Archives for “love stories”
Every now and then I do a blog on words that have suddenly become popular, but that I had rarely seen in print before. They are all good words, mind you. However, after decades, even centuries, of rarely being used in everyday speech or writing, they turn into “hot words” and seem to be everywhere. [...]
37 Comments. Posted by Madeline Hunter on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 3:42 am.
Filed under Madeline Hunter, On Writing!, alpha males, handsome guys, historical novels, historical romance, love stories, memes, trends, vocabulary, women's fiction, words, writing.
Last night, I desperately wanted something sweet, but I’m dieting, so there are no cookies or cakes or candy in the house. I prowled around my kitchen, opening the fridge, the cupboards, growled, closed them again. At last, I spied a banana—Eureka!—and sliced it into a little bowl, then drizzled a little chocolate syrup over [...]
51 Comments. Posted by Barbara on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 1:59 am.
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I never went on one of those wild spring break trips in college. I was not the type to sleep in my car, live on the beach. Let’s face it. I was never a candidate for “Girls Gone Wild.” My idea of a wild night is more than two glasses of vino. The very first [...]
63 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 2:26 am.
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As I sit here we are expecting 6-12 more inches of the white and fluffy. As my yard already looks like this I’m not happy. The first few snowfalls are so pretty. When the boys were small a snow day was a holiday. (They still are, but once you aren’t in school any [...]
88 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Friday, March 8, 2013 at 2:02 am.
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I could hear this song in my head but I had to go and look it up to remember who sang it. The Miracles. Oh yeah! And also Linda Ronstadt. Why do I care you ask? Because we have a new baby in the family and I am very psyched. What is it about babies [...]
87 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Monday, February 18, 2013 at 2:57 am.
Filed under Lori Austin, Lori Handeland, alpha males, babies, bad boys, Barbara O'Neal, Barbara Samuel, bestselling romance writer, blog for women, Christie Ridgway, Claudia Dain, great guys, handsome guys, handsome men, Hugh Jackman, humor, humorous blog, hunks, Julia London, Lori Austin Karen Hawkins, Lori Handeland, love, love stories, love story, Madeline Hunter, Rachel Gibson, romance, romance books, romance fiction, romance novels, romance writer, romantic fiction, Sabrina Jeffries, sexy guys, sexy men, Suzanne Enoch, the goddess blogs.
A few years ago I admitted to myself that I write heroes that in all likelihood I might not marry if I met them in real life. Part of that has to do with the selectivity of fiction— in my books I can change them by the end of the book in ways that real life probably [...]
186 Comments. Posted by Madeline Hunter on Friday, February 15, 2013 at 3:43 am.
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It is February which means I have survived the worst month in Colorado, which is always January. The days are short, ending claustrophobically even before I’ve started dinner, and it is often bitterly cold. The worst is the boring weather–indifferent, icy sunshine pouring from a frozen blue sky, day after day after day. I ache [...]
74 Comments. Posted by Barbara on Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:16 am.
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As the Superbowl this year had no green and no gold (to both mine and Karen’s heartbreak) I actually watched the commercials. If the Packers were playing I would need the commercial breaks for important things like . . . well, you know. But for most of the first half I could do important things [...]
79 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 2:13 am.
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Now that the holiday season has passed us by (at last!!). I have unpacked and put away the gifts and chosen my favorite. It is my new Keurig Coffee Maker. For years I looked at this item in stores, considered, picked it up, put it back, didn’t get it. Rinse, repeat. I am a coffee [...]
99 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 2:13 am.
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After a long holiday season, I got to thinking about the things people ask me to bring to the table. The actual table. As in food. We all know Julia gets to bring the booze. I never get to bring the booze. But they don’t let me bring anything difficult to make either. IV says [...]
88 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 2:38 am.
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Some authors use photos of their characters to get an image in their heads of how these people appear. I’ve always been the type who shied away from that because I could never find exactly what was in my head in the real world. In truth, physical descriptions of my “peeps” are hard for me. [...]
38 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 2:24 am.
