by Ruthie | May 18, 2011 | WIP Wednesday
I’m working on a (probably very dull) post about the difference between grammar and style, but in the meantime I understand it’s Work-In-Progress Wednesday, so I’ll share a little something from my current project, THE MORNING AFTER. (Details about...
by Ruthie | May 12, 2011 | Reading/Writing
Long ago and far away, I was a graduate student, and I wrote a dissertation on baby farming in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Baby farming is not especially good fodder for cocktail party conversation or romance-writing blogging, in that it’s both gruesome and...
by Ruthie | May 10, 2011 | Grammar for Writers
Commas are tricky. There are firm rules about commas, there are squishy rules about commas, there are style variations with commas, there are international differences in comma usage, and then there’s the fact that you can play with them and develop your own...
by Ruthie | Apr 21, 2011 | Reading/Writing
The first romance novel I ever read was a Silhouette Desire, I think. I stumbled upon it with my best friend, Rachel, around 1992 or 1993. I have since tried to locate the book online, to no avail, so I can’t tell you the author or the title, but the main...
