kate rothwell

Here's part of their review of Powder of Love: Are aphrodisiacs real? If they are, what happens when they affect various members of a Victorian era household? POWDER OF LOVE is a funny, spicy and at times, downright graphic story of a woman who inherits a box full of aphrodisiac.. . . . The growing relationship between the dour Gideon Reed and the outgoing and strong willed Rosalie is delightful to read. Rosalie's interactions with the various secondary characters are well written. The presence of this aphrodisiac provides for some pretty hilarious comedy as various people fall under its influence. It is also the cause of some of the steamy action that occurs. At just under 200 pages, this book is a wonderfully complete read. It's a story that stays with you long after you finish reading! This book isn't for the faint of heart! The sex is graphic; it involves group sex, public sex and M/M sex. -- the rest is here. And here's the Mad Baron review--i...

Gave us for Only whoops, first they sent the note to Marie Treanor saying Congrats BONNIE AND MARIE!** It's not a complete mystery why they'd think of that author combo-- Bonnie and Marie do write some really fun books together. **** Hey. I have absolutely no problem with being mistaken for Marie Treanor . On my good days, I aspire to be Marie Treanor . *** Oh, whoops, again (me, this time). Edited to put up the book that actually won. _______________ **and if you now have one of the greatest hits of Donny and Marie stuck in your head, you're welcome. **** Oh! Another update with another reason cataromance might have mixed it up: Marie and Bonnie also won a 2010 Best Of Award for this book .

Whoa. This blog is sort of featured. I wish I could frame that post over at Linc's because, dude, it is going to be the only time I'm ever going to be shoved into the same division conference as Neil Gaiman. Does this mean I have to start using punctuation and hunting down missing words** in the blog? Naw, I should have a couple of days ago. It's moot now. And for anyone who wants to know what I think the blog's theme is: Stream of Consciousness Random with Occasional Stabs at Promo. Also forays into fretting and bleeding heart politics. SBD is all Beth's . If you want to see truly elegant Stream of Consciousness, go visit Beth. _____________ ** for instance "to" is a word I can't seem to use/place properly. Always the little shit that trips one up.

Or offers to a1de me get the man-tool enlargment I deserve to satisfy my lady * * * Dear Summer, On behalf of the EPIC Board and the EPPIE Committee, we are please to inform you that your e-book, The Knight's Challenge , has been selected as a finalist in the Erotic Romance Fantasy/Paranormal . Please accept our congratulations. We wish you luck in the final round of judging. The 2008 EPPIEs will be awarded at the awards ceremony on March 8, 2008 during EPICon in Portland, Oregon. Again our congratulations and good luck in the finals. Carol MacLeod 2008 EPPIE Chair

another sale to another start-up company. This one is Alexis Fleming's latest publisher. She and Lyn Cash and I wrote another of those connected series of books (I love working on those things) and Alexis really likes the total ebound people. Alexis and the other TEB person I checked with, Portia Da Costa, both enjoy working with the company a lot. It's kind of fun to see books for sale in other currencies. I bought a book there, just to make sure (okay, just to read it. Yay Sam Winston! It's a short, fun book) Their webpage was beautifully easy to use and the process smooth going. The store portion didn't mind that I wanted to play in dollars. I guess that's paypal's domain, but still easy, easy, easy. I finally figured out if you're an author who might hook up with an ebook company, the most important advice for you, young lady: Make sure it's simple to buy the damn books! Ebooks are usually such impulse buys--mine are, anyway. Anyway, if the site is...

I made a special award for myself. See? If you made the list, feel free to steal the award for yourself. Heck, steal it if you feel like you deserve it or if you just want it. It's not like the award says which Karen I'm talking about. If you have a friend named Karen you might want to get her to make a list of " Authors Not.... " and put you on it.

You know what? I am so smart it is unbelievable. I should be an editor, I'm that smart. ** I knew Linda Winfree was going to sell soon when I read a chapter or two of her unpubbed stuff. I knew Linda Gayle was, too. I was certain Shannon Stacey would be a good writer just because she's so dang funny. Larissa I Dionne (and I didn't even know she wanted to do Le Fiction) MelJean and lots of other people? I was fully aware that they were all that and lotsa bags of chips as well. AND I figured this out just from reading their blogs or their emails. (Okay, I read the Lindas' fiction.) So someone else I'd decided is going to have a brilliant fiction-writing career has just been launched on her way. Ha. I TOLD you so. I'm always right, okay? And if I'm not it's only because someone else screwed up somehow, maybe. In the meantime, Bron, Doug, Carrie--it's only a matter of time. See above, please. (Beth, you too, except for the giving up part) I'll put in...

Sometimes I know when something in one of my stories is off. This is boring, says the inner muse. It's putting me to sleep. That's about as much as the muse with share with me, though. Usually I'm not sure what the problem is and I almost never come up with a fix right away. Today I saw the problem and knew how to fix it before I drank coffee this morning. First up: boy shuffling, exercise and then I'll fix the novel's problem and make the plot scream with ecstasy, even though it's not one of those stories. How did I manage to see/solve it with so little effort? No flipping clue. Yo, I'm elated when I pinpoint a problem. Self editing is not a strong point so I don't often see there is one, much less where it is or what to do. I need crit partners. How do you root out and destroy bad stuff in your writing? Reading aloud? Crit Partners? Letting the work sit for a while and pretending you've never read it? Following Author X's Guide to Self Editing...