Barbie turns fifty this year, and New Zealand fashion designer, Karen Walker was asked to design some outfits for Barbie's special celebration. To date around seventy designers have designed special outfits for Barbie's exotic shape. Karen Walker downsized some of her...
Paranormal romances often use a fated mates plotline where the hero and heroine take one look at each other and know they will spend their lives together. Some readers and reviewers consider the fated mates plot overdone. They say it’s a way for the author to cheat on...
I’ve heard readers comment about authors who write a variation of the same book over and over again. Each new release is a rewrite of the same story. I know I’ve stopped reading a couple of authors because I felt their stories were pretty much identical. Maybe the...
Last week Kaye Munro did a post about writing and author productivity. I’ve been thinking about this, and I want everyone to put on their reader hats while they read this post about author releases. It used to be that authors would write one book a year and sometimes...
Barbara Vey at Publishers Weekly has a recent post about authors, actors and the like called Does It Matter If They're Nice? while Samhain editor Tera Kleinfelter has a post about professionalism. We all know how to behave in public or online, or we should. Writing is...
I have a selection of interesting posts and info today. The first is a link to Holt Uncensored that talks about ten mistakes writers make. This post makes for interesting reading and serves as a good reminder of the basics. For those of you who like gadgets, Paperback...
Okay. I'm totally borrowing/stealing this topic from Nicola O. Nicola mentions in her post that penises in some paranormals are different from the norm. I've run across this phenomenon before. Most notable are Lora Leigh's Breed books where barbs and knots appear...
This is a bit of a story, so grab a coffee and get comfortable. Mr. Munro went to pick up Scotty from the kennels on Sunday. The kennel assistant came out with Scotty and a basket that didn't belong to her. Hubby said, "That's not Scotty's basket." But evidently...
I'm off on my mini-vacation today, but I've scheduled some posts, and I'm posing some questions for you all while I'm away. And don't forget that Emily Bryan is here on the 9th giving away her upcoming release. You don't want to miss that! A few years ago, I read an...
