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9 lasts:last cigarette: neverlast beverage: mmm, waterlast kiss: last night. 🙁last movie seen: The Phantom of the Opera (DVD) Something New (theatre)last phone call: my editorlast cd played: CD? What’s that? I have an iPodlast bubble bath: Decemberlast time you … Continue reading →

Sylvia Day’s recent position piece on the possibility of an “Erotic Romance” category in the RITA’s, as well as yet another newbie’s query about what the heck “Long Contemporary” means made me start looking at the realm of RWA contest … Continue reading →

Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been wont to occasionally mention this writer named Scott Westerfeld. (Wow, laid out like that, I look quite the obsessive, don’t I?) Anyway, for those of you who haven’t been paying attention, … Continue reading →

Inspired by the comments thread on my recent rejection post, my agent, Deidre Knight, has written a blog post on the concept of exclusive submissions. Go read it. She is, as usual, utterly brilliant, and completely correct.

Rant warning. I’m going to say something, and if you’re an aspiring writer, you’re going to ignore me. I know this. I know this because you’ve heard it before, and you didn’t listen then. I know this because I have … Continue reading →

Today’s post is at Romancing the Blog. Go read it. It’s not as dirty as my last one, but still fun. In other news, Lancelot the Laptop and I had a tearful, intimate reunion on Friday night. Very intense. I … Continue reading →

Lancelot the Laptop update: So, I called yesterday. (I’d called on Monday, and they told me they were still trying to figure out what was wrong, but since I hadn’t heard a word, I thought I’d try again.) At first … Continue reading →

I received my first fiction rejection on May 6, 2003. (We shall not discuss romantic rejections.) It was for a partial that had been requested by an editor from a query letter and sent seven months before. Unlike college admittance … Continue reading →

Lancelot the Laptop Progress Report: No news doesn’t seem to be good news. Has Yousef the Apple Genius Abandoned us? Methinks that if it’s not something they’ve figured out by now, it’s probably terminal. In other news, Sailor Boy has … Continue reading →

Lancelot the Laptop Report: Still doing diagnostics. No longer thinking it’s the logic board. Prognosis shaky… So, since I’m using Sailor Boy’s dinosaur, Red the Dell Laptop, and it doesn’t have a wireless card, I haven’t had online access at … Continue reading →