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My Contemporary Dilemma
Series romances with contemporary settings appear to be going strong. Harlequin releases plenty of them every month and readers (including me) eagerly snatch them up. However, single title contemporaries are a little harder to find. Anyone…
Music's New Goddess
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw It’s a name that’s been applied to Adele by more than one person. Beyonce has said that listening to her music is “like listening to God.” She’s actually been quietly around for a couple of…
Is it Spring Yet?
I saw them! Yesterday I took a brief walk at lunch in the cold and rain and saw them; tiny little crocus shoots. Finally! Yes, it’s nearly May, and it’s still freezing cold in much of…
Readers Love eBooks. Too Bad Publishers Still Don’t Get It.
In case you missed it, in February sales of eBooks were up an astonishing 202% from the same month just a year before. To make the news even more impressive, for the first time eBooks exceeded…
Earth Day
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lElMMsrI-z8 I recently did a presentation for class on the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, which had been the largest ecological disaster in America at the time. That dubious distinction was usurped, of course, and…
Tulip envy
Yesterday I visited the Bundesgartenschau in Koblenz. Koblenz is a lovely city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, and Bundesgartenschau can be translated as National Garden Show. There are three venues across the…
Romance Author Booksignings: April and Beyond
Earlier this month I attended a booksigning by one of my favorite historical mystery authors, Jacqueline Winspear, the author of the popular Maisie Dobbs series. If you haven’t heard about the series and like mysteries set…