite capture the sheer virulence of metastasization. It’s a word that carries with it all the fright […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Writing by CM
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
How to use the power of Google to prevent anachronisms
ou’ve heard it a million times. “Such and such is an anachronism,” somebody tells you.
Really? Some examples are, as Tessa Dare points out, “I am sorry.” Some people say that the use of “I’m sorry” as an apology is anachronistic, dating only from the early 1900s. False! Tessa pulls up […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Writing by CM
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Minor addendum to entails
ust in case you were curious, there’s one other thing you need to know about entailed property. Remember how I told you that you could suffer a common recovery to break an entail?
One giant exception: Not in Scotland. In Scotland, you were pretty much stuck with an entail.
I haven’t verified Ireland, but […]
9 Comments » - Posted in Legalese by CM
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Change to Golden Heart/RITA Categories?
WA is suggesting the following changes to its categories:
9.2.6. BEST SHORT HISTORICAL ROMANCE BEST HISTORICAL ROMANCE TO 1820- novels or sagas that have a strong romantic element throughout. The word count for these novels is 40,000-95,000 words. Romantic historical novel with a primary setting up to the year 1820. The story may take place at […]
13 Comments » - Posted in Writing by CM
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Random Pet Peeve
he use of the word “literally” to mean something other than, well, “literally.”
For instance, I was told today that “my head literally exploded.” Uh, no. Your head did not literally explode. It may have done so figuratively, but literal and figurative are opposites.
But using literally to mean something similar to “like, whoa” […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Random by CM
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Property Ownership
o. You have a daughter. And you want her to live reasonably well. But you don’t know who she’ll marry, and a husband could leave her destitute. What do you do?
At law, everything the wife has is the husband’s. But that is something that is only true at law–note the […]
