Archive for July, 2007
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
His Magic Schlong
here are a couple of so-called rules that exist in romance novels, all of which can be broken. But there are some things that I suspect looked like rules ten or twenty years ago, but which we might scratch our heads about now, or even roll our eyes when the execution is too ridiculous.
For […]
20 Comments » - Posted in Reading, Romancery, Writing by CM
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Two Debut Historicals
read historical romance debuts, of course. In part it’s research–what’s selling, and why? But in part it’s just good plain fun. There are very few debut novels that are absolutely perfect (off the top of my head, I can think of only twothree “first novels” that I would describe as absolute […]
10 Comments » - Posted in Reviews, Romancery by CM
Saturday, July 21st, 2007
Sigh.
he problem with (a) reading really fast and (b) being willing to stay up all night finishing Harry Potter is that when you finish the book at 4:30 in the morning, there’s nobody to talk to about it.
Sigh.
9 Comments » - Posted in Reading by CM
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Harry Potter Predictions
o in 26 hours and forty minutes, the next Harry Potter will come out, and I will read it, without stopping for anything.
I have decided to make predictions (I’ve been dodging the Harry Potter spoilers right and left, so these are virgin spoilers).
Ron will die, and it will have something to do with Harry’s wand, […]
10 Comments » - Posted in Reading by CM
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
The RWA Publishers Scandal
don’t have a dog in this race. At this point, I am (very optimistically) hoping that when my book is finished and revised and polished, that I will one day be able to sell it–or another book–to a New York publishing house. I’m personally not interested in epublishing at this point for […]
21 Comments » - Posted in Romancery by CM
Monday, July 16th, 2007
Nationals Rocked!
spent most of the day sleeping, trying to catch up on what I missed these last few days. I never wanted to go to bed; there were always great people there, great conversations to have, new people to meet. There were too many highlights to list. There were the free books. […]
16 Comments » - Posted in Romancery by CM
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
The Literacy Signing Report
ell, I attended the Literacy Signing last night. I hadn’t realized quite how long it was going to take, and I got fewer books than I had intended over all. I made an effort to avoid the long queues for major authors (even though I love and adore many of them) because I […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Racism in Romance by CM
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
What I’m going to be doing at RWA’s Literacy Signing
‘m gearing up for Nationals this next week, and boy am I excited! I’m polishing my professional yet comfortable shoes; I’m trying to figure out where I hid my business cards. I’m frantically reading all the advice that people have offered about how to prepare for Nationals, and thinking about how best to […]
16 Comments » - Posted in Racism in Romance by CM
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
My dirty secret
have a dirty secret. I listen to conversations. I listen to private conversations. In restaurants, on the bus, on the street–you name it. If it’s in earshot, I’m listening. I can’t help it.
Okay. I can help it. I just don’t want to. And occasionally–like tonight–I hear […]
