Shannon: Why are you being such a :censor:? Olivia: You didn’t tell me before I had sex with the guy that he was dead! Shannon: I didn’t know he was dead then. And he’s not really dead now. Just undead. Olivia: I liked it better when he was un-undead. Shannon: Whatever. But I can’t let [...]
Money Redux
by Shannon on April 30, 2005 in Writing--biz
Lee Goldberg mentions one of Alison’s previous posts in which she discloses her earnings for one of her Blaze novels. I think Alison’s generosity with this information is awesome! Writing is one of those wonderfully rare careers one delves into with no true idea of what the paycheck will be, and sharing this kind of [...]
TGIF
by Shannon on April 29, 2005 in General
My column, “The Hooking Author’s Secret Bank Account,” is up at RTB this morning. Not until this morning did I realize how ‘corner of Vine and Sunset’ that sounded. Hooks. Secret Babies, and virgins and such. J.C. Wilder is keeping an RT journal! The imagined visual of EC authors dropping condom-balloon animals on unsuspecting diners [...]
Left behind musings
by Shannon on April 27, 2005 in General
To mourn being a Left Behind for the RT convention, I’ll take a look ahead to being a Left Behind for the RWA convention. After torturing myself with the recently-arrived schedule for Nationals, here are the workshops I’ll most miss not getting to attend: It’s Not Just Sex—An Insider’s Look at Erotic Romance—Jaci Burton, Cricket [...]
Aggravations abound
by Shannon on April 27, 2005 in General
First one—minor, kind of—I bought a book that normally wouldn’t have blipped on my reading radar but for the hot buzz (especially because of the historical setting): Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase. THEN I get it home, and it’s part of a freaking series, and is it the first one? No. So now I have [...]








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