There are days when so much shit is thrown around the internets that I start to forget why I love it so much. Internet stalkers, gamers making punching bags out of women they disagree with, pretty much any YouTube or news site comment thread… There’s a lot of vile crap, and sometimes it seems to […]
A few weeks ago, I asked for test readers who hadn’t read any of the Iron Seas books to read “Mina Wentworth and the Invisible City” and “Tethered,” then report back (here is the response form that I set up) on whether they stood alone or not. To date, I’ve received responses from about half […]
Grammar Girl has a fine post about it here, but here is the bit I see confused over and over and over and OVER whenever I see an online critique: A lot of people think all sentences that contain a form of the verb “to be” are in passive voice, but that isn’t true. For […]
I hope everyone is having a fabulous 4th of July, regardless of whether it ends in fireworks or not. Thanks to the power of random.org, I have nine winners’ names (followed by the time/date stamp for easier identification) for the Heart of Steel German editions, and The Iron Duke UK editions. Thank you so much […]
We were talking about romantic suspense after I saw you pick up Laura Griffin’s TWISTED, and I mentioned this trilogy, and then couldn’t for the life of me remember Leslie’s last name, and I kept thinking “Leslie Kelly” but I knew that wasn’t quite right … because, haha, that’s her OTHER name. And then I […]
CONTEST CLOSED. This contest is over, but I am giving away copies of The Iron Duke UK Edition and the Heart of Steel German edition until tomorrow night. Thank you so much to everyone who entered! Winners’ Names 6 – Holly 11 – KellyM 73 – Mel S 82 – Ileana A. 62 – Christina […]
Thank you so much to everyone who entered! Don’t forget to check back often; I’ll be giving away copies of books with every Guardian retrospective post, plus I have giveaways for the Iron Seas coming up soon, too. By the power of random.org, I have the names of two winners: Marion Heather Mitchell Marion and […]
This contest is closed. Winners announced here. I have too many books, and I just realized that I’m about to get another couple of boxes over the next month or two. So, yay? I know everyone prefers to have actual real content rather than constant giveaways or contests, but my shelves are full and I […]
I’ve had quite a few readers ask me about whether Riveted would be available on ebook the same day as print, because it wasn’t available for pre-order alongside the print version. I think it was just a delay in the catalog updates — the ebook link is available now, although at Amazon the ebook version […]
Re-Reading “Falling for Anthony” Okay, well — the tl;dr version of what follows is: It’s not as bad as I feared and not as awesome as I would like. This isn’t going to be a review with a plot summary or anything. I’m going to assume that everyone has read this, because otherwise a lot […]
Remember to use this… Because a few years later a kid might ask you to take her to a movie, and this will be stuck in your head FOREVER. http://youtu.be/_aELcXyjpts Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
And, since this is apparently going to be “Falling for Anthony” week on the blog, I’ll give away two copies of the book. “Falling for Anthony” In Regency England, a desperate lady is Falling for Anthony when a childhood friend comes back from the dead to protect her brother from an unnatural evil. Read an […]
Writing “Falling for Anthony” Falling for Anthony’s place in the Guardian series This was the first story published in the Guardian series, but not the first story I began writing. That was Demon Angel (and I’ll go into that book’s history more on its post), which is Hugh and Lilith’s romance. I had several chapters […]
Sorry for the lack of posts this week. My daughter had a day camp at a college across the river, and rather than waste all my time driving back and forth, I stayed at the library and worked (but didn’t have access to the college network, alas.) But I did start writing the retrospective post […]
