February 2012
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“Brethren before harlots.”
– Unofficial Hellraisers motto
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January 2012
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They should just call it Downbeat Abbey
Good Lord.
“It’s either a really expensive cheese, or a dead body.”
– Nico Rosso, on a mysterious smell in our apartment building
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“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed;
but the...”
– (Charlotte Brontë, Shirley)
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thedisgruntledgradstudent said:
You would be. Also, I have a bajillion recommendations for you for where to eat and such!
Yes, please! For most of the trip, we’ll be with a trekking group, but we’ll have a few days bookending the trip on our own. I’ve never...
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thehighshelf replied to your photo: I believe these are the winning pair. Born boots…
Can I be a nag and suggest over priced sporto socks that wick? And carry an extra pair to change into half way through the day. HAVE FUN!
Don’t worry about socks! My husband has a mania for buying me performance socks. I’m seriously not kidding. I have dozens of socks from sundry outfitter...
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hummeline answered your question: Crowdsourcing!
Merrell and Børn both make great comfy cute shoes
I love Born boots, and they’re very comfortable! I’ll check out their shoe offerings.
loreliebrown answered your question: Crowdsourcing!
Just don’t wear running/trainer type shoes. They will judge you.
Duly noted. You can always tell the tourists by their sneakers and fanny...
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femmeanime answered your question: Crowdsourcing!
AllStars are pretty comfy, but you’ll need an insole. If your planning rough terrain and not city exploring, probably not.
These shoes will be for city exploring. I have hiking books for the rough terrain trekking we’ll be doing.
missworded answered: ...
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Crowdsourcing!
I’m going to Italy in May (hooray!, but I need cute, comfortable shoes for lots and lots of walking. Most “comfort” shoes are pretty fug, but I will be on my feet for at least twelve hours a day. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Snippet Saturday: Something Odd
Today’s Snippet Saturday theme is “Something Odd.” Of all my characters, I can think of no one more odd than Catullus Graves. Catullus serves as the Blades of the Rose’s resident mechanical genius. Like members of the Graves family before him, Catullus designs and builds all the wonderful gadgets the Blades take out into the field.
Of course, mechanical geniuses are...
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My novel EARLY BRIGHT is now only $5 on Kindle! →
And if you have Amazon Prime, it’s FREE!
From the black jazz clubs on Central Avenue in Watts, to the tidy homes of the war widows he cons, Louis Greenberg lives life on the outside. No matter how charming and passionate he is, an outsider he will always be. He is white, a Jew, and that never goes away.
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“You’d think the very thought of a romance writer would bring a smile to people’s...”
– Remembrance (Jude Deveraux)
I cannot begin to tell you how much I agree with this. It infuriates me that there is a general conception that women are so moronic and infantile that they cannot separate fiction from reality, and that the reading of romance will somehow create the expectation that a...
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It's all lies
nicorosso:
High time we change the phrase from “Taken with a grain of salt” to “Taken with a grain of internet.”
Spin it
nicorosso:
What if we dropped a needle on the rings of Saturn and played it like a record?
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Writing Romance! →
Don’t forget—if you live in the Los Angeles area, on February 12 I’ll be teaching a class on Crafting the Perfect Romance! I’ll cover topics such as the business of romance writing, things every romance novel needs, and how to polish for submitting to agents and editors. See you there!
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