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Nov.11.2009
What does one do when one has a truly revolutionary idea?
Blog? here? Maybe. It's better than trusting some Washington intern not to bury it. I certainly don't have time to publish one of my snarky, politically satiric futuristic romances on the matter. So here goes.
President Obama promised not...
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Jul.30.2009
My first book, Forced Mate, was and still is a humorous, snarky take on every historical romance inspired by the Graeco-Roman myth of Persephone abducted from the surface of the earth by Dis, dark god of the Underworld... except my dark god was a self-styled 'god' and a prince from a far away ...
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May.20.2009
My grandmother on the distaff side used to say, "If you've nothing nice to say, don't say anything..." Switch "nice" for "helpful" and you have my current philosophy.
I've recently been invited to become a contributing member of the teaching blog "1st Turning...
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May.13.2009
INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIAL
Just because the high handed hero of FORCED MATE decreed that his sharp-tongued, scandalous, fashionista sister (the one who made a film of herself having sex with an unsuitable stranger) should be married did not mean that the Royal shotgun wedding would go off without...
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May.04.2009
On the first Tuesday of most months, I host an internet talk show where we "blog aloud" about matters close to the hearts of Romance authors whom I like.
Tomorrow, May 5th, from 10 am Eastern Time until 12 noon, I shall be joined by Joy Nash and Kellyann Zuzulo
Since it's May, which is...
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May.04.2009
Who knew...?
Today I am procrastinating. Never mind what I ought to be doing. I came here. I poked around, and discovered that I can list up to five of my favorite charities, and they will receive publicity here on Red Room --on my page, I assume-- and also a donation from any earnings my page here...
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Jan.03.2009
The Myth Made Me Do It
There's nothing new under the sun. What goes around comes around. If you live long enough, you can be original. Every story ever told has already been told (in other words, there are only two, or twenty, or thirty-six plots –depending on which plotters' manual you prefer--...
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Oct.11.2008
10. I'm told that it's not a bodice ripper, but it sounds like one.
9. PS. I like bodice rippers.
8. It's going to take about eight hours to read.
7. The hero is an alpha male. I don't like books that give male chauvinist pigs a happy ending.
6. I don't identify with beautiful, spirited, young...
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Oct.11.2008
10. Insufficient Mating Material are not words I feel comfortable waving about in front of gentlemen.
9. If it's about a man with a small penis, I don't want to read that... I see enough of that at home/at the office/on TV.
8. It's going to take about eight hours to read
7b. I find it totally...
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Oct.11.2008
10. It's long. It has 340 pages, and most new Chapters do not begin on a fresh page.
9. It has a Prologue and an Epilogue. That's two beginnings, and two endings!
8. It's going to take about eight hours to read
7b. Disrespectful words such as tallywacker and joystick are used...
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About Rowena
I'm unreliably psychic --by which I mean that I occasionally know things that no one expects me to know. I have exceptionally good hearing, an eye for detail, and a near-photographic memory. And, I've lurked and observed from some of the world's most...
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Eyes On Design, Detroit Institute of Opthalmology, http://www.eyeson.org...