It’s often said that writers are either pantsers (often rendered inaccurately as pansters, probably because it’s easier to pronounce) or plotters. Pantsers as in “write by the seat of your pants.” They make it up as they go along and don’t know where they’re going until they get there.
I think there are writers who do [...]

As we all know, there are some crazies on teh interwebs. We’ve all heard about them, read them, or even experienced them. If you’re an author, you might also get the bonus of getting some crazy emails. Fan letters, hate letters, the works.
Every so often, an author will mention a “speshul” email on twitter. [...]

I’ve been thinking about the sudden surge to self-publishing and vanity publishing and the interest I’ve recently seen in various blogs and other places.
Being a suspicious soul, I started to think about why this should be. Not all improvements come because the time has come and it’s right for them. Sometimes the situation is carefully [...]

So actually, I really wanted to title this “can’t we all just be average?” But honestly – would that catch your attention? Would you care about a post like that? And who knows. Maybe I feel like stirring the pot. (Not really, but since when have I not been stubborn? Never. That’s when.)

Our good friend C-Squared blogged about this – and if you follow me on twitter, you’ll know I whined about it a lot – 2009 was not a good year for me. For a variety of reasons. Whatever. I haven’t/hadn’t been able to read as much. I put off books I was looking forward to, [...]

Just so you know, I’m writing this as a reader and a writer. Both halves, stuck together to make a whole. Not that that happens very often. It’s hard to keep the two parts separate when you read so much, hard to not let what you read bleed into what you write. I try to [...]

So… I posted it in the comments – but since I wasn’t clear… the winner of a brand new, shiny copy of Coming Undone is
KARA
Please send me your info – theduckeez@goodbadandunread.com
I’ll draw another winner if you don’t contact me in 48 hours. And for future reference – my contests, winners will be announced in the [...]

I’ve been incognito of late.  I haven’t talked to you good folks in a while so I crawled out of my hole to have a whine and whinge, and to see how many of you are in the same situation. It’s the start of a new year – a year I know will have a [...]

So, the title may be misleading… but this is a contest post. It’s also a rant, because… well what’s an entry from your good friend Limecello without some ranting, right?

We’ve all been there, haven’t we?  We want to read. We need to read.  But nothing catches our attention.  We start one book and put it aside and then start a different book, thinking maybe a genre change might help, and put it aside.  Repeat as necessary until there is a stack of books, each [...]

Well, this is a very vague and open topic… but of course I’m going to limit it to the romance community. I think we all know that what you do online can come back to haunt you- right or wrong.
Authors sometimes go a little… er, crazy? Over reviews. There are numerous examples. Authors have created [...]

This year I changed my mind about one thing. I’d always thought it was necessary for a beginning writer to be conventional, to go with what works, and leave the book of their heart for another time. Now I’m not so sure.
And it’s a couple of my books that have given me this change of [...]

I know I probably come across as a Debbie Downer. Or, actually, I don’t know. Sybil tells me (every so often, that I’m being too much of a Mary Sue and that I’m butt-kissing. And then she tells me I can’t have X book because the author just died and I probably will hate it [...]

Writing is the only art form I know of where some people believe that it’s not the act of creating that makes one a writer, but the act of selling it.
I was a hobbyist writer for a long time. It was my recreation, my relaxation, but I worked very hard at it, and did my [...]

Most people will know by now that Harlequin has announced a vanity publishing line, Harlequin Horizons. It’s caused a massive blow-up on the Internet. Ann Aguirre, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, Absolute Write, Maya Reynolds and Dear Author are only a few places where you can see discussions about the new venture.
What strikes me is the [...]