Of new computers and Windows 8

Image courtesy of imagerymajesticfreedigitalphotos.net Imagine my face in that picture. For the last three months. Because of my laptop. You see, it was old. Eight years old. Young to a human, dinosaur for a computer. It ran Windows 7 and we got along fine for two and a half years. I loved its massive hard drive, my desktop gadgets, the fact that...

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Obsession

From Sherrilyn's site It's been a long time since I got sucked into an author's voice, style, and universes to the point where I want to read every single thing the author has ever written So long I can't remember who it was. I discovered Sherrilyn Kenyon last month. I know, I know. I'm probably the last romance reader in the universe who'd never...

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Birthing a Character

Since I have a manuscript sitting at Harper Voyager that's the first in a series I figured it was time to get going on the third one. I've been ruminating on it for about five months now and not really getting anywhere. I knew a piece was missing, but it wouldn't show up. So last week I let my mind wander. I do that a lot and that's when I get my...

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In Which I Ruminate on Paranormals

http://sharetv.org/shows/angel I'm really, really, REALLY late to the paranormal romance bandwagon. REALLY late. As in I read my first one two weeks ago. There's a lot of talk in SFR circles about how we can become as popular as paranormals. It always comes down to the presence of the genre in other mediums, like TV. So it got me thinking. How...

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