<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> Well, hello! I’ve just had the most fantabulous weekend. It totally makes up for the weekend of suck I had last week. I spent Friday – Sunday participating in the Central Pennsylvania Romance Writers annual retreat. I wrote almost 10,000 words — (and seriously, I should’ve done that last 700 but my brain [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> Here I am at my annual CPRW writer’s retreat. Yesterday I didn’t get much done — was forced to watch the season finale of Supernatural with friends who hadn’t seen it. (No hardship.) Then wrote, did an interview, wrote, dinner, wrote, annual celebration of drinks at Applebee’s, and then STAR TREK. I loved [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> Feels like I haven’t blogged in a long time. Well, I’ve been writing. You know, doin’ that thang that pays me the moneez. Today I did 22 pages, which felt super good since the previous couple days I’ve only managed…well, much less than that. I have to, you see. I have to crank [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> 16 pages today Getting the hang of it, now. Figuring them out. Of course it’s Friday and the weekend is not a good time for writing. Hope I can hang onto this until Monday. But I think I can. I’m 87 pages into it, it’s starting to find its way. I’m starting to [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> Today: 13 pages They didn’t come easily at first but once I buckled down and started rolling, the flavor started coming through, along with a possible sub-plot. lines of the day: “Madame,” Cassian said coldly, “I will thank you to unhand me at once. Your exuberance is…unseemly.” “Your mercy,” the woman said without [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> So I figured out that if I write at a moderate pace (read SLOW) I can be finished with the first draft of this next book by the time my kids get out of school. This pleases me, as I feel I’ve lost quite a bit of writing time. But my goal was [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> Well, well, well, Amazon.com, how does it feel when the mighty hammer of smut readers and queers and kinksters comes down to smite you? I don’t need to reprint the email that people are receiving after complaining to Amazon.com about the whole ratings stripping debacle, but I do like that they admitted it [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> And here we are in a new one, already. RT is one week away (for me, I’m getting there early.) I have seven days to finish packing, clean my house, prepare my family for my absence…and write. Oh, yeah, somehow that’s sort of fallen by the wayside over the past couple weeks. That’s [...]

I’d like to talk about being a consumer. I’m an author, yes, but I also READ, which means I buy books…and I know a lot of authors think Amazon.com is the devil, but frankly, when I order something and have the option to pay a flat annual fee for two-day delivery which gets my stuff [...]