female writers

Thursday Midday Links: Female Writer Moves to Pen Name to Appeal to Men

Thursday Midday Links: Female Writer Moves to Pen Name to Appeal to Men

Scots crime writer Shona MacLean ‘killed off’ to appeal to men – Scotland – Scotsman.com – “SCOTTISH crime writer Shona MacLean has been forced to change her name – to S G MacLean – to make her novels more appealing to men.  The change follows the publication of three successful historical crime books under her(…)

REVIEW: Making a Scene by Trudy Doyle

REVIEW: Making a Scene by Trudy Doyle

Warning – this is an epic review. And by epic, I mean long. And also full of terms like “joy juice” “muff” and “spunk.” Dear Ms. Doyle: Thank you for sending me your book for review. I obviously have had some concerns about the quality of books that are being issued by Ravenous Romance given(…)

REVIEW:  Talk Me Down by Victoria Dahl

REVIEW: Talk Me Down by Victoria Dahl

Dear Ms. Dahl: I kept meaning to read your historical books. Janet aka Robin wrote a wonderful reivew of A Rake’s Guide to Pleasure but I always feel compelled to read the new books with my free time. When your contemporary landed on my doorstep, I thought that I would break my Victoria Dahl cherry(…)

REVIEW: Mr. Fix It by Crystal Hubbard

Dear Ms. Hubbard: When I first started this book, I thought it had a lot of promise. It featured a romance author heroine and had kind of an insider’s tone to the story which I thought romance readers would get a kick out of. But then it took a turn, a nose dive even, resulting(…)

What Would Tod Goldberg Do?

What Would Tod Goldberg Do?

more animals Last week, Jordan Summers and Kassia Kroszer engaged the romance community at Romancing the Blog in a debate over author blogs. Summers felt hamstrung, in the past, about voicing strong opinions, particularly political ones, for fear of losing readers. Kroszer argued against the milquetoast bloggers. One response that I saw and have seen(…)