Sunday, June 29, 2008

Eats, Shoots And Leaves.... grammar may be different in outer space

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I took the title of Lynne Truss's superb bestseller because this isn't intended as a public argument about copy-editing and the seri...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Meet Me on the Holodeck

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The Baltimore SUN recently had an article about a computer simulation called "Virtual Iraq," used to treat veterans suffering fro...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Persistence Pays

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BLAKE SNYDER SAID IN HIS BLOG ENTRY "Closer" on June 19, 2008 Every “no” is one step closer to a “yes.” http://www.blakesnyder.com...
Monday, June 23, 2008

One Month and Counting: More Relentless Promo

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Yep, we're a bit more than a month from SHADES OF DARK release on July 29th (though I know from past releases that my books often come o...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Of dinosaurs and bodice rippers

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"Do you read Romance novels?" MSNBC asks. "Asks" might not be the mot juste. Their skewed manner of asking might be bett...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Becoming Creative

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To glance back briefly at my last week’s post, I stumbled upon a sentence in Garrison Keillor’s column today that sums up the topic perfe...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Futurology of Romance

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Folks: I prepared a post that was to go up Tuesday June 3 and it didn't, so I found it in blogger's listing and posted it -- but as ...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Shades of Dark - Coming July!

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Yes, I know I've been absent. I plead the usual writing insanity and a move to Ohio for the summer. While I try to dig out from under it...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Myths. Timeless inspiration

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My Knight's Fork cover flats arrived this week. This is a thrilling and flattering experience. It's hard to put into words the emoti...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

What Makes Us Care?

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A Canadian friend sent me an article that appeared in the GLOBE AND MAIL last July, on the topic, "What Makes Us Care." Why do ...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Moonstruck

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MOONSTRUCK by Susan Grant HQN Books, June 1, 2008 PEACE IS FOR LITTLE GIRLS. And Coalition starship admiral Brit Bandar is one tough woman. ...
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Sunday, June 08, 2008

E=mc2 -- God clapped

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Last night on the Science Channel someone defined science in terms of "finding out what we don't know" on a programme about th...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

MIDNIGHT TREAT Release

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I’m thrilled to announce the publication of MIDNIGHT TREAT, an anthology from Pocket Books reprinting three erotic paranormal romance novell...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Real World Building

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Folks: This post below was supposed to go up last Tuesday, but it didn't. So I'll put it up today -- and just let you know that NEV...
Sunday, June 01, 2008

Why I write... alien romance

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George Orwell is one of my literary heroes, along with Shakespeare, Tolkien, Asimov and Georgette Heyer. George Orwell is best known for Nin...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Action Scenes

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One of my e-mail lists had a recent thread on writing action scenes. That’s one of the most difficult parts of fiction writing for me, partl...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Preserving Worlds That Have Been Built

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Most people didn't think of Star Trek: The Original Series as "alien romance" but I'm telling you the FAN WRITERS did! It...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Omnipotence

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I write futuristic romances about an alien royal family whose male members are so widely mistaken for gods, that they believe their own myst...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

"When I Saw the ET...."

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This is SO mind-blowing! Everybody go over to Suzette Haden Elgin's blog right away and read this post entitled "Writing Science Fi...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The Art of Fantasy Worldbuilding In SF

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Google Alerts sent me the following alert on "Jacqueline Lichtenberg" http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2008/05/09/building-you...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Sexism and the English language

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I love writing alien romance in part because it allows me to comment on our society and our ingrained beliefs without being offensive... I h...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Crossover Promotion

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How can a new book be effectively used to promote other books in an author’s backlist? What’s the secret to luring readers who’ve enjoyed ...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The Exogamous Human Female

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I've been thinking a lot about ethics lately, more even than morals. But you can't really separate the two from your total view of t...
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