Guest Post: Romance at Random

I’m at the Romance at Random blog today, talking about how a person who grows up without reading romance novels can wind up writing them. There may be some mention of Shakespeare.

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Watch Me Make This About Romance: Jim Joyce’s Blown Call

A week ago today, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga pitched a perfect game.  For the non-baseball fans among us, a perfect game is when the pitcher not only doesn’t give up any hits, but doesn’t walk or bean anybody either.  It’s exceedingly difficult, and, as you may imagine, exceedingly rare.  Only 20 have been recorded [...]

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In Praise of Predictability

Among my non-romance-reading family, I have the highest hopes for my sister-in-law.  She’s a sharp, poised, thoroughly modern woman who I believe might actually be able to get through my book without going, “Oh, my God, there’s sex in here!  And my sister-in-law wrote it!” And indeed, she’s been the first in my family, since [...]

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