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I want to state up front this is NOT a “review rant.” This is not a rant about reviewers or reviews. At all. This is a rant about authors (one particular one, in this case) behaving badly. It’s about something that makes me sit back and shake my damn head over how fracking STUPID a … Read More
So yesterday I had that most humiliating of experiences, one that ranks right up there with annual pap smears, prostate exams, and having a child under the age of four teach you how to use technology. Yes, I had to go shopping for a new bathing suit. When I went to put my nearly two-year-old … Read More
I’m blogging today over at the “When One Is Not Enough” menage authors blog. Topic? I’m taking on a pinhead ROMANCE AUTHOR who equated BDSM with “setting back the women’s movement.” (Oh no she did-uhnt!) Oh, yes she did, and I take her to task for it. http://menageromance.blogspot.com/2012/05/open-your-mind-before-your-mouth.html
While I’ve had a couple of people ask me if I’ve read “50 Shades of Grey,” I had an interesting question from a Facebook follower the other day. To the effect of whether or not I thought it was professional for an author to actively lobby for people not to read a book. I didn’t … Read More
Well, I had a truly TSTL (too stupid to live) moment last night. Let me back up by saying my left shoulder, which is the one that gives me the most problems normally, has been really screwed up since last month’s play party when I topped Sir. I felt it pop in a bad way … Read More
I know I have my Facebook followers’ attention after the short status update I posted earlier, so here’s the longer version. The plan Hubby and I had today was to go out to eat this evening, but early. We’ve sort of turned Tuesday night into our “date night,” and since he’s retired, we can go … Read More
No, this isn’t a dumbass move by the main RWA, it’s by one of their chapters, who are closing a contest to GLBT stories. A contest previously open to GLBT stories. That any national organization would not sanction one of their chapters for this kind of discrimination just goes to show how archaic and cliquish … Read More
I’m sick of politics. I’m disgusted by lies told by all sides of the aisle. I just want this latest election cycle to get over with so we can get back to talking about important stuff… Like KITTEHS!
Ya know, it boggles my mind that in today’s age, there are still people like Harold Camping who make their living by trying to scare the living crap out of people. It’s even more mind-boggling that there are people stupid gullible enough to not only believe him, but who uproot their families, sell all their stuff, and … Read More
I know that not everything I write is…mainstream. *cough* It’s not everyone’s cuppa. That’s fine, I get that. What I don’t get is when someone slams something I write not based on the writing or story or, say, something logical like editing or whatever, but because it’s not the way THEY do things. Huh? Um, … Read More
There is this myth going around the pirate sites that they think published writers are rich, so if they steal files from them, it’s not hurting them, it’s only hurting “fat cat publishers.” Well, here’s another myth about to go up in flames on the sacred cow barbecue. The majority of writers, even writers whose … Read More
I’ve wanted to write a post about the Haitian earthquake catastrophe, but really, what can you say? There are a lot of things I want to say, most of them involving epithets that would get this blog kicked over to the Blogger adult rating, about some of the asshats (I can say that, right?) who … Read More
(The article prompting this letter can be found here.) Okay, Simon and Schuster and Hachette, seriously, WTF? You are going to delay the release of ebooks for months after hardcover…why? “…Preserve your industry?” Seriously? Okay, let me explain some basic economics that apparently someone hasn’t taken the time to explain to you. Cheaper books (ebooks) … Read More
If you’ve been under a rock in romland for the past few days, you might not have heard about Harlequin’s boneheaded move to add what amounts to little more than a pay-to-get-published vanity press Harlequin Horizons to their line-up. This move not only got them slapped down almost immediately by the RWA, but by other … Read More
(Note: there is a contest behind all of this, you just have to wade through the rant to get to it! LOL) I hate pirates. Not the yargh matey, rape-pillage-plunder fellows. Those guys are okay. The pirates I despise with a passion are the ones who illegally post files for download. In other words, scurvy … Read More