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The confidential game - November 24th, 2008 4:21 PM
Link.The quote that catches my attention is this:It is disheartening, to see to confidential information being posted on a forum but that is the nature of the Internet. What I'd...
Royal British Porn - November 24th, 2008 1:45 PM
Okay, so Prince William's penis is currently being ogled at by folks everywhere, if only because the penis belongs to Prince William...What, you don't know that there are photos...
Time out - November 23rd, 2008 1:20 AM
I'm taking a short break from blogging and visiting blogs. It seems like the world has gone mad, especially if you follow a particular thread at Dear Author where it seems as if...
Is Josh Lanyon the new Clay Aiken of the MM genre? - November 20th, 2008 12:44 PM
The MM romance genre is a hotbed for wanks, no doubt due to the fact that it has its roots in the fanfiction scene, which we all should know by now is as much about the...
It costs so much just to die nowadays - November 19th, 2008 1:58 PM
I think the cost of a Chinese funeral has gone out of hand. When my late mother departed from this world, we spent RM30,000 for her funeral ceremony alone, which I...
Two things I'm wondering at the moment - November 16th, 2008 10:23 PM
Should I put a link to this blog on my website?The reason I didn't all this while is because I am not too fond of all that drama that inevitably happens when this blog becomes...
Wuthering Heights - November 15th, 2008 12:44 PM
To steel myself for the upcoming viewing of Twilight (it's mostly because I'm going with a daughter who loves the books - go figure - and because I have a morbid curiosity about...
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy - November 15th, 2008 12:10 PM
It's quite amusing how many different versions of Wuthering Heights I can find on YouTube.Here is the original by Kate Bush. At the peak of her career, it was said that she...
Like, really, so NOT gay. Honest. - November 14th, 2008 4:23 PM
Erotic subtlety - November 14th, 2008 12:12 PM
Wow, I'm on the roll today.Thinking about Elizabeth Hoyt's To Taste Temptation has me realizing that one thing I really miss when it comes to erotic romances today is subtlety....
The two reviews I still can't bring myself to write - November 14th, 2008 11:55 AM
Normally I find it easier to write great rave reviews than scathing ones - seriously, folks, so stop laughing - but there are two reviews that I can't write even now. They are...
The trauma fiction - November 14th, 2008 7:24 AM
Since deciding to take up reading and reviewing of self-published and small press books, I've discovered a whole new "genre" of sorts: books written by people who want to spread...
You should not be selling your book to people - November 12th, 2008 11:47 PM
You should not be selling your book to people if:You can barely string two coherent sentences together in English. Please try to remember that "their" and "there" should not be...
Joséphine de Beauharnais - November 11th, 2008 8:16 PM
I've been reading up on the life of Marie Josèphe Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie, more commonly known as Joséphine, the first Empress of France and the wife of Napoleon...
We don't have to take our clothes off - November 11th, 2008 3:59 PM
With all the recent spate of alarmist posts about how the pr0n is tainting romance and causing innocent romance readers to become hedonistic homosexual swinging anal sex lovers,...
Bingo? - November 10th, 2008 7:35 PM
I was reading the Ellora's Cave RomantiCon 2009 "what you can expect to get with your money" list when I came across this. A "farewell bingo party" hosted by some of the...
Recent not-so-rosy changes at Lulu - November 10th, 2008 1:06 PM
Lulu is one of the biggest "free" vanity publishers out there at the moment. It is free because it doesn't charge the authors money to play - the costs are transferred to the...
A Message from the Committee for Decency Among Romance Readers - November 7th, 2008 1:15 AM
Dear readers,I am sure we are all alarmed at the increasing amount of pornography showing up in romance novels. Yes, pornography. Sinful onanistic material that will decay our...
MM stuff - November 5th, 2008 10:08 AM
Interesting thread here. Sarah F had scooped me, by the way. Real life events prevented me from sitting down and writing reviews and such these last few days, so she said what I...
Sarah Palin's favorite song - November 1st, 2008 2:23 PM
Okay, It's A Good To Die is actually a parody of a patriotism-gone-wild anthem from Starship Troopers 3 (which isn't a bad movie at all, surprisingly). But you gotta admit, it's...
Overheard: The Adult Women Who Love Edward Cullen Too Much Edition - October 31st, 2008 3:35 PM
Say what? I think one of the most frustrating things about my confident, self-assured husband is that he is not in the least bit threatened by my devotion to Edward and Jacob,...
Overheard: The Amazon Review System Revamp Edition - October 30th, 2008 6:18 PM
The left-wing militia is taking over! However, Jerry Saperstein raises a legitimate point: due the semi-organized leftist campaign to suppress the Amazon sale of books they...
Career Women in Romance Novels - October 30th, 2008 10:47 AM
Why is it that Very Busy Millionaire Businessmen Heroes can find time to go through girlfriends but Very Busy Career Women often moan that they have no time for love in romance...
Unspoken Things - October 29th, 2008 2:15 PM
It occurs to me that any serious discussion between readers and authors on the quality of the genre is going to be go nowhere unless we admit the following:Authors sometimes...
I hate myself for saying this but - October 23rd, 2008 3:35 PM
He's so easy on the eyes. Tell me I'm not the only one who feels this way.