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And just because I need a break from the weather :-): The Harlequin lovebirds are going to be parents. Quest — one half of a pair of rare peregrine falcons, who fell in love on a ledge across from the headquarters of the largest producer of romance novels in the world — laid her first egg Tuesday afternoon. Burnt orange and speckled, it was spotted by the executive assistant to Harlequin’s CEO. Employees at their offices in North York set up telescopes to watch over the birds last week. “Delight and hysteria!” said CEO Donna Hayes of the mood. The avid bird watcher was theRead More →

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Because I want to focus more on the older books in my collection here on the site plus play around with some other collectible not-necessarily book stuff, I’ve decided to use Goodreads to keep track of what I’m currently reading on a day-to-day basis.  Yeah, I know, it sounds counter-intuitive but, trust me, it’s not. One of the reasons I took such a long break from blogging this last year was that I honestly hate, um, blogging. Well, actually, anything resembling keeping a diary and I’d been attempting to maintain a site like this for over ten years, well before blogging even existed. It wasn’tRead More →

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I found this today on the blog of the man who basically wrote the definition of what fan fiction is: And yes, I know what Fillion’s worried about — he’s worried about seeing something like what has happened to House this season. But the problem with House is not that House and Cuddy are in a relationship. The problem is that the writers do not have a clue how to depict a relationship between House and Cuddy in a way which shows any kind of emotional maturity, any kind of psychological depth, and any kind of personal growth. I often suspect that Hollywood’s inability toRead More →

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I had some time today and decided to do some work on the site. I think I like the new theme. A lot. It’s soothing soft focus and, oh, yeah, the background picture is a snapshot of “my books” or at least a section of my bookshelves in my bedroom. 😉 I’ve been wanting to do that for a long time and amazingly it didn’t take me all that long to find a theme I could insert it easily into. I would’ve done this a week or so ago but ran into a slight problem. Nothing major, just an annoying time drain that kept distractingRead More →

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He’s the newest addition to our family, a smallish-sized pit bull mix we fondly call Bruno. (More on the significance of the name in a bit.) It’s possible he may be a future guest contributor to the blog if all goes well. Hey, he likes a good yarn, particularly if they’re action-oriented but he also has a soft spot for the mushy stuff, too, so we’re a good match. ;-). Here’s the thing, last year, we lost not one, but three long-time pets, two cats and a dog, all from old age. We still had two cats in the house both in their prime, so we weren’t activelyRead More →

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One of the things I’ve been giving a lot of thought to lately is the fact that so many longtime readers/collectors don’t get a voice on the web and if we don’t talk to them we may lose what they know and remember about the books. Couple that with authors who have disappeared from the scene and there’s a lot of stuff out there that’s going to disappear. So, I’ve been thinking about how to contact people who aren’t necessarily on the web and talk to them. Then something unreal happened just this weekend. Out of the blue, I got an email from one ofRead More →

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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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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 →