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 Featuring Dead Bodies
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 absolutely [...]

(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 three minor [...]

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 my [...]

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 about [...]

Between the DABWAHA Tournament and going over DG3 (now known—for now—as No Surrender) for a final pass before finally punting it in my editor’s direction, I’ve been neglecting the blog.
So here’s a picture of the dog (because I know that’s what y’all really want). I apologize for the crappy cell-shot, but here’s what Mini looks [...]

I’d like to take a moment to remind everybody of Dear Authors’ and the Smart Bitches’ devotion to saving the contemporary, which will, in turn, save the world.
As you know, they will be going forward with the next leg of this campaign in mere days, with Smooth-Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas chosen as the next [...]

From now until 6pm eastern, head to the DABWAHA voting page and vote for The Money Man’s Seduction by Leslie LaFoy so a category romance will advance to the second round!
(You know, and so my bracket remains intact. You could vote for Kushiel’s Mercy while you’re there, too.)

Yes, I’m begging! Head over to the DABWAHA voting page and vote for Collision Course by K.A. Mitchell! (You don’t have to have filled out a bracket or have an ID to vote!)
Why?
1) It’s a Samhain book and we’d love to see it move forward!
2) I’ve heard great things about this book!
3) And perhaps most [...]

The Short Kid came home with an award certificate from school the other day. The boys have accumulated reams of these over the years, but this was a first:

Excellence in…what?

Lunch!
He definitely gets that from me. (The fact it took months from the time it was dated to the time I got it…unfortunately he gets that [...]