Xandra | February 16, 2010
I was overjoyed to receive the news that Jolly Rogered received a 4.5-star, Top Pick review from Vallerianna over at Night Owl Romance! It made me squee to see that someone else loved Nigel as much as I do. It’s easy for a writer to become obsessed about finding reviews–it can really kill your writing [...]
Xandra | February 12, 2010
In the past seven days, we’ve had about eight inches of snow dumped on us. No, we’re not nearly as bad as the eastern seaboard and their “Snowmageddon” (or is it “Snowpocalypse”?), but we’ve had our share. And I’ve done my share in shoveling it, molding it, sliding around on it, and driving in it. [...]
Xandra | February 2, 2010
I’ve blogged before about Harlequin’s decision to include a vanity arm in order to monetize the slush pile. Suffice it to say that any situation where you pay for the privilege of only getting half the money from the sale of something you’ve created and paid all the money to create is only even remotely [...]
Xandra | January 29, 2010
I confess that I am one of those people that literally loathes schedules. My mother is sort of a martinet when it comes to scheduling, and bless her heart for it, ran my household with an iron alarm clock while I was growing up. As a result, I decided to reinvent the wheel when I [...]
Xandra | January 29, 2010
Yeah, you knew the pic was coming with a title like that. But Jack Sparrow has a point, yanno? Any pirate worth his salt has to be able to taste which way the wind is blowing. The same goes for writers. The minute you press “Publish” on your first blog post, or the minute you [...]
Xandra | January 22, 2010
Random pages on Wikipedia are dangerous things. My latest random visit took me to the entry on the Vox Humana (I was actually trying to remember the latin quote “Vox populi, vox Dei” – the voice of the people is the voice of God, but I digress). Turns out the Vox Humana is actually a [...]
Xandra | January 22, 2010
Every author writes because he or she has something to say to the world. That message may be as small as “chocolate birthday cake is the world’s most perfect food” or as large as “can’t we all just get along…to survive the zombie apocalypse” but it’s that message that keeps us going through recalcitrant characters, [...]
Xandra | January 15, 2010
It snowed last week. A wonderful, white blizzard of unique and precious snowflakes and a delicious kind of cold that only comes with snow. And I didn’t write, because I have small children who like snowballs. But I did think a lot about accumulation, especially as I was pushing it off the front porch. [...]
Xandra | January 9, 2010
New Year’s Resolutions are a crapshoot. Everybody’s enthusiastic in January, until about the 18th hits and the post-holiday boredom sets in. That’s about the time the exercise machine starts becoming a clothes hanger, the shiny toys have run out of batteries/been stepped on/the teeny-tiny little pieces have been vacuumed up, and the leftovers have all [...]
Xandra | November 25, 2009
Epublishing’s terrain favors the light and the quick. Large, lumbering organizations that are unable to turn on a dime or pinpoint a trending subject will be lagging. Not that there aren’t advantages about playing it safe, but if the music industry has shown us anything, it’s that consumable entertainment–music, games, web shows, media including stories–needs [...]
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