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Her Wrist Ached

MADLY is releasing in just a few days! In a lovely five-star review, Reading Reality says, “This was the perfect book for me on a weekend where I was laid up with both a cold and a bruised leg. I was feeling out of sorts in so many possible directions, and...

Commas for Writers, Take Two

Now that we all understand the grave importance of using a comma and a conjunction to join two independent clauses (right? RIGHT?), we can start looking at some of the other, wackier, pain-in-the-assier comma rules that writers tend to flub. And remember, I’m...

Confessions of a Ruthless Editor

I tear other people’s writing to pieces for a living. They actually don’t pay me for the tearing-to-pieces part, nor do they tend to thank me for it. Sometimes, when I speak to them on the phone, they laugh about how very many things I’ve changed in...

Sex and Redemption in Romance

I’ve been thinking about sex lately. It’s Cara McKenna’s fault, really: I read another one of her books, Ready and Willing, over the Fourth of July weekend, and it made me all thinky, as her novels are wont to do. Then I read this blog post by Jane...

Plunging In: On Being a Reader Who Writes

I can’t stop reading, really. I’m the sort of person who can’t sit at the table and talk to someone if there’s junk mail in my line of vision. I’ll keep glancing to the side, unable to tear my eyes away from that donation solicitation or...