Is attending RWA or RT Worth the Cost? (Spoiler: YESSS)
Registration for RWA National opens next week (on Feb 2, according to the RWA website), and so now’s probably a really good time for me to blog about the ...
Category: writing talk
Writing Advice: What I Learned from Reading One-Star Reviews
There are some lessons as a writer that one learns over and over. One that keeps coming around again and again for me is this: What some people love most about ...
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Many of you know me as a writer of BDSM-themed fiction. In fact my very first published story was called “Telepaths Don’t Need Safewords.” To ...
Xan West: Kinkster scribe of viscerally thinky erotica
I’m very pleased to host Xan West, whose new book SHOW YOURSELF TO ME is this season’s “must read” BDSM book. I’ve known Xan for y...
Love Between the Covers: romance writers documentary film
Last night I attended a special screening of LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS, a fantastic documentary by filmmaker Laurie Kahn about romances and the women who write th...
Hormones, Caffeine, or Writing a Romance novel?
Right now my nerves are on fire, I’m jittery as hell, and yet I’m also so exhausted I can barely move. I might be about to cry, or scream, or maybe ...
Top Ten Ways To NOT End a Series: An #RWA15 Workshop
Just came from the panel/class on “How Not to End a [Romance] Series” at RWA 2015 and I am rushing up to my room to see if I can crank out a blog po...
Magic U characters took the Myers Briggs test: the results were startlingly accurate
So, Spellbinding launched yesterday. This is a collection of short stories in the Magic University universe–seven of them by me and ten by other writers p...
Web Serial Toolbox: everything you need to start a fiction serial
This is the handout for my Web Serial Toolbox workshop, which I’m teaching today at Readercon at 6pm. I’m posting it here as a reference document fo...
Digital Branding for Authors at BEA15
One of the cool things about BookExpo America is that there are seminars aimed at authors, publishers, and so on. For the past few years there has been a whole ...