How To Request Your Local Library Order a Book
Note: While we are librarians, we are not a library. Specifically, we're not your library. Please do not request that we order books for...
We’re Proud to Write Romance
Long ranty post ahead based off of some comments we’ve received lately from some of our family and other people who know us in real life....
Randomization and You
How to ask the right questions, know when to roll the dice, and decide when to invoke the word of God One of the problems that writers...
A rant on entitled fanfic readers…
In the last 3 days, I’ve gotten a bunch of PMs (from more than one account) on FF.net demanding I update one of my fanfics. With each PM,...
Short Stories vs. Longer Works
Anonymous asked: I wrote a short story a couple of weeks ago that I think really stands well on its own, but I normally stick with...
How Line Editing Can Make Your Story Stronger – From a Line Editor
Hi everyone! If you follow this blog and read our book reviews then you know a lot of times one of our big complaints is the story could...
Twelve Angry Men: The Recast
Today in, OMG I NEED A BREAK FROM EDITING!, we got to talking about Twelve Angry Men and how you could update it for today’s times as...
Overdrive and Libraries
Anonymous asked: hey I saw your thing about not being able to afford books and/ or get to the library, and I have some similar problems....
Clean/Sweet Romance
standard-ang3l asked: Mary Jo Putney for the ask thing! Mary Jo Putney: Position on the “calling romances without sex ‘clean’ or ‘sweet’...
Terrible Tropes
vampirechilled asked: Alyssa Cole and Abigail Barnette for the ask meme Ohhhh going for the fun ones… okay. I can do this. Alyssa Cole:...
On Rape Culture
Pssst… Fiction writers of the world, let me let you in on a little dose of truth. Your female characters don’t owe your male characters...