This past weekend I started a thread on a familiar topic…reviews. I genuinely wanted to understand the difference between a performance evaluation and an evaluation of a book. Since my day job is as a Human Resources executive there are clear guidelines regarding feedback: praise in public and correct in private. One response that made perfect… Read More Book Reviews – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly…

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve participated in threads on covers, editing your work, overused descriptions, and the perception that writers need to apologize for not meeting every single reader’s unique taste in fiction. Personally, I love the dialogue. I think it stems from my upbringing and the encouragement of healthy debate at the dinner… Read More Covers and More…

What the heck?  What do adaptability and humor have in common? Over the past two days I’ve been embroiled in the opportunity to learn and network with my colleagues in the healthcare human resources profession. It’s a great group of people because despite the normal perception of human resource professionals, when you get us away… Read More Adaptabiliy and Humor

Over the past couple of days I’ve been contributing to two different threads about a familiar topic, lesbian fiction and the subtle or not so subtle pressure to make everything about romance or love. We hear it all the time from publishers, speakers, and the actual research data that Michelle Hagans so generously shared with us… Read More Romancing the Reader…

As I cogitated (Gosh I love that word) over what I would explore as my topic for my weekly blog, I became increasingly distracted by ironically the idea of writer distractions. I’d had a fair number of them over the past week. Originally, I wanted to talk about the question that came forth on The… Read More Writer’s Distractions