~ By Debra Elise Finding the right critique partner (cp) can be an odyssey, but sometimes you get lucky. For me I’m in the second group. As a newbie writer a few years ago, I was indeed lucky when it came to connecting with a few key people already established in the business. I met the inspiring Rebecca […]
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~ By Debra Elise Finding the right critique partner (cp) can be an odyssey, but sometimes you get lucky. For me I’m in the second group. As a newbie writer a few years ago, I was indeed lucky when it came to connecting with a few key people already established in the business. I met the
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~ Interview by Melina Kantor * This post is part of Erica Manfred’s Chick Lit Plus Blog Tour. Until recently, I thought I’d heard (or even experienced) some of the worst JDate horror stories imaginable. Or at least some of the strangest. Trust me. My friends and I could write books about our online dating
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~ By Elle Filz By all accounts, Parker Welles is living a charmed life. A trust fund kid, she’s the author of a wildly-successful childrens book series – the profits of which are donated to charity. She’s also got an adorable son, good friends, and a nice little life in small-town Rhode Island. And one
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~ By Toni Linenberger I bought my first Christie Craig book, Don’t Mess with Texas, because of TxDOT (that’s the Texas Department of Transportation for the uninitiated). It seems they had taken offense to her use of the catch phrase “Don’t Mess with Texas” as the title of a romance novel. GASP! Rick Perry on
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~ By Elle Filz By most accounts, Solange Drake is a normal fifteen year old girl. She’s got loving parents, seven older brothers, and a best friend who accepts her for who she is. A vampire. Well, she will be once she hits sixteen. And since Solange is the first vampire daughter to have actually
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~ By Elle Filz Junior editor Jane Taylor has a problem. Well, that’s not entirely true, she has a lot of problems. Jane, like many women of a certain age, is baby-obsessed. She wants a little bundle of joy to carry around and solidify her relationship with her live-in boyfriend, Trevor. So, convinced is she
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~ By Robina Grant Thank you for inviting me to share a wonderful read. The novel, The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, touched me in so many ways. Not a romance, not quite YA, not really magical realism but with elements of all three. It was a glimpse into the foster care system and
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~ By Toni Linenberger My friend Frank Calcagno wrote a book. Actually he wrote three, but who’s counting? (Apparently he’s up to four, darn him.) The fact he wrote them while working full-time, raising a family, and generally being an all-around nice guy means we will try not to hate him. Did I mention his
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~ By Elle Filz Lately, I’m noticing an exciting trend in women’s fiction: historical tales framed within the context of a second, contemporary story. There’s Juliet by Anne Fortier, of course, and this fantastic novel about a Dutch painter living in England around 1500 that I would love to read again, if only I remembered
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~ By Elle Filz The year: 1855. The place: Walpole, New Hampshire. The woman: Louisa May Alcott, the author of the classic, Little Women. When Louisa’s father, Bronson, experiences yet another epic business failure, the family is compelled to accept the charity of a generous relative and relocates to Walpole. Almost immediately, Louisa starts plotting
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~ By Deborah Blake I love romantic comedy. Movies, books, you name it; if there is romance and humor, I’m there. Unfortunately, comedy and romance are a tough combination, and not everyone does it well. I have many paranormal romance authors I like, but up until recently, there were only three romantic comedy authors on
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