Bitchin' Blog Posts
February 13 | Monday | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 14, at 9:00am Eastern Time, Tools of Change in Publishing begins. I'm there along with a few thousand other people - and I'm really looking forward to the keynotes, including one by LeVar Burton. Burton's keynote begins at about 9:05 (and really, these things are never exactly on…
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Event Date: February 29, 2012
Event Time: 9:00 pm ET - 10:30 pm ET
The Book Club Chat will be February 29th at 9pm ET/8pm CT, and Beverly Jenkins will be joining us at 10pm ET to answer questions.
If you've never chatted with her, she's hilarious, and this will be a lively and fun book club chat.
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February 12 | Sunday | 4 Comments
Time for this week's Top Ten, which has caused me to grin like a grinning fool. Thanks to everyone who purchased EIKAL, and thanks to Sourcebooks for putting it on sale. Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell | Amazon | BN | Sony…
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Event Date: February 18, 2012
Event Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
I'll be at the February booksigning at Turn the Page Books in Boonsboro, MD. The signing will feature several authors, including Nora Roberts, Mary Burton, Mary Kay McComas , Donna Kauffman & Mary Alice Baumgardner & Michael Douglas Jones.
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February 10 | Friday | 16 Comments
First, if you have a Kindle with Special Offers, there's a special offer to redeem that gets you a coupon code. The code allows you to pick one book from a selection of 100 romances and buy it for $1. WOO! If you have a Kindle and would like to…
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February 10 | Friday | 14 Comments
CS Central Science has a feature about Heather Snow's first novel - a historical romance with a chemist heroine. The CENtral Science blog is connected to the chemistry journal, "Chemistry & Engineering News." Thanks to Karen for the link - she wrote, "I was surprised to see a romance novel…
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February 10 | Friday | 17 Comments
For those of you who missed it, this is the latest issue of Bloomberg Business about the Continental/United merger:
Failblog was alllll over it.
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February 09 | Thursday | 31 Comments
This entry is all thanks to Heather, who cleaned out a bookstore shelf and found a treasure trove of PROGNOSTICATION. To heck with groundhogs and the weather and what's going to happen in publishing next. We need to know about the future, the weather of the distant future, the role…
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February 08 | Wednesday | 84 Comments
I think there's a missed opportunity in romance land, particulary in paranormal romance land, particularly in the lucrative gifting market. I'm talking about anniversary gifts. You know how there's a chart of what gifts are symbolic of each year of marriage, and people can get downright goofy adhering to the…
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February 07 | Tuesday | 46 Comments
This email comes from Rebekka: I don't know if you can help me, but I would really appreciate some recommendations of romances to read that address infertility. As you know, most books that even mention it barely do, and it's usually more a case of, "Oh! My dead husband was…
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