Progress report: cards

When last I was here I talked about getting into the habit of using index cards– for quick notes, for organizing thoughts, and eventually for getting visual feel for a story.  Since I’ve got a lot of stuff in my head right now, I set a goal for 10 cards a day.
10 cards has been [...]

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Whew! Just Made It!

I just saw this post at Alison Kent’s blog (yes, I am behind, thanks) and was able to get my order in just under the wire. 
Can you imagine.  I had to find this wish list I wasn’t 100% sure was going to be there, or if it was, it could well have been under some crafty [...]

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Jo Leigh’s Kidnapped!

When I finally realized my mental health would benefit from picking up a book and getting away for a while instead of trying to do everything, I picked up Kidnapped! by Jo Leigh. 
It was a really enjoyable read.  One of the things I love about category romance is that when you find an author who [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #4: 13 Plot Devices I Love to Read

It took me a bit to come up with this one.  Thirteen is a lot of anything, and so of course some of these are more favorite than others, some of them can and often do overlap, and there will be some I didn’t manage to think of at the right time. 
Want to mention some [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #3: 13 Kick-Ass Fictional Females

Thirteen Kick-ass Fictional Females
(an incomplete and imperfect list in no particular order)
1. Eve Dallas (JD Robb’s –in Death books)
2. Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series)
3. Wonder Woman (TV series)
4. La Femme Nikita (TV series)
5. Queen Aeron (Kennealy-Morrison’s Keltia books)
6. the Anita Blake who was (early books in the LK Hamilton series)
7. Max (Dark [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #2: 13 Stories I Want to Share With My Daughter

I think I’ve mentioned around here somewhere that I have trouble making myself finish books outside of a particular genre. And yet, when I make myself stick with them, there are so many stories I’ve loved outside of my reading comfort zone. I have it in my head that when my daughter starts sitting still [...]

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Linda Howard’s White Lies

I loved this story. I am the biggest sucker for amnesia stories. I’m pretty sure it’s part of being a recovering soap addict (TV soap, though, not book soap).
The FBI comes to Jay Granger and asks her to identify her ex-husband, Steve Crossfield who is in a coma. She hasn’t seen Steve in five years. [...]

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Sherri L. King’s Steele

Well, I finally gave in and bought an ebook from Ellora’s Cave.  Steele, a novella-length story just under 100 pages, is the first book in Sherri L. King’s Sterling Files series.  We don’t learn too much about Sterling, except that it’s a research company that studies people with “special abilities”, is funded by the government.  Sterling is rivaled [...]

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Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

For those of you to whom it applies, Happy Independence Day!
I should be better about posting about books than I am.  Usually I finish one and pick up the next and life happens and pretty soon I feel like I don’t remember it enough to give it a real review.  I think I’m getting to [...]

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Twue Wruv

So last night Kettle and I were chatting, as we are wont to do, and we got on the subject of how quickly relationships evolve in books.  She was concerned that her characters might be taking things a bit faster than is believable.  I didn’t think so.  I said:
Two things, I guess, I want while I’m reading.
1. [...]

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