December 2011
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Your Favourite Authors & How to Support Them!... →
Yes! What she said! To this, I can only add thanks to those who have supported my writing in so many ways. People I don’t even know have reblogged and retweeted my announcements of book releases and promotions for no reason but to help spread the news. It has been such an encouragement! So, yes, please continue to support your favorite authors. We appreciate you!
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Depp, Hayek in Spanish-Language Pancho Villa Movie →
I would have cast him as Emiliano Zapata, but no one asked me.
Emir Kusturica will start shooting a film about the life of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa on Feb. 15, 2011.
“Wild Roses, Tender Roses,” set to shoot in Spanish, will star Johnny Depp and Salma Hayek. It will shoot in Spain and at Kusturica’s Kustendorf studio in Serbia.
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Performer Hurt In Fall During 'Faust' At Met Opera →
Reader, I was there!
There was a loud banging and clanging. The orchestra stopped playing. Rene Pape turned toward the audience (perhaps speaking to the prompter?), and said “Curtain.” Awkward pause. “Curtain.” (He might have actually said “Close the curtain.”) The curtain did, indeed, close. A cryptic announcement came on instructing us to remain in our...
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“Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens laments lost art of romance”
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Dan Stevens as Matthew Crawley and Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Photo: ITV
The heart-throb of the period drama has complained that love today was more likely to be a case of “quick speed-date, straight in the sack, game over”.
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Men tend to overestimate their chances of winning... →
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Romance novelist gives $500,000 to local Salvation... →
I never tire of hearing about good things people do for others.
The author, a Washington native who spends part of the year in Port Orchard, wanted the gift to be anonymous. But her spokeswoman confirmed to the Kitsap Sun that Macomber had made the donation.
Macomber’s spokeswoman told seattlepi.com that the author didn’t want any notice.
“It’s almost like a religious...
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Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens joins 2012 Booker... →
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History Crushes
I’ll see your Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and I’ll raise you one young Johannes Brahms. (Sadly, in his later years, he took No Shave November to the extreme.)
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
I don’t have many music crushes, but this is one of the few. Tchaikovsky is best known for his three ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The...
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Ildebrando D'Arcangelo...is a reluctant hunk →
…[T]he bass-baritone singer projects a swaggering confidence and dangerous sex appeal that act like a powerful audience magnet….
The 41-year-old D’Arcangelo…has garnered fans around the world as much for his voice as for his model looks — tall, dark and handsome in an earthy way.
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THANK YOU!
Yesterday morning, I posted once (once!) that ANA MARTIN would be part of an Amazon KDP Select promo for that one day. I got busy at work and came home to discover that it had shot up to #9 on the Bestseller list for Free Historical Romances. I was stunned. I still am, and I’m deeply appreciative.
Enjoy your reading with my humble thanks. Oh—and I made you some brownies.
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Nathan Fillion on Twitter This Week: Bromance,... →
Exactly! <dabbing a tear>
“One of the reasons I love tuna sandwiches is how much you don’t have to chew. Just swish ‘em around and gulp. Then find a mint.”
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No books were harmed in the making of this tree. →
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BBC News - 'New' Jane Austen portrait unearthed by... →
The pencil drawing on vellum is inscribed “Miss Jane Austin” on the back. Byrne insists that “apart from the striking family resemblance”, this was the first clue as to the identity of the sitter.
Well, I’m no super sleuth, but I’d call that a pretty damn decent clue.
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Jane Austen: Newly discovered sketch could be lost... →
Personally, I intend only to authorize idealised portraits of myself for posterity. But didn’t this free Sephora makeover do wonders for Jane? And that salmon lip rouge? Awesome!
Fact or fiction? A supposedly idealised portrait of the author
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The Rise of the Cowboy Romance Novel →
I think they miss the key element here: Cowboys look great in Wranglers.
But why cowboys, we asked romance maven Sarah Wendell, author of Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels, and cofounder of SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com, a top romance blog. “Cowboys have been a perennial part of romance, in terms of romantic archetypes,” says Wendell. “One of the reasons they’re a...
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EBooks sales to triple to $9.3 billion by 2016 →
Juniper Research released a new report Thursday, called “Mobile Publishing: eBooks, eMagazines & eNewspapers for Smart Devices,” estimating that eBook sales would hit $9.3 billion in 2016 as compared to this year’s $3.2 billion.
Folks, that’s a lot of eBooks.
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Editor seeks out heartbreaking stories →
Proof that there is good in the world:
BEIJING - After 15 years as a journalist, Zhang Danuo knows a good story when he sees one. Now he’s using that skill to change people’s lives.
Since the mid-1990s, he has been offering his services free to disabled people who want to write about their experiences.
“I want children with all kinds of disabilities to be able to read ...
