I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of community. What is a community? Why do we seek them out, and upon finding them, merge them so tightly to our identity? Since the beginning of time, humans have had an innate need to belong. In an uncertain world where danger literally lurked around every…
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RWA
If you follow the romance writing world at all, you know that the Romance Writers of America has been in serious turmoil these past few weeks. As a member of RWA’s Board of Directors (first as an Advisor and then briefly as a Direct0r-at-Large), I was in the middle of the storm. Or I was…
About Romancelandia
I’m supposed to be doing revisions this morning – a process that I routinely make far more complicated than necessary – but I had thoughts in my head that needed to be written down before I can focus. One of my rituals on Thursday is to log in and read Kristine Kathryn Rausch’s Business Musings…
Barb the Bad Blogger
It’s been a while since I updated this page, I know. Life got a way from me for a while there. To be honest, I stopped blogging because I wasn’t sure anyone was actually reading my posts. (Or my books for that matter.) But then, Penny Watson posted a terrific blog about how she was…
Waiting on Rita
Writers love contests, largely because being named a finalist gives us outside validation that our books are indeed good books. Oh sure, we’ll give great pep talks about how internal validation is better, that our loving our stories is all that matters, but deep down most of us know we’re talking smack. We want –…