Southern Fried Chicas Just Another Damn Group Blog Amie who shall always be cece in my mind Raine Denise McDonald Michelle Miles Go visit… I still don’t get the myspace thing…

…as I was putting the label on the ebuzz stuff I came across this post. Which greatly amused me since jane is a fan of hers. hee shows what I know

Chick lit is a genre with a formulaic plot that most of us can see coming from 300 pages away: pretty, flawed girl makes her way around the big city in fabulous Jimmy Choos, regularly pausing between frappuccinos to fret about her diet, shop, dodge her rant-prone boss, sip mimosas with her classy and complicated [...]

As readers, if a book sucks who do you think is responsible? Is it the author? Because the book first, last and always is their creation… Is it the editor? Because they bought it (at least with ebooks right?) and their job is to prepare the book for publication. Is it the reader? Because we [...]

Jayne interviews Berkley Editor Cindy Hwang No not that jayne as in dear author… jayne as in Jayne Ann Krentz cool… my favorite part is this answer: Cindy: Never fear, historical and contemporary romances are alive and well! Not everyone loves paranormal, of course, and in this age of diversity, I think it’s more important [...]

From Dear Author: The week of October 2nd through October 8th we will be featuring an interview and several reviews of an author that the Two Ja(y)nes and Janine love. Today marks the first of a three part series on Romance Publishers Promises to Romance Readers. Today’s articles addresses Advertising (the delivery of the promise), [...]

Am I the only one who reads Samhain or the only one who reads the AAR Reader to Reader mb? rec people! rec!

Le sigh… Why? Do I keep reading her?

Smelly Socks Just a note… I am not the blog police. And just because I think you are behaving like a dumbass and doing something amazingly stupid doesn’t make it my place to ‘out’ anyone. I have tons of respect for HelenKay Dimon. Like her or hate her, read her or not – she is [...]

The Berkley Babes

Booklist: Core Collection: Erotic Romance, by John Charles and Shelley Mosley from the ever fab Kate Duffy: In 2006 Kensington launched Aphrodisia, an erotic fiction line. Although it can be difficult to distinguish between erotic romances and erotica, Duffy has a simple yet effective way of separating the two kinds of books. “While there is [...]

What is a sock? 1. Best to have your ‘real’ blog or website not be similar to your ‘fake’ blog or website. 2. Review, Review and then Review again your post before you hit post. Words ‘you’ use often shouldn’t be used on the ‘newyou’ blog. 3. Decide who the ‘newyou’ is and stick to [...]

read it great post… shall tie into some other posts later…

You can’t be a true fan unless you love everything the author writes, thinks, says or shits. That was paraphrased from Ventrue’s comment… I am sure it is hardly a secret I am a fangirl of wards. And where I do agree with Dylan on many points, I disagree on some as well. The main [...]

They’re back… Or is this a new writer?/reader looking to put all message boards, authors and blogger back in their place? I am all for making fun of rabid fangirls and stupid behavior but setting yourself up as the net police pretty much makes you look stupider than the ones you are trying to make [...]