Cooking up a book
A snowy Saturday. (Surprise! That’s five in a row if anyone is counting.) The installers came to put in the new window. I cooked. Because, well, that seems to be what I do these days. I cook to...
View ArticleDefinitions of romance and women’s fiction
The second part of the interview at WRITER UNBOXED is up, if you’re interested. I’m excerpting this paragraph not because I am so brilliant but because I’d like to talk more about the definition of...
View ArticleDragon Lovers Anthology
"Fur, feathers, farts and scales! What a marvelous presentation of romantical dragons, showing off for the ladies of their choice, happenstance or traditional. A very good collection for all hungry...
View ArticleStill. Not. Done
I keep thinking I must be almost done with this book, but like some funhouse tunnel, it suddenly stretches out again. Eating weird things. Yesterday, sesame crackers were the food of choice. And...
View Articlemile marker 459
This morning at 9:30, I finally made it to the end of the draft. It is a whole book. 459 pages this moment, though that will change a bit. Because of the way I write, polishing and easing and...
View ArticleNow the terror sets in
Now the terror sets in. Rewriting. Time to move from artist mind to critical mind. It always stuns me slightly, to reach the end, as if each book is a somehow eternal project. Here I am, the...
View ArticleInto the great wide open….
Elena has packed her bags and headed out into the world. I’m left here in my office, packing up the mess she left behind. Weird that all those months and months of scribbling and mapping and...
View ArticleA Moveable Feast, part 2
I carried A Moveable Feast with me on the long flight to Philly this weekend. To be quite honest, I carried it more out of a sense of duty, that I should get it read for another project that has been...
View ArticleDigging through the basket of scene and detail
I am not a natural synopsis writer. That’s just not how my process works–laying out the bones and then working from there to add muscle and flesh and clothing. It always seems to me that the girls...
View ArticleBarnes and Noble Book Club Today
Just a reminder that I’ll be chatting at the Barnes and Noble Romance Book Club today. The lovely cover of Madame Mirabou is prominently featured on the opening page. (I still want to go live in that...
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