Archives for March, 2013
This just came out this week, and naturally, I’m ready to see it NOW: There’s something about a superhero. And what’s amazing is that there are so many different types. We just saw WOLVERINE, who is tall, dark and tormented; he’s a hero searching for an answer. And then there’s IRON MAN, who is brilliant, [...]
With all the great new releases that have come out the last few weeks, the Goddesses were curious as to what you are reading now and what made you pick up that particular book? Was it from an author you love? A series you have been following? A new author you wanted to try? [...]
As many of you know, I’m an F.A. (FROS Aficionado). I surf the ‘nets for hours (days) on end, searching out the most delectable pics of warm-blooded men to send you off into your work week with a smile of joy upon your faces. I spend so much time searching for these pics, that I [...]
The Goddesses are welcoming spring to Mt Oly, or trying to – Zeus seems to be playing around with the weather in an effort to confuse them. Since the Goddesses are starting to get spring fever, we thought it would be fun to play Title Mashup! Using the following four titles, come up with your [...]
A year ago I wrote an e-novella, Crazy On You. When my publisher asked me to write a short story, I immediately knew I wanted to write about Lily Darlington. I first wrote about Lily in my book, Daisy’s Back In Town, published in 2004. In 2004, Lily was a secondary character in her sister [...]
I just got back from a two week trip to Italy. It was mostly work (I brought some students over to study art during the first week) and partly vacation. Through all of it, however, the writer side of me was alive and asborbing and reflecting. For example, I visited a little known museum in [...]
I love, LOVE the color green. As you change the shade, it can evoke different emotions. For example, when it’s vivid, it is very invigorating. Here, see if this shade of green invigorates you: Are you invigorated? I am! Deepen the color a bit and wham, it becomes powerful: Whew. That’s a lot of green [...]
Do you have a favorite style of cover? Have you been drawn to a particular style? If you’ve been curious about how covers come about, there are a couple of videos of how cover artist extraordinaire Jon Paul Ferrara creates his amazing covers from picking talent and costumes, to the photography then adding his magic [...]
You might think because I write A Cheese Shop Mystery that I’m going to share my delicious research with you. Yes, I went from shop to shop, tasting extraordinarily sexy cheeses with sensual names like TuscanTartufo, Roaring Forties Blue, Triple Cream Brie, and Fromage d’Affinois. But I’m not going to share that experience because I [...]
Imagine a clean room you have just moved into: there are boxes of books to your left and a wall of brand new bookshelves in front of you just waiting to be filled. How do you go about unpacking your books? Do you put them up by size? Color? Author? Genre? However they happen to [...]
