romance | romance
Apr.09.2009
This morning the Today show had a piece on the recession and books that sell during recessions. I was surprised, or perhaps not so surprised, to hear that romance novels, especially, sell well during periods of economic downturn. The happy endings, for the most part, are what is needed during...
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Apr.01.2009
(Note to self: Must publish more than once a month. Bad blogger. Bad, bad blogger.)
So today is publication day for Secret Seductions: 62 Naughty Nights, Lusty Liaisons and Sexy Surprises. You can buy it at all the usual places: Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, etc. I celebrated by...going to work...
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Mar.28.2009
Having just returned from a lovely week in Paris with my sixteen-year-old daughter I was intrigued to pick up my friend Jamie Cat Callan's new book French Women Don't Sleep Alone and find so much good and spunky wisdom in it. I've traveled to France a dozen times and lived there two years from 2001...
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Mar.25.2009
Next month, I'll be on a panel with a group of mystery writers at the Romantic Times convention in Orlando. Our moderator has given us some flexibility with our discussion topic, and I think I'm going to talk about expectations of each genre, and how to blend them, especially since most of the...
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Mar.20.2009
…further chitchat with Deborah Bouziden…
DB: Who introduced you to Kathleen Woodiwiss’ books or did you stumble across them in the library? What drew you to them and would you recommend them to beginning romance writers today? Why?
SW: When I was in college, I had a summer job at a department store...
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Mar.20.2009
It took me by surprise when a doctor who hadn't examined me before asked if I was widowed. "No, I've been divorced for 25 years," I replied. "That's a long time to be alone," he commented. I was bemused because I never think of myself as "alone." To the contrary, I...
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Mar.13.2009
The cover for the last novel in my second trilogy rolled into the email inbox yesterday morning. Lately, covers are always a surrpise, and I try not to imagine that I ever had any control over them. Letting go of that need to control things that aren't really in my control has been one useful...
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Mar.04.2009
The objectification of men is a big part of romance novel covers. Objectification seems only better when done on those not always objectified, but, of course, probably none of it is really good for the human soul. However, sex, as my former editor used to say, sells (I think she borrowed that...
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Feb.27.2009
If you enjoyed the movie The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, you'll get a real kick out of Stand-In Groom by Kaye Dacus.
Anne Hawthorne resides in Bonneterre, Louisiana, a fictionally "real" town with lots of equally "real" characters. A successful...
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Feb.13.2009
Saw this in the paper the other day. Couldn't help but think about one of the first 'romance' books I read. My mother had been visiting, and she went on and on about this great book she'd finished, and then was even more excited when she found out she'd read the second in the series (which was...
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