Theme Week - Contests

Sexy Comments & Profile Graphics Gack. Mondays are hard but Mondays are my day so let me just swallow another sip of coffee and I'll...

Star Light, Star Bright....Interstellar Interview with Virginia Kantra

Virginia Kantra is a USA Today bestselling author and winner of the Golden Leaf, Holt Medallion, Maggie Award of Excellence and 2 National R...

Becoming a Writer

I didn't become a writer overnight. (I wish I did!) It's the same little story - I'd been writing since I was knee high to a gr...

Guest - Maureen Fisher

Good morning everyone! I hope you're having a fantastic summer. We here at Star-Crossed have been all the wonderful guests we've had...

Beginner's Class: The Paper Clip

Ursula says, damn the Paperclip! But he may have a point. Sorry, I missed my blog day this week – partly because I didn’t really have a good...

Professional Development--A Season For Everything

"How long have you been writing?" "Did you go to college for it?" "How did you learn to write?" The three ques...

Learning by Osmosis

I remember wishing to have the power of osmosis back when I was in high school, and then again at the National Conference in Atlanta. There ...

You don't need to go to school for this

Well, I'm going to amend my title just a tiny bit. You don't need to go to school to learn how to write romantic fiction . But you d...

To Promo or Not to Promo...That is the Question

As soon as I got my contract from Trisk I hit the ground running. I had my website up in a month, designed by Moi. (And yes, I know it needs...

PROMO- The Highs & Lows

PROMO - ah yes, gone are the days when you could write a book and the publisher would do everything else for you. N owadays , writing the ...

Dammit, Jim, I'm an author not a marketing expert!

When I saw this week’s topic I immediately thought of Star Trek’s long-suffering Dr. Leonard McCoy who seemed, on a regular basis, to be ask...

Journal to Remember

Journaling? I vaguely remember doing that as part of an English assignment in high school. (Where I was a weird blend of emo, jock and nerd....

Dear Diary...Bridget Jones I Ain't

I've been reading these excellent posts on journaling and thinking, "gosh, I'm off on such a tangent from everybody else."...

To Journal or not to Journal

ahh - a big debate, huh? Or maybe only a debate in my mind . I used to do a monthly journal on my website, but I gradually stopper. Why? be...

It's not how you say it, but what you say...

...when it comes to journaling, apparently. When I first saw this week’s topic I thought I’d write about blogging, which has become the mode...

Uh...Journaling? Um...er....

Okay, so I don't journal. I know a lot of writers do and from what I hear, they feel it helps them in their craft. Me, I barely have tim...