Sunday, August 03, 2008

A quest, a queue, and a mission statement

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Knight's Fork is a quest story, at least in part. Unlike Forced Mate , in which the hero thought of himself as on a quest to find his p...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Romance Changes Lives

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A few days ago I read an article about a Turkish soap opera called NOOR, wildly popular in the Middle East . The hero is the romantic idol o...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Admin notice

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To Anyone Who May Have Commented... and their comment didn't post.... Rowena apologizes sincerely for the inconvenience. Her email overf...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

TITLE as Marketing Tool - Part One

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I think Margaret Carter, in her Thursday July 24 th post, has missed an important point about MARKETING. The Newspaper she sites was of co...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Cock down

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That's my alien romance "craft" thought for the day, and you can bet that I'm going to give it to Prince Thor-quentin when...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Book Titles

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Last Sunday’s paper contained an article about the effect of titles on book sales. The premise seemed to be that the right or wrong title ca...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Astrology Just For Writers - Part 2

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Linnea has posted on Beauty, the standards of Beauty and what causes us to be attracted to percieved Beauty. Of course all the poets, philo...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

Beauty is in the eye of...

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Talking about technology and world building prodded this thought: how did (or would) people judge beauty if there was no mass media (or acce...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Lost knowledge -- the paradox of technology

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It's hard being an alien. Really, I'm not, but my perspective is that of someone transplanted, and I'm acutely aware of the pote...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Voice

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I've been reading UNDEAD AND UNWORTHY, MaryJanice Davidson's latest novel in her Betsy, Vampire Queen series. The book made me thi...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Astrology Just For Writers

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Geps Morris, a writer on LinkedIn asked: Can anyone who believes in Astrology offer any hypothesis for how it might 'work'? I'm ...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

If Authors could Interview Readers...

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Interviews, as Rowena noted, can either be interesting or snoozers. Having spent several years as a news reporter, working in the print and ...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

What makes a good interview?

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Since this is a craft blog, I'm probably not asking in the right place! However, I'm wondering whether there is a "one size fit...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

What Writers Should Avoid—or Not?

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From the Writer's Digest Book Club, I recently bought a book called DON'T MURDER YOUR MYSTERY, by Chris Roerden. The author discu...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Westercon 2008 Report

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I flew to Las Vegas with my husband for Westercon the day before programming started. We had bought tickets in January, so our fare was rea...
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Monday, July 07, 2008

A CHALLENGE: So, why do you write this crazy genre?

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Romance novels are one of the top two best sellling genres out there, coming in at about forty-five to fifty-five per cent of all books sold...
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Sunday, July 06, 2008

A dog eating contest

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When a headline makes me blink, I make a note of it. An alien would be forgiven for taking "a dog eating contest" literally. There...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Originality

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND includes a column called "We're Only Human." Its June-July essay is headlined, "Got an Original ...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Dancing With Fire

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I know I'm a bad blogger because every time I come here I have to recover my password again. And they keep changing how e blogger works...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Indiana Jones 4

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WEDNESDAY JULY 2 I'll be going to Las Vegas for Westercon. So before we discuss Indiana Jones, here is my program item schedule: Here i...
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