Filed under Lori Austin, Lori Handeland, alpha males, bad boys, Barbara O'Neal, Barbara Samuel, benjamin bratt, bestselling romance writer, blog for women, Christie Ridgway, Claudia Dain, great guys, handsome guys, handsome men, Hugh Jackman, humor, humorous blog, hunks, Joseph Fiennes, Julia London, Lori Austin Karen Hawkins, Lori Handeland, love, love stories, love story, Madeline Hunter, michael biehn, Rachel Gibson, romance, romance books, romance fiction, romance novels, romance writer, romantic fiction, Sabrina Jeffries, sexy guys, sexy men, Suzanne Enoch, the goddess blogs, the magnificent seven, the rock creek six, yul brynner.
MY two front teeth are intact. (Knock wood!) Thank you very much. What I’d really like is for those on my Christmas list to tell me what THEY want so I can buy it without exerting any brain power. My brain power is being drained by 1871 Kansas at the moment and not available for [...]
53 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Monday, December 3, 2012 at 8:21 am.
Filed under Lori Austin, Lori Handeland, alpha males, bad boys, Barbara O'Neal, Barbara Samuel, bestselling romance writer, blog for women, Christie Ridgway, christmas gifts, Claudia Dain, great guys, handsome guys, handsome men, Hugh Jackman, humor, humorous blog, hunks, Julia London, Lori Austin Karen Hawkins, Lori Handeland, love, love stories, love story, Madeline Hunter, Rachel Gibson, romance, romance books, romance fiction, romance novels, romance writer, romantic fiction, Sabrina Jeffries, sexy guys, sexy men, Suzanne Enoch, the goddess blogs.
I’ve written in a lot of genres, but I have yet to write a time travel romance. This isn’t because I don’t like them, because I do. A single whiff of time travel in a back cover blurb or review and I’m there. Same thing with movies. Planet of the Apes, Peggy Sue Got Married, [...]
335 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 2:46 am.
Filed under Lori Austin, Lori Handeland, alpha males, bad boys, Barbara O'Neal, Barbara Samuel, bestselling romance writer, blog for women, Booktoberfest, Christie Ridgway, Claudia Dain, great guys, handsome guys, handsome men, Hugh Jackman, humor, humorous blog, hunks, Julia London, Lori Austin Karen Hawkins, Lori Handeland, love, love stories, love story, Madeline Hunter, Rachel Gibson, romance, romance books, romance fiction, romance novels, romance writer, romantic fiction, Sabrina Jeffries, sexy guys, sexy men, Suzanne Enoch, the goddess blogs, time travel.
Time does fly, except when you’re eagerly awaiting something. Remember when you were a kid–for some of us this is greater stretch than for others–and everything seemed to be so far away? Your next birthday. Christmas. Summer vacation. High school. Graduation. Being legal. Being on your own. All seemed to be so far out of [...]
55 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 2:59 am.
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There are certain artists who shine through. No matter what they’re doing, there’s that certain something that makes them recognizable to others who know them well. For instance, Stephen King wrote several books as Richard Bachman. A lot of readers read the Bachman books and saw Steve shining through. I’ve read both Nora Roberts and [...]
98 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 2:51 am.
Filed under Lori Austin, Lori Handeland, alpha males, american horror story, bad boys, Barbara O'Neal, Barbara Samuel, beauty and the bounty hunter, bestselling romance writer, blog for women, Chuck lorre, Claudia Dain, great guys, handsome guys, handsome men, Hugh Jackman, humor, humorous blog, hunks, J.D. Robb, joss whedon, Julia London, Lori Austin Karen Hawkins, Lori Handeland, love, love stories, love story, Madeline Hunter, Nora Roberts, Rachel Gibson, richard bachman, romance, romance books, romance fiction, romance novels, romance writer, romantic fiction, ryan murphy, Sabrina Jeffries, sexy guys, sexy men, stephen king, Susan Mallory, Suzanne Enoch, The Avengers, the big bang theory, the goddess blogs, western historical romance.
My family has always been big on games. Card games. Board games. Head games. Packer games. Brewers games. Little league, basketball, pee wee football. You get the drill. Games, games, games. Wheee. As a child, one of my favorite games was SORRY. Maybe because my grandma would play this with me whenever I asked. And [...]
50 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Friday, September 21, 2012 at 2:03 am.
