Ratings on books (see Jordan taking about the March RWR article by agent Ethan Ellenberg) is an issue I’m still on the fence about. When it comes to movies and video games, I’m a parent–I’m all for them. But for romance novels? Unless they’re marked YA, they’re for grown-ups, right?
And isn’t […]

Don’t try to have intelligent conversation on other people’s blogs when overtired and writing a horrendously torturous blurb.
Question for the Magic 8 Ball: Will this blurb make anybody want to read my book?
Answer: NO!
(It even used all caps. Nice.)
The good news is I finally got my March RWR, and I […]

This is where my hubby went atv-ing Saturday. Without me.

Everybody seems to have their March RWR’s but me, too.

I’ll never complain about writing a synopsis again. (Well, I might, but I’ll edit this out of the archives first.)
I’ve been working on the blurb for Twice Upon A Roadtrip. The teaser paragraphs, or whatever they’re called. I thought it would be easy, because I’ve written my share of synopses, after all. […]

My entry’s up at Romancing The Blog.
And I’m swearing like mad at IE over here. I hear that not only is the comment box running away, but the links don’t line up right and disappear and reappear when scrolling (sounds like the IE Peekaboo bug, darnit), but even worse, half my bio is hiding […]

Since I couldn’t get the comment smilies to work, I decided to try out the static pages feature of WordPress. So over there in the links —> you’ll find Around the Site. I’ve got the bio page up, with the book page to come as soon as I can wrap my head […]

Excuse me while I continue my recent descent into laziness and refer y’all to Alison’s discussion on storytelling and writing. (I don’t even know what trackbacks and pingbacks are, never mind whether I should be using them here. I do, though, know what a cornerback is.)
Ellen said:
I’m still confused about the difference between […]

Alison asked the question “Can wordsmithing get in the way of the story?” My immediate answer was “Indubitably.”
My answer came from my perception of the question: will overly-crafted fifty-dollar words beloved by the author get in the way? Yes. Indubitably.
But…

Jordan mentioned a “how-to” book I don’t have, so I had to run over to Amazon to check it out: Immediate Fiction : A Complete Writing Course by Jerry Cleaver.
Than I read the first line of the editorial reviews:
Musicians and artists might need talent to succeed, but writers don’t, says Jerry Cleaver […]

Oh, those lovely monkeys are really screwing with the muse tonight. For a variety of reasons, I’m going to take a shot at expanding the word count on Roadtrip. But I can’t read the damn thing!
Every time I look at the words on the page I get a little panic mini-attack. OMG. […]