I Will Be Keynote Speaker at 2015 BDSM Writers Con in NYC!
I’m so excited to announce I’ll be the keynote speaker at the next BDSM Writers Conference! AUGUST 20-23, 2015 in New York City! What’s BDSM W...
Category: writing talk
Review: Beyond the Pale Motel by Francesca Lia Block
This ended up being less of a review and more of an essay on why I feel this book is a brilliant piece of modern literature that may go under-appreciated by cri...
Slow Satisfaction Casting Call: who would play Karina or James?
Many people have asked me who I would cast in a dream movie version of the Struck by Lightning trilogy. When Slow Surrender first came out I had posted the foll...
Some thoughts on success (as a writer)
Some thoughts on success. If you want a concrete measure of how different this year was from every other year of my career, here’s one: This was the first...
Reviews: Reaching, Receiving, and Reacting to Them by @smartbitches at #RWA14
Reviews: Reaching, Receiving, and Reacting to Them Sarah Wendell, of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books I wish I could have stayed to the very end of Sarah WendellR...
From #RWA14 writeup of Paranormal Romance: Dead, Soft, or Rearing Up to Bite?
Paranormal Romance: Dead, Soft, or Rearing Up to Bite? With Kate Douglas, Rebecca Zanetti, and Cynthia Eden RWA 2014 Panel So one thing I think I’ve learn...
Nalini Singh's #RWA14 workshop on Writing Paranormal Romance
I hurried out of the room this morning to try to get to Nalini Singh’s workshop on Writing Paranormal Romance after hearing tales of how some other worksh...
Changes to the RITA Awards announced at #RWA14
At today’s general meeting of the RWA membership, taking place at the RWA national convention, changes were announced, revamping the rules for the RITA Aw...
Sylvia Day's #RWA14 Keynote: "Dream Big. Plan Smart."
Here I am at my first RWA national conference and the keynote speaker is a writer I feel passionately about: Sylvia Day. Turns out the more I know about her, th...
Interview with Charlotte Stein (about Summer Rain)
If you haven’t seen it yet, there’s a new book of romance novellas out called SUMMER RAIN. Masterminded by Audra North and edited by Sarah Frantz, t...