Archive for October, 2007
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Let’s just take a moment to consider how we like writing about people not necessarily people okay? In honor of Thursday Thirteen and Day Jobs From Hell I bring you 13 things guaranteed to piss off your waitress. If you have a 13 things about your job and you’d like to guest blog let me [...]
Subgenres, Evolution, and Reader Expectations
I was talking with another writer friend recently about subgenres. She was complaining that people lumped anything that was sent in a contemporary period and contained some form of magic together as “urban fantasy,” when there have been long-standing authors like Charles de Lint who set a prior standard.
Well, there’s a point to that. The [...]
I’ve Lost It
That ability to speak coherently on a wide variety of topics? To be the hostess with the mostess? Gone, baby, gone. I’ve been to a few parties recently and I realized I was speaking a different language. A language all of you understand-writer-ese.
I was asked about my books by interested family and friends-and [...]
Howl-o-ween
Today launches the first of three weeks of how people torture their pets at Halloween. I’ve given this one a movie theme. Enjoy!
Luke, I am your…dog?
DO or do not…there is no puppy.
Man, this is just wrong. That hair was bad enough on the real Princess Leia.
I still hear that annoying man screaming D’Artangnon! at Chris [...]
“What If”……
We’ve been having a wonderful time at the Romance Divas Sci Fi Futuristic Workshop. It got me thinking. I know. It’s dangerous.
The one thing that romance, science fiction and fantasy have in common is the questions it poses. “What if….”
What if a sheik fell in love with a woman lost in [...]
Trying Not To Be “That” Mother
Okay…since I never really ever post about truly “writer” stuff….I decided I’ll continue with that this week too. I told myself when I had kids that I’d never be one of “those” mothers. You know…the type that practically takes over their kids lives and does eveything for them and in doing so, end up raising [...]
Divas Workshop
Hey all, our server went down and we’ve lost some posts…never fear, we have returned better than ever. Carry on.
And just a little FYI of stuff that’s going on this weekend. Check it out.
Writing Out of this World Romance with Some of The Hottest Authors in the Science Fiction and Futuristic Genres
October 12th, 13th, [...]
