Poor Kaki Warner asked me how my teeth are feeling after last week’s root canal. She got an email with far more info than even my dentist would want to know about my teeth (that’s not an exaggeration; my dentist is British and isn’t all that interested in my teeth). It got me thinking about… Continue reading What teeth can tell you about a character
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Could you love a rake?
Sabrina Jeffries and Sue Grimshaw pose an interesting question over on Borders True Romance today: How do you feel about “real” rakehells in romance, and where would you draw the line? It got me thinking. Actually, it was a question I’d been pondering for awhile, but it’s been on my mind more since I finished… Continue reading Could you love a rake?
On foreignness
As I mentioned in my last post, my husband and I have been travelling around northern India for two weeks. It’s my first time being in this country, and I was really surprised by how much attention we’ve been getting just for being foreign-looking. On our first day in Delhi, we went to the Baha’i… Continue reading On foreignness
Crafty romance
A few weeks ago, bloggers Sarah and Jane discussed arts and crafts with readers at True Romance. I loved reading the discussion because I’m a crafty person myself and have recently been thinking that the only downside to writing is that it consumes all my quilting time. I’m glad to know I’m not the only… Continue reading Crafty romance
Three degrees of separation
Blythe Gifford, author of The Harlot’s Daughter and In the Master’s Bed, talks on Romance: B(u)y the Book about her surprise at discovering that she’d written a series. It made me realize how many series I read that are groups of three. I wonder if that’s because of a particular way our brains work (I… Continue reading Three degrees of separation