Thursday, August 31, 2006

WRITING THE OTHER

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This is the title of a book I just read. By Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Wood, it's a practical handbook on writing about people of different ...
Monday, August 28, 2006

Creating Chasidah...

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First of all--and a bit off topic--I've been asked how I pronounce my character's name: Chasidah. To me, it's cha-SEE-dah. Or c...
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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Men With Knives

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Men with knives... will they always be necessary? I'm not thinking about alien assassins, aliens with table manners, or futuristic barba...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

Colby Hodge the missing blogger

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Yes, I've been missing my post days. But I have a good excuse. I've been trying to turn back time. Or at least wishing I could. ...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Communicating with Aliens

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One problem we have to deal with when our characters travel to other worlds or meet people from other cultures or species is language. J. R....
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Monday, August 21, 2006

Holy _______!

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Go ahead. Fill in the blank in the title above. Or here: Holy _____! What you choose tells you (and me) a lot about what you--personally and...
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Sunday, August 20, 2006

Alien romance – Coitus interruptus

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“Rowena, do you like writing sex scenes?” I was asked recently. It’s the sort of question that makes one want to straddle the fence. Well, ...
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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Alien Romance on TV

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Mention of Superman and BEWITCHED started me thinking about "aliens" of various kinds in TV series. The witches and warlocks in BE...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Star Trek, WorldCon, & Alien Romance

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Folks: First I want to say that I won't be posting next week, so someone else can snatch the Tuesday slot in this blog. And then I want...
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Monday, August 14, 2006

Beauty and the (Alien) Beast

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I recently was pointed to a rather demeaning article about the romance genre as seen from the viewpoint of a visitor to a recent Romantic Ti...
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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Got Magic?

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Ah! Is that a hot button for you? It is for me. How many of us have read, or been told, that if it's Science Fiction there cannot be mag...
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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Interbreeding

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If you haven't read Larry Niven's essay "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex," check it out: http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman...
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

The Soul Mate

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Folks: Many Alien Romance stories show us how a human and an alien could nevertheless be soul mates, and after various harrowing difficultie...
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Monday, August 07, 2006

It's Not Just Ships That Shoot...

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I had a joyous email yesterday from a friend and sister author who's decided to start writing SFR. She already writes action-adventure r...
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Sunday, August 06, 2006

Afterthought

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I should have posted this....
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A step too far

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Maybe I'm weird, but when I read a novel -- whether it is an alien romance, or totally terrestrial -- I expect to come across the scene ...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

King Kong

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Last week I saw the most recent remake of KING KONG. I liked it better than I'd expected, except that I agree it's too long. The fir...
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

World Science Fiction Convention

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Folks: Congratulations Linnea -- Gabriel's Ghost is an absolute favorite of mine! At LAConIV, ( http://www.laconiv.org/ ) the World Sci...
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Monday, July 31, 2006

A Good Day For SFR in the Galaxy

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Short blog today because 1) my main pc is down thanks to an 'upgrade' by my firewall/anti spam/anti virus software, and 2) exhaustio...
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

The Most Extreme

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Everything I need to know about constructing aliens, I learned from Animal Planet. Well, not quite everything, but an awful lot. That networ...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Religious Warfare in Space

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Here's the question. Can romance -- or true love actually -- reach across a gulf between the stars dividing human and non-human and heal...
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Monday, July 24, 2006

Isn't She Lovely?

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How bitchy is too bitchy? I had the divine good fortune recently to preview the first draft of a science fiction romance novel--it was excel...
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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Empowerment or Assimilation?

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Recently I read an article in a local paper about the trend of women in TV programs who are "empowered" by magic, psychic gifts, o...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

What's Missing on Television

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Folks: At the upcoming World Science Fiction convention, I may have an opportunity (if schedules allow and appointments happen) to speak to ...
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Monday, July 17, 2006

One Picture Is Worth...

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Even though I deal in words, I'm going to talk about pictures on this Monday. Images. Graphics. Cover art and how it influences the sto...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Intimate Adventure with Dragons

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Many SF and fantasy authors have written about bonds between dragons and human partners, notably Anne McCaffrey and more recently Mercedes L...
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