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Valentine’s, Romance and Commercialism

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

I have a love/hate relationship with Valentine’s Day.
How can you not love a holiday that is about love, celebrated by eating chocolate?
But I hate what commercialism has done to it. My kids, in grade school mind you, feel pressured to BUY things for friends, their teachers, even their parents! WTH?
Valentine’s Day […]

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Literary Fiction vs. Genre Fiction, The Big Debate

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

You would think that writers stick together.
Um, yeah. Let me disabuse you of that notion right now.
There are literary writers and there are genre writers. Kind of like there are Catholics and Southern Baptists. Both Christians, but totally different.
Literary writers are given reviews, […]

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Cassie Edwards - a Case Study: Or what not to do when you get slammed as an author.

Monday, January 14th, 2008

OMG. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to a blog…it all gets worse. It appears now that historical romance novelist Cassie Edwards has not only taken passages from many a research book verbatim into her own novels, but has also taken passages as well from the 1930 Pulitzer […]

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What’s up with Edwards? The Savage Saga of Ethics

Friday, January 11th, 2008

It seems like you can’t turn a corner without running into a comment about mega-selling romance author Cassie Edwards. Right now it’s all over the blogosphere and nearly every major newspaper since the Associated Press got a hold of Nora Roberts for a comment.
I regularly read the blog Smart Bitches Trashy Books that broke […]

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