Cruising at Last – In Deep Waters
In Deep Waters: Cruising the Seas is launched! Readers cleaned out the bookstores in Provincetown during Women’s Week, and it was great to sign books and meet so many new women! Read More
Women’s Week 2007
Ithappens every fall. Women leave the last remnants of summer for the chance of a nor’easter to go to Provincetown for Women’s Week. Why? Well, if you have to ask, you haven’t been. Read More
Why don’t you write fanfic?
I have to admit one of the most daunting things about fanfic for me, as an undertaking, is the reality that the readers would know more about the subject than I did. Some of the earliest fanfic I read was in print Star Trek novels and I was among those who knew classic Trek episodes line by line. (Oh where oh where has that part of my brain gone?) When I found errors in the books I was irate! How could anyone make such a glaring mistake when it was obvious in episode 23 that…blah blah blah. Read More
Dialogue and Sex and Curious Readers
How much talking should there be in a sex scene?
If the characters are talking about their grocery lists during sex they’re either an old married couple multi-tasking or somebody isn’t having a good time. In both cases the dialogue says something about the characters, and I am a big believer that sex should illuminate the characters first and foremost, and it’s really nifty if it furthers at least one or more of the other key elements of the story, like the plot or setting. Read More