Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
New Math
was just looking for a plane ticket–daydreaming, more like. I thought the price was pretty high–around four hundred bucks–when I saw this little notation. “Get this flight plus a rental car for $187!”
How on earth could that possibly be the case? I checked. I double checked. I triple checked. And then I bought the […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Random by CM
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Website Update
made a brief place-holder webpage after FanLit. It’s been sitting there for a while, not doing anything, and basically disconnected from this blog. And as the months have passed–and I’ve clarified my voice, and the style of story that I like to tell, that webpage has seemed increasingly divorced from what I […]
12 Comments » - Posted in Romancery by CM
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Good news!
few months ago, I entered From the Heart Romance Writer’s Golden Gateway contest. And it wasn’t only me–with me were two of my beloved critique partners, Tessa Dare and India Carolina.
I have been waiting for them to put up the announcement, but they haven’t, and it’s been days. So you can’t see […]
12 Comments » - Posted in Legalese by CM
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Confessions of a Music-aholic
can’t remember a time when music wasn’t playing in the house where I grew up. My dad started with a record changer (the kind where you could pile 10 records on top, and it would move them off–at least that’s how I remember it when I was five) and moved to a double-sided […]
10 Comments » - Posted in Music by CM
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
The Double Standard
t’s been hashed and rehashed so many times that I don’t want to directly discuss it. But you know what I mean. In romance novels, the hero can start out conniving and cruel. He can plot to seduce the heroine and ruin her. He can be the most cold-hearted selfish bastard […]