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I hate flying. No, let me correct that. I love actually flying. I just hate everything that flying entails now. I hate the airports and their lines. I hate the long concourses that go on for miles. They just keep adding on to them, stringing them out in either direction. Whoever designs them sits there [...]
87 Comments. Posted by Madeline Hunter on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 3:27 am.
Filed under Madeline Hunter, airline seats, airports, alpha males, bestselling romance writer, blog for women, flying, handsome guys, historical novels, historical romance, love stories, travel.
Some years ago I was watching an old movie—I forget the name of it— and there was a scene that remains very clear in my memory. A secondary character was in the frame with the stars. He had few lines. His character’s existence was important to the plot, but not directly involved in it. Anyway, in that [...]
54 Comments. Posted by Madeline Hunter on Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 3:28 am.
Filed under Madeline Hunter, On Writing!, alpha males, bad boys, bestselling romance writer, blog for women, Characterization, chewing up the scenery, great guys, handsome guys, handsome men, hijacking the story, historical romance, Hugh Jackman, love stories, romance books, sexy men, vivid characters.
We here at the Handeland house watch a lot of television. Hell on Wheels, Breaking Bad, True Blood, Supernatural, American Horror Story, Boardwalk Empire . . . I could go on but I’ll refrain. Then there are our old-time favorites. Shows we’ve watched so repeatedly we know exactly what’s going to happen but we laugh [...]
67 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Monday, August 13, 2012 at 2:25 am.
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This won’t be long—I’m afraid I still don’t really have much of a brain. So little brain, in fact, that I forgot I was supposed to blog, so it’s Thursday night and I’m sitting in the breeze blowing through my window, thinking about what will be fun for you. But maybe what’s fun for me [...]
51 Comments. Posted by Barbara on Friday, August 3, 2012 at 2:13 am.
Filed under Barbara O'Neal, Barbara O'Neal, Barbara Samuel, bestselling romance writer, blog for women, Claudia Dain, goddess blogs, Julia London, Karen Hawkins, Lori Handeland, love stories, Madeline Hunter, Rachel Gibson, rita awards, Romance Writers of America, Sabrina Jeffries, Suzanne Enoch.
I am just back from 9 days in Anaheim at the RWA National Convention. Yes, that was NINE days. As I’m on the board of directors I get to go early. Whee. However, because I was there early, and we got all our homework done, I also got to go to DisneyLand. I’d never been. [...]
53 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 2:29 am.
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I love the Internet. Every day I find a new, cool website to add to my old favorites. Today we’re going to share and share alike our favorite places to waste time and buy things. My newest time waster is: http://triviatoday.com/ You do have to register, but then you receive a trivia question by email [...]
55 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 2:07 am.
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One of the questions I am asked most frequently is: “Do you write about your life in your books?” (Although lately I am asked non-stop about 50 SHADES OF GRAY. Sigh.) It’s always interesting to me that people would rather believe that I actually know a few werewolves than that I could construct such a disturbing [...]
38 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 2:02 am.
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Do you ever hear someone’s ringtone and wonder just who is calling them based on the song? I suppose not everyone spends valuable time searching for the perfect ringtone to fit those people who call them often enough to warrant their own tone. But I do. I like to know who’s calling without having to [...]
78 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Friday, June 15, 2012 at 2:39 am.
Filed under Lori Austin, Lori Handeland, alpha males, bad boys, Barbara O'Neal, Barbara Samuel, beatles, bestselling romance writer, blog for women, Claudia Dain, cruella, great guys, handsome guys, handsome men, Hugh Jackman, humor, humorous blog, hunks, Julia London, Lori Austin Karen Hawkins, Lori Handeland, love, love stories, love story, Madeline Hunter, Rachel Gibson, ringtones, romance, romance books, romance fiction, romance novels, romance writer, romantic fiction, Sabrina Jeffries, sexy guys, sexy men, Susan Mallory, Suzanne Enoch, the goddess blogs.
I suppose I’m dating myself by this title. Those of us who remember the old commercial with the song “Who wears short shorts? We wear short shorts. If you dare wear short shorts, NAIR for short shorts,” are women of a certain age. Show of hands. Who used NAIR? At any rate, I’m not talking [...]
63 Comments. Posted by Lori Handeland on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 2:49 am.
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