http://www.theresameyers.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:54:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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? :grin: 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 ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/14/valentines-romance-and-commercialism/ You would think that writers stick together. Um, yeah. :roll: 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 ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/12/literary-fiction-vs-genre-fiction-the-big-debate/ 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 ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/14/case-study-what-not-to-do-when-you-get-slammed-as-an-author/ 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 ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/11/whats-up-with-edwards-the-savage-saga-of-ethics/ I admit, I don't blog often. ;-)OK, I only blog where I'm scheduled to with my fellow writers from the American Title Contest on our blog Title Wave. But so many people have either emailed or called in the last month or so to find out ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/08/since-you-asked/ If you’ve seen the play Wicked or read any of the alternatives stories to The Wizard of Oz, then you know that Dorothy didn’t borrow those ruby slippers—she stole them. The same thing is happening just as innocently (or not) at a site called esnips.com which has allowed the ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/28/yes-dorothy-it-is-stealing/ I'm a busy person. Most of us are. We have lives (ok most of us have lives). A lot of my friends seem very mystified by the whole process of writing a book in the first place. Making tea, they get. Including chocolate dougnuts with ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/23/if-onlygetting-to-writing/ Since this time last year, I was overwhelmed with the process of being an American Title II finalist, it beehoves me to annouce and welcome the American Title III finalists to our little sisterhood of insanity. This year's ATIII finalists are: Kim Howe – ONE SHOT, TWO KILLS Meretta Pater – RISING SIN Jenny ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/03/american-title-iii-it-begins/ There are things we all love to do. But some of those things can be dangerous for you, even outright deadly. I found this out first hand during an innocent trip to run the ATVs (that’s four-wheelers for those who aren’t addicted) on the sand dunes with my family the ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/02/dangerous-obsessions/ OK, I've been a very bad, bad blogger, and I hereby apologize. I've had just a bit on my plate since I sold my first book! There has been disaster (my computer going on the complete fritz for nearly two weeks and emerging from the computer doctor's with ... http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/index.php/2006/06/17/how-a-writer-celebrates/