On Hiatus

16 July 2011

I am currently in Moving Hell. I’ll be offline for a bit until we get everything packed, moved, and sorted. In the meantime, I hope everyone reads lots of great books!

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RWA 2011: Pre-Conference Days

6 July 2011

I arrived in New York City on the Saturday before the conference started. My critique partner, Magdalen, and her husband, Ross, kindly collected me from JFK. We checked in at the hotel, and went for dinner at Junior’s. Junior’s is located across from the side entrance of the Marriott Marquis hotel, and became a daily [...]

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RWA 2011: The Jet Lagged Edition

4 July 2011

I got back from the RWA conference yesterday afternoon. I’m too jet lagged to make any kind of sense, so today’s post will brief. Its focus: The books I picked up in New York, and upcoming books now on my radar. I’ll schedule a longer post (or two) on what I did and who I [...]

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Lord Peter Wimsey Audio Plays

22 June 2011

Audio books aren’t my thing. I associate them missing a year of school due to illness. Forced to spend a lot of time in bed, and unable to read, I resorted to books on tape. It was my introduction to Agatha Christie’s mysteries, and Enid Blyton’s Famous Five. While the stories helped to pass the [...]

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Writing Contests, Make-Up, and Summer Reads

17 June 2011

It’s been over a month since my last blog post. Yikes! Lots of things have been happening, and most of them are good. We finally found a house we like and we’re moving in July. This is exciting, but it’ll mean returning from the RWA conference to Packing Hell. In writing news, I placed first [...]

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REVIEW: ‘Octavia’ (1977) by Jilly Cooper

12 May 2011

Genre: Romance Setting: London in the 1970s POV: 1st Person Sensuality: Warm Violence: No Format: Digital My Grade: B+ In my last post, I mentioned my delight at discovering Jilly Cooper’s old romances are now available digitally. She wrote six stand alone romance novels in the Seventies, as well as a book of romantic short stories. [...]

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Bonkbusters of Old

11 May 2011

In an act of spectacular fuckwittery, I managed to delete a half-written blog post earlier today. It was a ponderous navel-gaze at my writing process. Somehow, I pressed the wrong key and my post disappeared. Perhaps I was boring my computer. In totally unrelated news, I was ridiculously thrilled to discover Jilly Cooper’s old romances [...]

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Star Wars, Chihuahuas and Man Titty

8 May 2011

I saw Star Wars for the first time last night – the first of the original trilogy. It was so bad it was amusing. The first shock came with the discovery that Harrison Ford didn’t play Luke Skywalker. I was convinced Harrison played Luke. Instead, it was some acting-challenged dude called Mark Hamill. Carrie Fisher’s [...]

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