Reading, in general.
Yay! I finally got it! (Actually, my sister did, but it’s in my house and that’s what counts.) So, my sister read it first (while I was toiling away in the kitchen *sob*) and when she was finished she brought it out to the living room and tossed it onto the sofa, made a huffing […]
I was dying for a good thriller/horror read, but not an overly depressing one — but I was having some trouble getting into Koontz’s ODD THOMAS (I think because of the first person narrator, which doesn’t always bother me, and I really like the voice, but for some reason just wasn’t dragging me in) so […]
So, between the reviews at DearAuthor.com and Rosario’s Reading Journal, along with comments I’ve read at SBTB and other places, I’ve been dying to pick up the Archangel series by Sharon Shinn. Except I’m too weenie. There are some things I don’t let myself read when I’m writing. J.D. Robb is one; her voice is […]
Good book. Missy so happy. I don’t know what it is about Neil Gaiman. The way he ties everything together, just so? The writing itself, which is kind of like sliding down melting ice cream? The lime? Dunno. I do know that every time I close one of his books, I wish I was a […]
This ties in to the current ATBF, I guess, but it’s not about violence or ratings. I’ve been thinking about this the past couple of days, sparked partially by the discussion I referenced on Tara Marie’s blog about boundaries and genre, Jordan Summers’s “sick of sex” post at RTB, and a couple of books that […]
Which is good, because it’s hard to write a sex scene without it. It’s all swollen on the back, which will likely turn into a nasty-ass bruise, but I can type comfortably. I just can’t, like, press on it (which I did, just to see, and because I’m an idiot). Reading:
(Okay, not really.) Somehow or another, my latest hero is turning into a cowboy. A guy from the Old West, turned Guardian. That, I didn’t expect. And onto more research now. Perhaps a reacquaintance with my ol’ friends Louis L’amour and Max Brand and Zane Grey, just for flavor. In other news, I was running […]
(Okay, not really.) Somehow or another, my latest hero is turning into a cowboy. A guy from the Old West, turned Guardian. That, I didn’t expect. And onto more research now. Perhaps a reacquaintance with my ol’ friends Louis L’amour and Max Brand and Zane Grey, just for flavor. In other news, I was running […]
Tara Marie has an interesting post regarding a discussion that has been circulating on a few sites — about taking risks in the genre. I’m kind of over there, writing way too much…because it’s a lot more interesting than Starbucks.
Rosario just wrote a review of the HOT SPELL anthology (coming in mass market in November, if you don’t want to splurge on a trade /end shameless promo). As with most anthologies, the reviews are mixed, but she did really like Falling for Anthony — woot! As I said above, this one was really, really […]
…of questions like this. How is a blood slurping guy (vampire) sexy? … Just wondering what the appeal is? Grr. You don’t like it? Fine. It seems to me that questions like that are not borne out of genuine curiosity, but a need to display disgust. Or to garner attention. They are the second cousin […]
…of questions like this. How is a blood slurping guy (vampire) sexy? … Just wondering what the appeal is? Grr. You don’t like it? Fine. It seems to me that questions like that are not borne out of genuine curiosity, but a need to display disgust. Or to garner attention. They are the second cousin […]
**originally posted here** First, there’s an excellent ATBF column that confronts issues of racism in publishing, marketing, and the reading of romance over at AAR. Second, Candy of Smart Bitches has a rant In Defense of Girly Men over at SBTB that is generating a lot of comments I haven’t had time to read through […]
**originally posted here** I couldn’t help but giggle as I listened to a group of students in the lab argue over the homoerotic nature of TOP GUN (if you don’t know about this, scroll down to see remarks when you follow this link — more is in the sidebar). But then I started thinking about […]
…idiot that ever had a double standard. Last night, Ugly_Hubby and I were watching The Silence of the Lambs on late, late night TV (a late night TV surprisingly and sadly free of 1-900-HOTGRRL commercials, which crack me up, but plenty of weight-loss commercials, and I wonder if those commercials aired despite or because of […]