Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

I did thirteen series I still love last week, so I’m flipping it this week. (the cool header is the second one compliments of my friend, Melissa. Which one do you like better?) 1. Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton (let’s just get that one out of the way, since it’s the obvious) 2. [...]

If you were to ask me what one romance author on the planet least needed to have a heavy-duty viral marketing campaign launched for her, I’m pretty sure I’d have said Nora Roberts. I think most everyone would say Nora Roberts. I mean, this is the woman who has four shelves all to herself in [...]

Versus the ones I’ve given up on, which is a different Thursday Thirteen! Some of these series are “finished” or no longer being written, but I still enjoy re-reading them. (BTW, are you crazy jealous of the cool TT graphic my friend Melissa made for me or what? I have another one that I’ll use [...]

1. Expect your editor to accept a first draft of your work (or sometimes even the second or third.) Self editing is good. We love self editing. Self editing is good…you are getting sleepy, very very sleepy…you want to polish your manuscript… 2. Decrease your life expectancy by overusing exclamation points in your manuscript. What? [...]

1. Drop Dead Gorgeous by Linda Howard (yes, she’s still carrying it around, calling it “my book” and asking me to read from it). The rest are much more age appropriate

Get your mind out of the gutter, pervs!

I haven’t gotten any editing done today, which is a shame because I was really on top of my schedule this week. Here are thirteen things I’ve done instead of editing today.

I’m going to do another week of ARC reviews at the end of January (and yes, that will include giving away free stuff again because bribery is good) but I only have enough ARCs for four days. *sad sigh* I guess I’ll skip Thursday and just do a Thursday Thirteen. Oh woe is me. Okay, [...]

Thirteen things that sometimes irk me in books I’m reading

Taken in order from my list of books read in 2006 1. Don’t Look Now by Suzanne Enoch 2. Memory in Death by JD Robb 3. Tempting Danger by Eileen Wilks 4. Working for the Devil by Lilith Saintcrow 5. Lover Awakened by JR Ward 6. Dead Man Rising by Lilith Saintcrow 7. Secret Society [...]