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 ...
Category: writing talk
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 ...
RT Award Recap: Cecilia Tan Pioneer & Career Achievement Award speeches
I’m sitting here in bed on the last night of RT Booklovers, with my knee up on pillows with an ice pack. Ouch. You see, at Heather Graham’s Vampire ...
More from RT Booklovers: Day 2! GLBT "Post-Gay"? Marketing Series, and Bonus Content
Here are my recaps of a few more panels: Post-Gay, Marketing Series, and Bonus/Free Content. POST-GAY: When Characters Just Happen to be Gay This was a powerhou...
Reporting from RT Booklovers! Wattpad, writing series, and more
It has been a fabulous, busy first 24 hours at RT. I arrived last night too late to pick up my badge, but that was all right. Once I retrieved my box of giveawa...
Consent is Sexy
Today I guestblogged over at the site of Jana Richards as part of my blog tour for The Incubus and the Angel. My topic is “Consent it Sexy.” “...
Well that's fascinating…!
You know how Amazon pages always give you a strip of suggestions that says “Customers Who Bought {this thing} also bought:” ? Here’s the strip...