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No, Google, I do not mean “fabulous”.

No, Google, I do not mean “fabulous”.

It’s not often I come across a word I can’t find the meaning of in any of my dictionaries — not that I have a bookcase full of dictionaries or anything. But I do have...
It’s raining heroes!

It’s raining heroes!

Hi all, Our Writers Gone Wild “We Give Great Hero” Tour has started off with a bang and we’re already up to Day 4…. It really is raining heroes *VBG* Here’s...
Writers Gone Wild give great hero!

Writers Gone Wild give great hero!

**NEWSFLASH** Hot of the press from Wild Woman Gail over at the Writers Gone Wild blog: Introducing… The Writers Gone Wild “We Give Great Hero!” tour What makes a...
Lost in translation

Lost in translation

Many years ago, shortly after I got heavily into romance and was buying heaps of US-published books, I read the phrase, “He patted her on the fanny.” It wasn’t the...
She has to be “liked”

She has to be “liked”

Just so’s you know, the title of this post is a nod to Jenny Morris’s 1989 song “She Has To Be Loved” from her album Shiver: Personally I preferred the original...
A demonically good read

A demonically good read

Have you ever read the first book in a series and loved it to bits? Only to then be a little bit disappointed with the second book? Well, no worries about that with The Demon’s...
The case of the disappearing ‘dis’

The case of the disappearing ‘dis’

When I first met DH, he owned just about every Robert Heinlein book ever written. Being a huge fan of fantasy and lighter SciFi at the time, I dived right in. Bliss! What I love about...

Ouch! Even Jane’s not safe.

This just came through on one of the writing loops I belong to: Mark Twain on Jane Austen (1898) “I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except...