kate rothwell

The horror the horror! I'm reading it all over the internet (in places like Bam's beautiful blog**) and it is just silly. All of the sudden people are scared to death of teenaged sex and teenaged love. It's as if TS is a newly discovered disease and we have to do all we can to stamp out the insidious, horrible thing. Excuse me? As the mother of teenagers, I'm not ready for them to be boffing anyone. But: 1. It hardly matters if I'm ready or not. 2. What's the deal with acting as if it were gross? (I mean honestly, don't you guys remember--that's PARENTS having sex that's gross.) Underage sex has been around since long before Romeo and Juliet and the whole idea that it's Unnatural is going to get more than the teens in trouble. The entire society is going to suffer. It's not so much discouraging sex that I hate. That's fine with me as long as people encourage sublimation, masturbation, keeping them busy or other constructive methods. B...

Just got a note from the ex-agent. The Spanish rights are sold. So that's Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. I wonder why the books appeals to those particular groups? Interesting.

I swear it takes a long hard cry and then a Barbara Metzger. No one can do it like Barbara Metzger and I wish someone would give her a contract that let her do it in her best style (trad regency) Heck, I need them to let her play with the language again. Cath, I wish I'd kept better touch but I will. Though honestly, you might not want me in person. In the Victorian novels they clasp hands and weep and turn pale and maybe swoon. I race to the nearest bathroom--or moan about it.

I'm supposed to chat somewhere online in a half an hour (yes, another chat. I'm an attention whore plus masochist. [ note to self: There has to be an EC in there somewhere .]) And I have no idea where to find it. I tried googling without a lot of luck. I love romances and more, Gia's note said. I did find this http://www.loveromancesandmore.com/ ** but there's no sign of a chatty place. Hmmm. UPDATED: It might be here. If this is it, might be tough because yahoo's been so horrible lately. I see Bonnie Dee's been by to chat. Not bad! Hey what is with yahoo? Why is it so sucky? UPDATED 2: TOMORROW. The thing is tomorrow. January 28. Sunday. Right. Never mind. ______ ** you think I'd remember them--they gave me a Golden Rose award a couple of years go. Ingrate Kate. Please join me for a chat (yes, another chat, but it's the last one, I swear) at this message board, Sunday Morning 1/28, at 11 a.m., yahoo willing.** ** I know, I know. Tacky. Does it cou...

and I would like to direct your attention to the wonderful new system for bookstores in the comments section . I think Sam and I will share the patent on this one. But I get more money because she wasn't serious. Forgot a couple Book of My Hands=crafts Book of My stomach=cookbooks. Wonder where the mystery/thrillers would be filed? Updated: Come on kids, play along at home! Raise and/or settle questions like: "Would the book of my blood be a search for a person's ancestors ( Roots would be filed there) or where we'd find Anne Rice's work?"

This is me in the newspaper. Wasn't I the cutest thing in the world? I believe I thought so. Wild that they put in our address. Just shows that I'm very, very old and from a very, very different era. and this is me older. Awww. My auntie took that picture I don't have a punchline. Just wandering around my computer trying to clean things up. Margaret's doing far better. She's awake again. I wonder how many people will wander over here because of the "hot pix" title. Heh.

I just finished writing another book that I don't think my agent wants. It doesn't fit any particular group (maybe Nocturne? On an off day?). I don't do the book of my heart thing, but I keep having these books that refuse to go away. Not really books of my heart, more like books of my liver (BoML). We're not talking passionate longing to write a masterpiece. This is a matter of detoxing the system so maybe I can get a happy, fun historical or a smutty romp that'll sell. I don't think the BoML are precious important works of art. I don't think they're any better than my usual sit-down-and-come-up-with-something-on-deadline sort of writing. In fact, I suspect they're worse. They're simply noisier than the other books. There's still one lingering and it's the dopiest of them all. I can't figure out how to get the whole thing to work, but it won't go away. Usually the only way to figure these things out is to write them down, so I...