A Brief Open Letter to Hayley Williams of Paramore

Dear Ms. Williams, If there are any better fans in the world than yours – engaging, insightful, passionate, creative, and oh so gracious to a writer in a genre most of them probably never read – well, I defy the world to convince me of it. Thanks for sharing a few of them with me [...]

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Intense Surge of Heat

Regular blog followers, all two of you, already know a bit about my relationship with New Moon.  So a month or so ago I was browsing through the off-brand shampoo and purportedly healthful cookies set aside for closeout at my local supermarket, when what should I come across but this: I’d seen these displayed right [...]

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Look at This Awesome Book

So remember when I toured that house in Charleston, South Carolina, and got giddy about seeing a piece of silverwork credited to “Hester Bateman, one of eighteenth-century London’s most prominent woman silversmiths?” Well, historical-romance author/Edwardian Promenade blogger Evangeline Holland alerted me to the existence of a novel based on the life of Hester Bateman!  What’s [...]

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Rose Lerner, you KNOW I have a deadline

And lucky for you I do, otherwise you’d now be subjected to a lengthy diatribe all about how what I don’t need to be doing right now is reading and re-reading a new story featuring In for a Penny characters when I should be writing! Because trust me, I fritter away enough time re-reading In [...]

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Ten Things I’d Blog About If I Had Time

This is it.  Butt in chair, hands on keyboard, pedal to the metal.  No more blogging, and no more than 20 minutes per day reading other people’s blogs, until this book is finished and handed in. Topics hover around, though, stacking up like MD80′s over O’Hare, and I need to at least radio out and [...]

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Report from the Road

I am in a small town in southern Georgia.  The entourage and I have spent the week since RWA Nationals tooling around through Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, just to see what’s there.  We’ve toured historic houses, eaten local food, and loitered around gas stations just to listen to people’s accents. Touring nineteenth-century houses is [...]

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One Tourist’s Quest To Get Out Of Disney World Without Buying a Three-Dollar Bottle of Water

When the RWA national conference moved from Nashville to Orlando, my trip suddenly got a whole lot more expensive.  I’m bringing my family, and while they might have amused themselves quietly and economically in the Nashville environs during the days I’ll be busy with the conference, there was just no way to plunk them in [...]

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Adventures in Parenting: I Rent New Moon

Yesterday my elder daughter (code name Prima) and I watched New Moon.  Prima is a persnickety reader, and the Twilight books are not actually to her taste.  Snarking over movie adaptations of those books, however, is very much to her taste, and after four-plus hours of taking the SAT, she was in the mood to [...]

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I Listen to Way Too Much Pop Music

Just finished writing a scene in which my mistress heroine’s protector is telling her, essentially, “We want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed.” Not sure that one’s going to make the final cut.  Or even the next cut.

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Wicked Becomes You 1, Cecilia 0

Okay, I broke down and took the book out of my desk.  I am resolved to read no more than one chapter per day, and only when it’s not practical to be writing. There’s still a decent chance it will lead to an unproductive, cheese-curl-eating funk.  But I can’t hide forever.  Sherry Thomas’s new book [...]

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