You Romance Writers are Evil

Bad bad people! Bad influences! I was toiling away on my second draft of Corpse Blood and damned if I didn’t look down at the page and think, “Hey, wait a second. They’re going to have sex.” I hadn’t planned that at all. Well, I mean, I planned on going there eventually. But I wanted to do this whole semi-Scully-and-Mulder thing first. But then it just didn’t make sense. Something else did. It’s not my first sex scene. Not by far. But it was different than all the others. The others are pure heat... read more

Heads up, romance writers! ( Lexi , this means you.) Evil Editor 's having a romance special. Simply submit your query and about 250 words...or something like that. (I wasn't really paying attention because it didn't concern me ;-) ) Anyway, info's here . Mind you, this takes place in February, so you've got a month to get a query and 250 words prepared. Have just submitted my monthly post at my critique group - perhaps I'll see you there :-) Am currently working towards getting my Merrymaker...

19 Ways to End a Superhero's Romance This was inspired in part by the old song “Fifty Ways to Leave a Lover" by Paul Simon (although he didn't actually list fifty different ways in the lyrics of the song). For my purposes, the best I could do was Nineteen, but I imagine I'm missing a few! Let me know! Let us suppose that you have just been offered the chance to do a long run (at least two years, say?) as the regular writer on a monthly title featuring that great superhero, ...

Wednesday, 13 June 2007 Placebo word count: 27,726. Over 2000 words written in one session... which is good, seeing as Thursday night's TV will tie me up for two hours, so I may not be able to fit in writing time. Still, I'm proud to have done double my work tonight. Thursday, 14 June 2007 3 rejections. 1 request for partial. And a possible referral??? I'm not quite sure. Even though I've already queried GC, MR says I should query GC. Is that a referral? I don't know. They're not even from...

Title: The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes Author: Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart and Eileen Dreyer Genre: Paranormal Romantic Comedy (yes, I just made up a subgenre) Pages: 416 (Paperback) I first saw this book advertised and reviewed in Romantic Times Book Reviews and immediately thought, "Oh my God, I have to read this book--it's going to be freaking hilarious." Sure enough, I was very correct. The premise of this book was what first caught my eye: three sisters, all of them witches, who have...

Alright, might as well get started before other people snatch up my recs. It's good to be first ^_^v Everything I'm about to rec is complete, by the way. Title: We Are Not Okay by resonant_words (a.k.a. Tanuki-dono on ff.net) Genre: Drama/Suspense Rating: T/PG-13 Spoilers: Must be up-to-date with knowledge of Team Hebi members. Summary: Sakura tries to piece them all together. But it's hard to fight reality. [Sakura, Sai, Sasuke, etc.] Review: I'll be honest, it's not blatant NaruSaku...