Blog Archive

RWA Conference Coverage: What’s Your Pleasure?

RWA Nationals are coming up July 15  – 18 and this year both Lynn Spencer and I will be attending. In previous years, AAR has offered extensive coverage – usually after the conference is over.  But…

True Blood: A Massive Dose of WTF

If you haven’t watched this week’s season two True Blood debut and you plan to at any time in the future, stop reading. Seriously. Because I have a massive bug up my butt and I need…

Toni Blake Giveaway!

Looking for a good contemporary read? Author Toni Blake is about to make 5 lucky readers very happy. She is giving away copies of her latest novel, One Reckless Summer. To enter, simply comment below. If…

Summer TV Roundup

God help me, I’m watching I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. The Heidi-Spencer drama (two of the most pointless people ever in the history of the world – right up there with Paris Hilton) caught…

In Search of Missing Socks

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cIQKXrPHbg I’ve been on a cleaning/reorganizing frenzy over the past few weeks. Finally, yesterday, I began to clean out my bedroom closet. I was positive, that by the time I reached the back of the closet…

The Heroines We Hate

I’ve often felt that romance readers are unduly harsh on heroines.  If my literature professor could talk about hero complexes and hubris and approach their ginormous issues rationally and analytically, why can’t we do the same…

Meredith Duran ARC Winner

elainec is the lucky random winner of the ARC of Bound By Your Touch. The book is released on June 30th and I can’t wait to begin discussing it on the message boards. Congrats to elainec…

The Book Police Strike Again!

For the third time in five years, I’ve actually been asked to either put up my book or leave a public place because people find my reading material offensive.  The most recent offender? The Madness of Lord…

The Real Housewives

I have a new TV guilty pleasure:  Brava’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey.  None of the others (Orange County, New York, Atlanta) ever appealed to me at all and if I passed them while channel surfing,  I…