Random Page - By A Silken Thread

To herald the new release I have coming in July from Triskelion Publishing, I chose to excerpt from By A Silken Thread, rather than a work i...

Random Page from BELIEVE IN ME

I started this post at 8:52 a.m., and since the manuscript doesn’t have 852 pages, I’m posting page 85 from BELIEVE IN ME. Blurb: Go-to-girl...

Random page from Siren's Call

Hey all! I've chosen a page at 7.13pm (UK time) so it'll be from page 13 of my latest release, Siren's Call . Blurb: United Alli...

Random Page Blog from Altered Destiny

How lucky can you get? Page 147 was the start of a chapter :D though I'll admit I included the last five or six words that went on the n...

Random page Post

Okay, I think I did this right. I opened this post up at 8:11 AM and since I don't have 811 pages of my work in progress, I went for pag...

Friday 13th

Angela had difficulty posting this blog so I thought I would do it for her. Let's hope it works. So it's Friday the 13th Down Under....

Rehashing Ideas With a New Twist

No, this isn't about taking genres and marrying them together. I wrote about that a few weeks ago. This is about ideas that have a commo...

Awash in Virgins

Yikes. I'm having a bit of a literary crisis here. I recently found a lot of my "noodle pot" stories--when I finish a big pr...

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Space?

My curiosity was piqued (as I hope others were) a week or so ago by the article “Doohan’s Ashes to be Blasted into Space”. I clicked on the ...

Announcing Star-Crossed Romance on MySpace

Hi Everyone! I've been working diligently...well, maybe diligent is too strong a word, lol, on a MySpace presence for Star-Crossed. I...

Cats and things

Well, what a week it's been! Or should I say month? LOL I've had a run of sick animals, so my vet bill is...okay, we won't go...

The Clutter or Spring Cleaning Your Brain Pan

I know, before anyone says anything...I was supposed to blog yesterday. I promise, I will get this right one day. (And knowing my luck it wi...

Monogamy in Erotic Romance...Or Not?

Well, I was going to do some clever April Fool's Post and backdate this to yesterday, but meh--insert your own suitable prankage here. ...

Some Shameless Beggin'

I found out last nigth that Ravenstar's Bride has finaled in the Best Overall Science Fiction Romance Category in the Fantasm Awards! Th...

Bug Guy & Spider Gal: Sexy or Spooky?

Still vacillating between what to talk about in this post, I got a clear and present (though not so dangerous) sign. (I am a big believe in ...

Siren's Call ~ Out Now!

Here's my new futuristic romance, out now at New Concepts Publishing. Blurb: United Alliance starships have been sent to evacuate the po...

In Like A Lamb, Out Like A Lion

March, in Michigan, is a very capricious month. One day there might be snow and freezing rain, the next warm spring air and vibrant blue ski...

The future of writing about the future

I've always been fascinated by the ability of science fiction writers to look into the crystal ball of their imaginations and build the ...

Spring Fling

I was supposed to post on Friday, but had to work and was finishing up on a novella an editor at Red Sage had asked for a full on, and tryin...

Boinnngggg!

Spriiiinnnnnggggg!!! Ever so glorious, thank the gods it's here finally, spring! I noticed that the Blogger dashboard this morning said,...

Spring Into Something New

With Spring now upon us, I paused to consider what the season was about (and also in part because I needed a theme for this post). I conclu...

Wandering thoughts on Spring

Anyone who’s known me for more than a year probably also knows that Spring is my favorite season. I start a countdown shortly after New Year...

So they call this spring?

Happy Spring Week at Star Crossed Romance! 'Tis the season to think of gentle breezes, new flowers and the blush of love...somewhere in ...

introducing new genres

You know, once upon a time (sounds like the start of a fairy tale LOL ) I used to only read historical romances, the odd contemporary romanc...

Me Too!! Immorati now available

Finally, after months of waiting and nail biting, Immorati is now available on ebook from Triskelion Publishing. Jumping up and down like a ...

New Release - Altered Destiny

My newest release from Triskelion Publishing is now available! I had great fun writing Altered Destiny, a SF Fantasy filled with elf-like al...

I Need a Hero...ine

I've got the seeds for a WIP for another anthology traveling around in my head. One of the minor characters I got somewhat attached to ...

Read It And Weep

I don’t know about the rest of you, but sometimes I can break into tears over something I’m reading. What makes it even worse? When the word...

Babysitting

Hi Everyone, (This post should have come through yesterday but I had 'issues' with Blogger. Normally, I'd just skip my turn but ...

Smurfish, Mother-Smurfer...Do You Smurf It?

So this week's special topic here at Star-Crossed is Alien Languages. I understand that Tolkien wrote the entire Lord of the Rings body...

Once Upon A Time in Winzles

Once upon a futuristic time in Winzles there lived super-saviors. It’s a town pretty much like any other, where the old was overtaken by the...

Alien Language for Writers 101

This week our theme is Alien Languages. I’m going to confess right now the only alien language I’ve ever heard is what’s babbled out of a on...

Wowza is the same in any language

Okay, I was supposed to come up with a post on alien languages today and I admit it, I dropped the ball. I went food shopping, ranted to a f...

A Calculated Risk

Available today from Amber Heat ! A Calculated Risk by Bernadette Gardner ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-000-8 (Electronic) Tarrant Kane was bred for ...

Sale!

Hi Everyone! I just wanted to announce that Linda Wisdom and I have sold our second erotic paranormal novella to Triskelion Publishing. No o...

Procrastination

Procrastination. I'm good at it. Here I am, I should have started book 14 in my Heart & Soul series. A Love's title. Deadlin...

When Technology Runs Amok

Or just plain doesn't want to cooperate with us. Take my phone for instance. Now, it's not my secondary line which has the DSL runni...