Manfiction

Posted by on Oct 23, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Stephen King’s “Who Says Men Don’t Read” column from Entertainment Weekly, a late September installment of his “The Pop of King” column (yes, I’m behind in my reading), provides some interesting food for thought about genre fiction in general, but the divide of the sexes in particular. In countering the industry’s moanings that “men...
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Annual Dose of Crazy

Posted by on Oct 16, 2008 in dish | 3 comments So two years ago I decide to throw the biggest wrench in the world into my already packed schedule and do NaNoWriMo. Thirty days, fifty thousand words–one month to a complete first draft of a novel. Normally, I’m a save-it-up-behind-the-dam gal. I’ll think and fidget and think and ponder and then finally sit down and blurt out whole chapters at a time. Those chapters tend to be...
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If You Can’t Say Something Nice

Posted by on Sep 30, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Lauren Lise Baratz-Logsted has some excellent advice for writers today. In her “Dear Author: Don’t Be a Jerk. No, Really.” post at Red Room, she takes authors to task for distasteful behavior. Things you’d think authors would realize, like not calling out other authors, not dissing authors who have been kind enough to give you a blurb, restraining yourself over negative...
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Grammarrrrrrr!

Posted by on Sep 23, 2008 in dish | 0 comments
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Cool Chick: Nancy Drew

Posted by on Sep 19, 2008 in dish | 1 comment In our eyes, she is forever eighteen, resourceful, and smart. She is Nancy Drew, and she is the ultimate Cool Chick.Nancy had boatloads of freedom and resources while those of us sucked between her yellow covers (this was, after all, the 70s) ached for them. She had Ned, a hot boyfriend, but didn’t suffer by the phone praying for him to call. She had a kicky blue convertible. She had her...
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