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Because she’s single-handedly managed to drag me kicking and screaming – okay, not exactly screaming but definitely reluctantly – out of my self-imposed hiatus with a recent post on a Jayne Ann Krentz book called Random Romance Sunday: Jungle Love. And even that probably wouldn’t have done it for me it I hadn’t already been mulling over the craziness of a recent purchase of mine. Here’s the thing, I’ve been seriously thinking lately on filling out my collection of Krentz’s backlist, all AKAs. Notice the word “collection” there. This isn’t so much a reader thing, as it is a collector thing, although I do love her current Jayne Castle books. Anyway, last week, I think itRead More →

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And it’s time to clean up the clutter that’s piled up while I’ve been taking some time off from blogging this summer. So, if you hear some pops and clanks or things kind of blink in and out over the next few days, just ignore the deranged woman behind the curtain muttering to herself about strangling, er, sweet talking tech geeks. I’m trying to add some social networking buttons to pages before I start posting again and they’re not appearing where I want them to. Or, like, at all. I may have to even change the blog template, which really makes me want to strangle someone. I likeRead More →

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Or maybe not. I’m still mulling it over. First off, I’ve had a lot going on lately but I have been reading and lurking here and there. One of the esoteric “there’s” that I allow my inner self are various design sites just for the sometimes inspiring, sometimes amusing but almost always “oh, wow” images that pop up. Just recently I ran across a brand new blog to check out along those lines: The Steampunk Home I believe that Steampunk is more than just brass and watchparts. It’s finding a way to combine the past and the future in an aesthetic pleasing yet still punkish way.Read More →

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A couple of weeks ago, Heather from The Galaxy Express approached me and asked if I’d be interested in participating in a round robin type feature on SF site discussing SF romances. I’ll be honest, I was kind of hesitant at first because I don’t read all that much science fiction. But I decided to at least think about it and give it a try. Final participants include Linnea Sinclair, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Angela James, Susan Grant, Michael Banks, B.B. Medos (me), Elizabeth Hand, Laurie Green, Lisa Paitz Spindler, Sasha Knight, Sandra McDonald–and, of course, Heather. This is what resulted. The topic? From Star Wars toRead More →

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In the spirit of spring cleaning, I did something today I’ve been thinking of doing for some time. I switched my Facebook account around to focus on a page specifically for Bev’s Books instead of the individual account and got a personal account in my real name, which I’m not sharing here. 😉 Yeah, I could’ve probably done all that with the account I already had but it was giving me fits attempting to do it, so, I finally just started all over from scratch. On the plus side it allowed me to clean up some stuff. Anyway, the links you may have won’t work anymore and this is my new Bev’sRead More →

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I’ve been out and about the last couple of days doing some errands and clean up of my own and haven’t been able to post. But I ran across this video regarding the situation in Nashville. It literally brought tears to my eyes. At the same time it’s very inspirational. I hope everyone who sees it spreads it around. The link at the end of the video takes you to an article entitled We Are Nashville at a site for supporters of the Nashville Predators that’s also very good.Read More →

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I saw this tweet earlier by Wendy: RT @avonbooks: RWA – Gaylord hotel update: they’re monitoring situation & will announce outcome as soon as they can http://bit.ly/dgNL6c Technically, we’re in western Kentucky, just over the border slightly northwest from Clarkville, Tennessee, but we got a lot of rain ourselves over the weekend. Not nearly as much as central Tennessee, though. They got roughly 2 feet in 2 days. So, yeah, it’s a bad situation pretty much all around Nashville right now. In fact, I feel like we’re living in an island of calm since there are counties both to the east and west of usRead More →

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Oh, get your minds out of the gutter. This is about comic books. 😉 I ran across this article the other day about the movie wars between Marvel and DC comics and who might be winning. Or who might not be. It was an interesting read. For one thing, I hadn’t realized just how many movies Marvel had put out. They have been seriously cranking them out. Something in particular, though, popped out at me and made me think of the oft-repeated discussions we romance readers have about the appeal of alpha vs. beta heroes. Now this is where I get myself into trouble. I was raisedRead More →

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I’ve been smiling over this one for days now and am still trying to wrap my head around the idea of a horse that weighed less than than both of my children at birth. Blink. Blink.Read More →

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(Quick update: The Superman Homepage website that I’ve linked to several times in this post is changing servers so the links may not work for a couple of days, which meant I had to load the image from another source but eventually the text links will work. I hope. If not I will tweak them in a day or so. ;-)) Would it sound totally crass and tacky of me to say that when I saw this picture of the original Lois Lane, Noel Neill, my eyes were immediately fixated on her belt buckle? Wow. Okay, so I’m a fan and a collector. I plead the fifth. OrRead More →

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I’m a firm believer in laughter as the best medicine. Which is why I subscribe to five different humor feeds, four of which are connected to the Cheeseburger Network, you know the people who brought us the Lolcats and went on from there. The one I get not connected to the Cheeseburger network, I follow almost as much to annoy my son as for the chuckles I get from the images. It’s Animals With Lightsabers. And, yeah, it’s about as crazy as it sounds. Sometimes it’s just dumb but other times it’s hilarious the situations people photoshop the lightsabers into. And then others are truly inspired. 😉 The Cheeseburger onesRead More →

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I don’t have much time this morning before some really bad weather is heading our way but I thought I’d take a few moments to list several of the changes I’ve made to the blog in the last few weeks as part of my reorganizing & simplification efforts this year. I’ve changed to a greatly streamlined theme with only one sidebar. This is major for me because I tend towards prefering themes that are full screen and fluid with sidebars on left and right but I fell in love with this Notepad theme when I ran across it recently. I have a thing for making listsRead More →

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I have The Phantom starring Billy Zane on video and rewatch it fairly regularly. I wouldn’t say I love it but it’s one of those movies I can watch to pass the time when there isn’t anything else on. What can I say? I’m addicted to superheroes. But I definitely got more than a chuckle out this: Don’t get me wrong, I have a major soft spot for this 1996 Billy Zane vehicle, based on the Lee Falk comic strip, but that says little about its quality. The reason this guy makes the list has less to do with his ham-fisted line delivery or dorkyRead More →

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A new Doctor Who begins tonight on BBC America played by Matt Smith. Well, technically, I think it’s already started in Britain several weeks ago but beggars can’t be choosers. 😉 Yeah, I’m now definitely hooked on this long running science fiction series. It all started around Christmas and New Years with the marathons they did as they were wrapping up the run of the last incarnation of the character played by David Tennant. I think I over indulged but I finally started to see the fascination so many have for this character and series. I mean, what we have here, basically is a character whoRead More →