Shannon Stacey

So RWA hatin’ on the hot books has come up again. So far there hasn’t been any shrieking like a wild banshee, so it’s an interesting conversation. (But it’s still early, of course.) Anyway, here are my suggestions for the single title RITA categories: Best Contemporary Romance Best Romance Featuring Smokin’ Hot Sex Best Romance [...]

I’ll admit it—I’m an iPod Touch cheerleader. When Apple served up the Kool-Aid, I gulped it down and said, “Can I have some more, please?” I absolutely love reading ebooks on the iTouch. Backlit, crisp screen, fits perfectly in my hand so I can read and swipe to the turn the pages one-handed. There was [...]

(Yeah, you’re welcome for the earworm.) Every time I think I’m within a few hours of sending No Surrender (aka DG3) to my iPod Touch for a final, reader-brained read through, another plothole sucks me in. Last night I vented my issues to my husband and the Tall Kid, who then filled two major and [...]

I think iTunes-esque single downloadable songs are the greatest invention since the disposable sanitary napkin. (Yeah, that’s a good reason not to time travel right there.) I graduated in 1990, so I did the middle and high school thing in the mid- to late eighties, and I remember sitting with my little boombox, waiting for [...]

I swear, everytime I fix/tweak/spackle something in DG3 No Surrender, another leak/misalignment/hole pops out at me. Little nitpicky stuff—like them going out without the bulletproof gear Tony used in On the Edge—but fixing it’s a pain in the butt. It’s also mentally/creatively exhausting, which is why I’ve been pulling a blank on something to blog [...]