Are you familiar with Jim’s Journal, the late 80s comic strip by Scott Dikkers, co-founder of The Onion? Jim reacts—or really, doesn’t react—to everything in his life with an understated, unemotional style, as in the comic where he observes, “I … Continue reading
Ruthie Knox and I are going back to school. We are going to teach ourselves to write better romance beginnings by reading the books that we admire the most. You can read more about this on her blog, where she … Continue reading
As I promised in my post, Romance Evangelism, I presented my book club with five choices of romance books to read at our meeting two months from now. The choices were, in order, The Unsung Hero, by Suzanne Brockmann (Troubleshooter … Continue reading
Birdwatchers have a term, GIS, which is borrowed from the military and is short for General Impression and Shape. If you ID a bird based on GIS, you’re not focusing so much on particular field marks–wing stripes or a circle … Continue reading
I want to convince my book club to read a romance novel. My book club–all women–was founded by engineers. Even the most right-brained of us has spent at least some time in a left-brained field–one is a former geologist, one … Continue reading
I’m listening to the audiobook Reckless Pleasures, a Harlequin Blaze “Pleasure Seekers” book by Tori Carrington (narrated by Lauren Fortgang). I’m fascinated by Tori Carrington for (at least) two reasons. The first is that Tori Carrington is a husband-wife writing … Continue reading