This RITA® Reader Challenge 2013 review was written by Eliza. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Historical Romance category. The summary: With her parents murdered and her inheritance stolen, all Penny Shoemaker has left is her job designing handcrafted shoes for A Lady’s Favor dress shop. But that’s not enough for her to support herself or her young brother. Her only chance to regain what is rightfully hers rests with a … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge: Wedded in Sin by Jade Lee →
Warning: Commentary contains more spoilers than usual that we didn’t bother to white-out. If this bothers you, read only at your own risk. Lydia Smith, in a particularly bright (snerk) moment, decides that The Thing To Do is to go to Shanghai to visit her fiancé, Maxwell. Without an escort. Or a chaperone of any sort. Or telling her snooky-wookums she’s coming so he can meet her at the harbor. And as a bonus, she … Continue reading White Tigress by Jade Lee →
A Dozen Rakes, Renegades and Rogues, Oh, My! ~ The First Collection~ Join New York Times, USA Today, and Award-Winning Historical Romance Authors and travel across time to the hills of Scotland, Regency England, the Caribbean, and Old West America. Devil’s Spawn by Mary Jo Putney Ten years ago, Dominick Chandler’s courtship of Roxanne Mayfield was destroyed by her poisonous father. Now Dominick is back and determined to reclaim the only woman he ever loved—no … Continue reading A Dozen Rakes, Renegades and Rogues, Oh, My! →
Greetings from the Spring Fling, the conference of the North Shore RWA outside Chicago. It’s about 50F outside so I don’t know that I will be flinging anything. I’m more likely to add a layer. I am speaking tomorrow about online marketing and what authors and aspiring authors need to know about online interaction and branding, but today, the conference starts with sessions on plot, character, and point of view. Plus there’s a dinner tonight with … Continue reading Chicago Spring Fling 2010 →
The new design for the Romance Writer’s Report, official publication of the RWA, is pretty freaking sweet. I’ve taken to calling the issues by the stock image used on the cover (which is usually overlaid with text from a female writer of romance literature, like Austen, or, in the case of this month’s issue, Bronte) so the following commentary is from the Fishnets Issue. There’s two articles of note that I wanted to give a … Continue reading Perusing the RWR →
From the “If I Had a Bodrillion Dollars and Free Healthcare” department comes my pondering of a “more better documentary” about romance – one that started at RT and kept going to RWA, The Romance Slam Jam, and some of the more awesome chapter conferences and reader events. Alas, my million has not rolled in so I’m left to dream. But this month’s letter from RWA President Sherry Lewis reveals her year as “The Face … Continue reading Better Faces for Romance For Your Documentary →
Barnes and Noble has a new video series on its web site about the cover art of books. This episode features Judy York, the illustrator behind a few bodrillion covers. Some of the behind-the-scenes footage I saw in Marianne Mancusi’s Cover Story a few months back, but the shots of the illustrator at work were, for a geek like me, fascinating. Michelle Styles, Jade Lee, and C.L. Wilson’s books get some screen time, as do, … Continue reading Cover Story on BN.Com →
Bitchery reader and aspiring writer Sarah (not me) writes in with a request: I am an aspiring writer, and am working on some of my first manuscripts after years of anime fanfiction and original fantasy shorts. Most of my readers have been saying I should get published, even if I’ve never taken one creative writing course, and am finally breaking down to maybe give it a try. Most of what I write currently is almost … Continue reading GSvSTA: Ninjas, baby! YEAH! →
The list is up, for the RITA and Golden Heart. I’ll be honest, and I’m not sure if this is a reflection of me, of something else, or just the way it played out this year but I have not been near or even in the same room as some of the books nominated for a RITA. I’ve never heard of some of them. But I am very pleased to see Elizabeth Hoyt, Anna Campbell … Continue reading RITA and GH Finalists Announced at RWA National →
We got tagged by Lynn to answer a meme. About books. And our personal opinions. Gosh this is going to be SO hard. Candy? Me? Talk about books we like? *sigh* We suppose we could do it. Total number of books I own: Sarah: This number has greatly dropped since I’m moving next week, and in a fit of cleaning fury I dumped more than half my romance paperbacks, and more than half my other … Continue reading Tag - we are SO it! →
Hey, remember my quick drive-by bitching about the accusation by Susie Bright that romances = formula, erotica = literary? Maili provided me with a link to her blog, where she goes into even greater detail on why this is so, peeving me even more in the process. Cutting and pasting commencing NOW! Because Romances are written so tightly to genre, and the predictability factor is so important to their buyers, they can’t overhaul their image … Continue reading Erotica = Literature, Romance = Formula. GOT THAT? →
