Meow?!

If you’ve ever worried what long-term effect text-messaging, LOL or 733+ speak might have on literature, I have good news.
Child #1, who is fourteen now, has reported that one of her friends on the internet told her the following:
“However many exclamations you leave in your manuscript is how many cats you’ll have when you get [...]

Something New

Okay, so it’s already June 22nd, but I finally posted my first montly editor’s pick over on the LPI blog.
Poor Aubrey. We’ve had to sit on this first pick forever, thanks to some red tape.
Anyway, erotica snobs, rejoice. There are literary authors out there who can scorch your toenail polish. My first pick proves it [...]

Follow-up on RWA

Okay, so I got to thinking today, which is never good.
Let’s say someone DID start a new romance organization specifically geared toward digital authors.
What would the “legitimate publisher” guidelines then be? What would they be based on?

All Right, Already

After five emails asking why I wasn’t all in a tizz over the RWA happenings, here’s my official statement. My opinion might be unpopular, but it is what it is, so…
First, I personally don’t believe the value of RWA truly lies in what RWA can do for you, rather its membership. For a majority of [...]

…an den?

Brian just showed me one more reason to love the internet.

Already?

I’m not sure how, but it’s gotten to be nearly that time again… 
RWA National is almost upon us. I’ve decided not to go this year, so I’ll do an online workshop again.
It sure helps to have a topic, and that’s where y’all come in.
Suggestions?
(Bear in mind I’m an editor, Jim, not a marketing/branding guru)

eHouston, We’ve Got A Problem

ETA: This has been sitting in my drafts folder for almost a week, and I had every intention of letting it languish there indefinitely because it read too much like a rant, and I’ve been doing too much ranting lately.
But then I saw this DA post and changed my mind, because the crux of it has [...]

A New Pet-Peeve

Egregiously busy around here, as ever.
And of course I surface to gripe about something that used to annoy me, but now makes me downright mad.
Secondary characters in romances: You know the ones — the mother, the sister, brother, partner, gay BFF who says the right thing at just the right time. The “heartfelt talk” that [...]