From the monthly archives:

June 2010

No whining here!

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

I’m on vacation, so there’s no whining here. Everything is perfect, smooth sailing, fabulously wonderful. The friends who are staying in our house while we’re gone are actually going to clean it top to bottom and replace all the fixtures and paint all the walls. It’s heaven! (Okay, maybe they won’t, but, hey, we just [...]

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Good Book Good Buy Tuesday

by Julia London

I have a good buy that I hope you will think is a good book today!  The beauty of being a member of a blog like this is that I get to take over and tell you about my latest book, officially available today.  ONE SEASON OF SUNSHINE was a book that was hard as [...]

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Pop Culture: The Play’s the Thing

by Dee Davis

Okay so I read an article that, thanks to the success of shows like Glee, the American musical has been reborn.  First off, I had no idea that it had died.  Having a stack of Playbills on my bookshelf, most of which are from musicals we’ve seen over the past seven years, I’d have said [...]

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK—WHAT MAKES YOU PROUD?

by Jacquie D'Alessandro

 For the past three weeks my son has been at Fort Benning, Georgia, attending Army Airborne school.  That’s where they learn how to jump out of planes.  Uh huh.  I haven’t been nervous AT ALL (wanna hear about the bridge I have for sale in Brooklyn?).  My husband and I are attending his Airborne graduation [...]

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Hat’s Off, er, On!

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Ascot Fashion Report! Sure, we have the Kentucky Derby with our own dazzling array of hats. Every year, I watch, waiting to ooh and aah– and some are good. But generally, the UK has us beat on fashions to wear to the races. Especially, on the hats. I’m reminded of Austen’s Lydia Bennet buying an ugly [...]

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What Makes a Romance?

by Kathleen O'Reilly

I considered making this a really techy-writing post, but I’m sort of techy-writing-ed out.  I’m just starting on the new book and that is never easy for me, so I decided to do something fun today instead. Lately I’ve been thinking about romance, the genre.  Recently my editor was talking about some of the changes [...]

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Whiny Wednesday: At Last I Have Found My True Calling!

by Sherri Browning Erwin

(Original Kathleen Givens, from 10/14/08) You know how you have one of those breakthrough moments, when with complete clarity and certainty you know exactly what you need to do or change in your life? I had one earlier today. Suddenly I realized that all the jobs I’ve ever held, including being a hack, I mean [...]

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Good Buys: The Wii (Yes, I’m pathetically behind the times)

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

Considering how techno-grabby I am on the iSide of things, it may come as a surprise to know that I’m way behind the times on computer games. But little Miss had surgery last Wednesday, and in order to compensate for the lack of outdoor playtime, we decided to stop at a Game Stop and buy [...]

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Pop Culture Monday: Delebrities

by Julia London

This week is the anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death.  Remember that he was in debt when he died?  The mind boggled–millions of dollars in debt.  I can’t imagine how money like that slips through your fingers.  But good news!  MJ is solvent again, thanks to his post-death music sales AND a new contract from Sony [...]

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Happy Father’s Day

by Sherri Browning Erwin

We love dads! Especially good-looking, bare-chested dads holding adorable babies (courtesy of Hartshorn Portraiture). I mean… ahem… I mean, we all love our own dear dads and husbands. Father’s Day here is filled with the sound of vuvuzelas. My husband is recuperating from unexpected surgery on Friday (Wednesday, excruciating neck pain. Thursday, all day at [...]

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Question of the Week: It’s all in the perspective

by Dee Davis

So recently I was doing an interview and one of the questions was “if you were locked in a room for a week what would you want with you?”   I said a bathroom – I’ve always erred on the practical side.  (Okay, I said other pithy things too, but seriously you’d need a bathroom).  Anyway, [...]

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FASHION FRIDAY: THE KIDS HAVE IT

by Jacquie D'Alessandro

I read an article this week that some parents from the online parenting group Mumsnet are up in arms over the fact that retailers such as GapKids and Next (a British retailer) are selling high heels for little girls as young as three years old.  And who is to blame for started this toddler fashion [...]

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Writer’s Corner: Twisted Sister

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Yep, that’s me. No, not the 80s glam band featuring Dee Snider (who, incidentally, was dating a romance author and once showed up at an RWA conference– how cool are we, RWA?) But me, the middle child of Donna and Harold (he prefers to be called Wes, don’t ask). I’m here to talk about a favorite [...]

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Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woeful Garbage

by Kathleen O'Reilly

I do have a whine today and it is a trashy one.  Usually, I am a model citizen.  I respect those people who provide service to me, no matter how menial, no matter how undignified, no matter how lowly. A person is a person no matter how small, or how inglorious their profession. As long [...]

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Thirsty? Bad Buys

by Sherri Browning Erwin

(Classic Kathleen Givens: from 5/29/08) It’s summer! Time for a milkshake or ice cream, or something cool to ward off the heat, right? Well, David Zinczenko of Men’s Health has a list of drinks you just might want to avoid. According to David, the worst “healthy” drink is Glaceau VitaminWater, 20 oz (I’d never heard [...]

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The land down under (and I’m not talking Australia…)

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

Yesterday, we went to Waterloo Records in Austin, always a fun trip even though I have the lowest music IQ on the planet, not only because they’re right next door to Amy’s Ice Cream, but because they have fun, kitschy toys and books. The image at the top of the blog is a book that [...]

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Question of the Week: What’s in YOUR Wallet?

by Julia London

I recently changed purses.   I don’t change very often; I like  to get nice leather bags and stick with them.  This time  I chose a light colored purse I had high on the shelf and dumped my stuff into it. The next day, I was walking out to my car, digging around for my keys, [...]

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Fashion Friday: Summer in the City

by Dee Davis

The heat is on and barely there is the way to go.  This past weekend while eating French food (yes, the kitchen is still closed at the new apartment) we were treated to an up close and personal view of a somewhat inebriated woman as she fondled and canoodled with her scruffy looking significant other. [...]

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The Writing Life: Keeping things fresh

by Jacquie D'Alessandro

When I first began my writing career, I thought it would get easier as I went along.  After all, it makes sense that the more you do something–be it writing, playing tennis, cooking–the better you get at it.  And it would logically follow that the better you get at something, the easier it is–that whole [...]

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Whiny: Too Old for MTV?

by Sherri Browning Erwin

It’s official. I’m old. Yes, I watched the MTV Movie Awards on first broadcast. Why? Because I believed myself young and hip and ready to roll like that, even though I remember having a bad reaction to the broadcast last year. Why? I wondered why when it opened with the kids from Jersey Shore. (Gossip [...]

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Good Books, Good Deals Tuesday!

by Kathleen O'Reilly

I’ve read a few good books these past few weeks.  I finished the new James Patterson, The 9th Judgment, which was a quick, fast read with a few sharp Patterson-esque turns in-between (and quite a few love scenes!).  It’s the Woman’s Murder Club series, which I like, but not with the steaming read passion of [...]

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