January 18, 2013
It is with a heavy (but kinda of lighter workload) heart that I announce I will be retiring The Season website and blog at the end of this month. As you know, I’m a writer and the task of managing the site and the blog is just too much. I NEED to be getting out [...]
January 15, 2013
I get a lot of books free–at least to read. But I don’t read 95% of the books that I do receive, whether it’s a digital book or a print. Actually, I don’t read 99.9% of the print books I receive. It got me thinking to the last book I actually bought for myself to [...]
November 9, 2012
Last night, Twitter was abuzz with news that all the buy buttons had disappeared–poof gone–from the kindle version of all the Big 6 New York publishers (Macmillian, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group, Random House and Hachette). Fifty (50) of the top 100 kindle books on Amazon could not be purchased. Yeah, that’s a real [...]
August 27, 2012
Wow! Wow! It’s been one of those weekends when you discover some not so surprising yet still are shocked and saddened about some of the things that go on in this business of publishing. On August 26, New York Times posted this article, The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy which discusses how Todd Rutherford started [...]
August 21, 2012
I’m not sure how many of you are aware, but in the past month Penguin Group (InterMix) released a serialized story, BECAUSE YOU ARE MINE written by Beth Kery. In the past, Beth has written for Ellora’s Cave and I believe currently still writes for Harlequin also. Beth’s last full-length release was WICKED BURN–which I [...]
July 31, 2012
Isn’t this what we think of when we think of erotic romance covers? A couple in a hot embrace with plenty of skin showing? Then FIFTY SHADES OF GREY came along and now we’re seeing more of this: What do you think of the new covers? Would rather your romance cover be less sexy and [...]
July 30, 2012
I’m not trying to be funny–okay maybe just a bit–but my good gosh (modified that), I’ve been reading a lot of YA and New Adult romances lately and with some of them, I’m hard pressed not to want to down an entire bottle of sleeping pills and just end it all. Right, that’s a complete [...]
July 28, 2012
Great writing and great storytelling makes a great book. Of course, all of this is subjective but when the majority of readers agree on this, an author is really really happy. But many books don’t get this dual stamp of approval from the masses. So when a book doesn’t fall into this category for you, [...]
July 17, 2012
by Beverley Yes, indeed, what is this thing we call the novella? Well per RWA (Romance Writers of America) a novella is fictional work between 20,000 – 40,000 words. To put that into print perspective that would be 67 – 135 pages. For those who read Harlequin’s shorter category novels like Presents, Romance or Desire, [...]
July 5, 2012
When Kimberly Killion of www.HotDamnDesigns.com sent me the cover for TWICE THE TEMPTATION, the first book in my new series The Temptresses, I nearly swooned in delight. And now that I have a cover, I’m very excited to share it with you–although I did share it on Facebook with my friends earlier this week. But [...]
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