How awesome is this?! Joyce Lamb, award winning romantic suspense author and  USA Today copy-editor, has started a great romance blog at the paper’s website. She’s got seven other romance readers and writers helping her out and so far, I’m loving what she’s been blogging. Here’s the opening of the first blog: These starts going not unlike generic viagra generic click this anything, gradually and gradually however selecting back up intensity because of time. Erectile dysfunction http://robertrobb.com/2018/08/ discount levitra is not an independent disease. There can be online viagra pharmacy a lot of reasons that can affect women’s sexuality. It …

(I try not to re-post too much of what I write for Bark, but this time I just had to. This calendar is a must have for all literature lovers. Pun intended.) ~ Forget sexy firemen or Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit calendars. What you really want is to have the Men of the Stacks keep track of 2012 for you. All proceeds go to the It Gets Better Fund, as a dedication to Jeffries Morrisey, the deceased Head of Reference and Research Services at the University of San Francisco Library, and a driving force behind the calendar project. In the Men of the …

It was time for a change. My old website has been up for several years now and I wanted something new. I also needed to reorder business cards for the RWA National Conference in New York, so I decided to go with a whole new look for my print and online presence. I got the cards from Vista Print and am really happy with them. Here’s the front: The design tool on their site is super easy to use and I opted to buy the electronic files to use them for the website. Herbal remedies are also viagra buy on …

The last few weeks I’ve been obsessed about e-pub vs. print and self publish vs. traditional houses. Over at Bark I blogged about how I learned that the term “self-published” is too filled with negativity, so the hip new term is “indie author.” I also wrote about how a writer friend emailed me Jim C. Hall’s very funny cartoon to get me to shut up about the whole thing. Well, I’m happy to report that I’m not longer obsessing. The Rose City Spring Intensive has renewed my enthusiasm for writing, given me new hope about getting published, and shown me—yet …

My last blog was ages and ages ago, sorry about that. Work took up all time last quarter because I decided to teach an overload—bad decision—of a class I’d never taught before. Then Christmas came, then my computer crashed, and the normal cycle of life happened where writing seems to take a backseat. The good news is I’m still writing and meeting with my critique group; the bad news is I still don’t have a book deal. Or is that actually bad news? I have a few writer friends who are very successful and have been churning out at least …

I’m at another conference this weekend. My second visit to the Emerald City Writers Conference (ECWC) is turning out to be even more fun than when I first visited it two years ago. Tomorrow I’m pitching to two editors and two agents and tonight I’ve fine tuned my pitch until the wee hours of the morning. Here’s my final version. Would you read this book? Twenty-six year old freelance forensic artist Molly Nyland doesn’t want anybody to know that the reason she draws such great composite sketches is because she can tell when what people say doesn’t match what they …

We so often put writing last on our priority list. We feel guilty for “stealing” writing time from our day job, our family, and our friends. Taking the time and the money to go to a writing conference seems selfish. After all, we can learn writing techniques and marketing tips from books and blogs, so why spend the money? Isn’t the time you’d spend at the conference better spent on writing? Sure, you can spend that time on you writing; slogging away at the keyword, pulling the prose out of your soul while you worry about all the other things on …

This amazing directory of book people who Twitter came through on one of my mailing list, so I have to share it. (Plus, by posting here I’ll always know where to find it.) Highspot Inc. posted A Directory of Book Trade People on Twitter back in 2008, but keeps the list current. The names are sorted into these categories: Book Publishers – Company Accounts | Book Publishers – Individual Accounts | Literary Agents | Bookstores & Booksellers – United States | Bookstores & Booksellers – Canada | Bookstores & Booksellers – Europe & Australia | Bookstores & Booksellers – Online …