Janine: In our last conversation post we discussed anachronisms. Some of the offshoots in our discussion were enjoyable so we hope that you will like them too. Here they are: Author’s Notes Jayne: If you don’t realize something is wrong or you couldn’t care less about it, does ... more >
#MeToo Has Forced Me to Admit I’m a Romance Novelist Who’s Having Bad Sex – Thoughtful post from Andie J. Christopher, who confronts the gap between the sex she has in real life and the sex she writes about in Romance fiction. She said that the gap didn’t really bother ... more >
Writing for the Awl Was the Best Mid-Career Decision I Ever Made – So you’ve probably heard that the Awl and the Hairpin are both shutting down. There have been a number of pieces on the Awl, especially, and its impact on writing and publishing and all sorts of other ... more >
KU Scammers on Amazon – What’s Going On? – So remember when Kindle Unlimited was populated by a bunch of really short books, and Amazon changed the payout terms to number of pages read, not number of books? Well, keep in mind that authors are paid from a communal trough of ... more >
The Hong Kong Bookseller Who’s Keeping ‘Banned’ Books On His Shelves – Despite the disappearance (and in a couple of cases, reappearance in mainland police custody) of five bookseller/publishers, some Hong Kong booksellers, including People’s Bookstore owner Peter Tang, are keeping mainland-banned titles on their shelves. It appears to be publishers ... more >
On Sex in Fiction – So let’s start with the good. Yes, it’s another one of those author-written semi-promotional pieces, but it also happens to be a nice little companion piece to the several pieces on writing sex we’ve been discussing in recent news posts (and I can’t remember the last ... more >