Neuroscientists have found that watching films has a powerful psychological and physical effect - we can actually feel a character’s pain in our own muscles. I say that romance novels also elicit the same kind of feelings in the reader and I say they’re more satisfying because we get to visualize and live along […]

Thank God it’s Monday.
Weekends are killing me.
This is how weekends went when I was a kid:
· Sleep late;
· Watch cartoons (Land of the Lost, anyone?);
· Help clean the house;
· […]

I’ve been reading Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files books lately. But slowly. One at a time. Pausing in between books and making myself wait for at least a week before I dash off to the bookstore and buy the next. Oh, my God, they’re just like Doritos! Or is it Pringles? Anyway, you can’t read just […]

I recently added a playlist to myspace page. I named it if Vivi was a soundtrack…
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
I Love Myself Today - Bif Naked
Bye Bye Boyfriend - Fefe Dobson
Pretty Life - Jakalope
Wild Horses - The Sundays
Troy - Sinead O’Connor
You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette
Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Bauhaus
Flower Duet - Charlotte Church
You […]

My best friend and beta reader just gave me her feedback on my latest manuscript, a dystopian superhero novel. (Heroes, villains, vigilantes, romance…and explosions. Who doesn’t like explosions?) She loved the concept and the fundamental story, and she had some utterly fabulous feedback for me to consider. But one comment she made really resonated: She […]

Look to this day:
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence;             

 
The bliss of growth                  
The glory of action                       
The splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And […]

In the past week I’ve read two separate articles — one in a lifestyle magazine, one in a women’s magazine — about a growing trend toward fast-track relationships. By fast-track, I’m talking a marriage proposal after a handful of dates and a wedding within months.
Neither magazine quoted statistics, just noted the trend and […]