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
Just…be NICE!
Monday Musing: Nothing as humiliating as a new swimsuit search.
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
Guest blog: Open Your Mind Before Your Mouth
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
50 Shades of Green…
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
TSTL (the author, not the heroine).
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
What a "shocking" Valentine’s day.
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
RWA strikes again. GLBT writers need not apply.
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
Politics, schmolitics.
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!
Oh, darn. I wasn’t Raptured…again.
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
Go fly your own damn kite.
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
Publishing, Pirate Prattle, and Pay
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
What can you say?
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
Open Letter to NY Publishers
(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
Harlequin Hooey
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
Fight Pirates – Earn Booty! (No, not THAT kind of booty!)
(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