IF your car is old enough to vote, and IF the radio’s LCD is baked black and no longer displays any tuning information, and IF someone who is related to you drives your car and changes the stations, and IF they leave it not on a station of Christmas music but on a rap station… [...]
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22
Nov
…she said on opposite day. Today I’m guest blogging with Mia Marlowe on The Wait: that limbo-time between publication contract and publication date. In some ways, life changes, and in some very prosaic ways it stays exactly the same. Stop by and render judgment on my post, and you will be entered in the daily [...]
18
Nov
I’m the featured victim/volunteer today on Mia Marlowe’s blog! Most Thursdays, Mia runs an online critique group called Red Pencil Thursday, and today’s my turn in the sun. It is a little warm here… Stop on by and get a look at the first 500 words of my new WIP, and leave your two cents! [...]
17
Nov
Folks, make room on your Thanksgiving tables for some delicious birds cooked Regency-style. They didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving themselves — that’s an American holiday — but swan or peacock was always appropriate for Christmas. So you can just hold onto this recipe for another month if you want to be more authentic. I’m paraphrasing the recipe [...]
11
Nov
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Strange Characters
Posted by Theresa Published in Life, ReadingHeroes and heroines are always saying wise things. “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” (Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice) “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” (Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind) “I’m all for denial. You can convince yourself of any scenario you choose and it keeps [...]
7
Nov
I really enjoy Wendy the Super Librarian’s Random Romance Sunday feature; you just never know what you’ll run across. I love used bookstores for the same reason. Thus, this post. A few days ago I went to one of those bag sales used bookstores have. You know, where you get a bag and, for $5, [...]
1
Nov
Welcome to another contest, and another interview with an author I love! Today we’re talking to the multi-talented, multi-identitied Maggie Robinson. Maggie is the author of the delicious Regency-set Courtesan Court novels for Kensington Brava. Her Courtesan Court novella “Not Quite a Courtesan” will be published November 30 in the anthology LORDS OF PASSION (also [...]