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The Dark Side

Raine — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:27:43 +0000

After years of watching movies and television, I made an observation that clever writers and directors have probably instinctively known since the dawn of—well, writing and directing. The best bad guys are the ones we always thought of as good ones. Billy Wilder used this idea long ago when he filmed Agatha Christie’s “Witness for [...]

Unfortunate Things

cece — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:15:54 +0000

Dear Gentle Readers, Our lovely Tanya is out sick today so please send her some healing vibes so she’ll get well soon! Dear Unfortunate Young Man Walking Down The Road, Can we talk? We need to talk. And please know I don’t tell you this to be cruel or hurt your feelings. On the contrary, I have nothing [...]

Trudging along

Dennie ~ — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:58:12 +0000

So I spoke about my dry spell last month. I don’t know what drew me into it (but I can tell you I knew it was going to happen–I felt it creeping up on me but was powerless to stop it–which sounds silly to non-writers, but whatever… ). I do know what specifically dragged me out; one [...]

Mish Mash Rehash

cece — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:14:18 +0000

A question from Tanya’s post of last week: Where have all the negroes gone? I mean, where are all the black readers who should be complaining about the lack of variety in their reading material? It’s category or serious (see: Depressing) fiction and not much in between. It’s another self-fulfilling prophecy. Can readers effect change via complaining [...]

Nice.

Raine — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:58:18 +0000

I have an old friend, a gentleman who shall remain nameless, who paints fine art. I suppose they might be called abstracts (although he wouldn’t say so), and he’s had several lucrative sales and exhibited in quite a few galleries in the area. There are lots of things you can say to this guy about [...]

Never hit a guy with glasses. Always use your fists.

Tanya — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:45 +0000

Busy week. Lot’s of house cleaning, reading, critiquing and writing. Not much else to say, so let’s get down to business. Ten topics below. Ignore what you don’t want to read, respond to what interests you. Or, make up your own topic. ================================ 1. WHITE-WASHING PART IV An excellent post by Thea over at Booksmugglers (read [...]

Too Much of a Good Thing

Vanessa Jaye — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:00:27 +0000

On the weekend, I finally got around to watching Final Destination 3. I love this movie franchise; it delivers scares as well as laughs via the creative and outlandish deaths, and it’s so cheesy Velveeta should have product placement in every scene. But this final (heh) entry into the oeuvre? Didn’t love it so much. God awful [...]

Do you have the stones?

Dennie ~ — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:13:32 +0000

Watching ROMANCING THE STONE Saturday, I can remember watching it as a pre-teen and it made my heart pitter-pat in a way nothing up to that point had. I fell for Jack, wanted to be Joan Wilder and go on an adventure. I think it has as much to do with why I became a [...]

The Split Personalities Within

MelissaB — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:41:45 +0000

I’ve been blog hopping and many times I’ve had to step back and think about my answer. There seems to be a split in what Author Melissa thinks/feels and what the Reader Melissa thinks/feels. Sometimes the answers can be polar opposite of each other and I do, in fact, feel like two people. Are authors entitled [...]

Show of Hands?

Raine — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:00:31 +0000

When I first started in “the business”, I wasn’t really worried about getting an agent. I thought I was a fairly decent writer. Figured I could find one after the first book or two, maybe manage on my own, at least at the beginning. Uh-huh. Well, now I would very MUCH like to [...]