WTF Wednesday: Only Writers Should Review Books
By now, you’ve probably heard about author Alice Hoffman’s unseemly outbursts on Twitter in response to a less-than-glowing review of her latest novel by Roberta Silman for the Boston Globe. If you...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: How Much Honesty Is Too Much?
From authors, I mean. How much do you want authors to say about the trials and tribulations of writing and publication? I’m actually not 100% sure this fits under the heading of “WTF Wednesday” quite...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: What’s an Author to Do…?
…when it appears her book is sinking like a lead zeppelin? Okay, I actually don’t have any hard and fast data on how Behind the Red Door is selling. I don’t have a subscription to Bookscan, so I can’t...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: Erotic Romance is NOT a Subgenre
A few months ago, I entered an RWA chapter contest that permitted entries from both published and unpublished authors, provided the manuscript itself was not published. (No, I’m not going to tell you...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: What Is It With Dark?
My dear friend and CP, Amie Stuart, received a rejection today from a major publishing house on a “dark” paranormal. The editor’s reason for rejecting it? The tone felt “too light” for her tastes. Now,...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: Ten Things I Hate About You
My maudlin little post yesterday about knowing when to throw in the towel (I still don’t know when that is, lol) garnered this response from an author who’d like to remain anonymous (for reasons I’m...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: Touchy, Aren’t We?
I’m not the only person to notice and comment on this by a long shot, and I’m sure I won’t be the last (in fact, I think there’s a report on the topic on this afternoon’s All Things Considered on NPR),...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: The Only Honest Reviews Cost the Reviewer Money
Yes, yes, I know it’s only Monday. But sometimes, WTF Wednesday comes early. Think of it as like Christmas in July :). This week’s early WTF Wednesday is brought to you by the FTC (Federal Trade...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: Enough Rubbernecking, Already!
This is one of those posts in which I’m going to rail against a phenomenon while engaging in said phenomenon. Yeah, I know, hypocritical, but I don’t know how to express my annoyance with this cultural...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: Diversity, Where Art Thou?
Yesterday, Dear Author posted an anonymous guest post on the subject of cultural appropriation. In it, the writer lamented the dearth of non-white protagonists in romance, and the tendency for those...
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