Booksquare

Despite the open invitation to blog whenever I felt the need - it’s been awhile. After the near frantic pace of my release date month, I really needed to take a bit of time to catch up on things. E-mail, housecleaning, actual writing. Okay, not really the cleaning.
My husband has been [...]

One of my romance writer friends was recently told to get a more glamorous picture. Readers expected a little more from romance authors.
Well crap - no one ever told me this. There are now expectations that I be glam? I have really missed the mark. Especially since I make it a [...]

I found the exception to the rule - the rule where even bad football is still good football. Well, last night bad football was bad football. Got to hand it to USC - they played a practically flawless game and my beloved Sooners…they’re still my beloved Sooners.
I call Booksquare at half-time. “Oh, [...]

I’ve been told writers are more creative when they write in longhand than at the computer - the whole left brain/right brain theory. I’m a computer writer. While I take a notebook with me and spend my down time using a pen and paper, I write much faster at the computer. Which [...]

Try as I might, I have not found any other way to get actual recorded written words than by sitting down and writing them. Someone once coined the phrase BIC-HOK (butt in chair - hands on keyboard). A painful, yet true sentiment.
For me, tackling a manuscript best works very early in [...]

December, the last day of the month, the last day of the year. This also marks the last day my books are officially on the bookshelves - just 21 trips to Wal-Mart and Target later Tomorrow my book will reside only on the cyber bookshelves.
The time has flown! I want [...]

I know that I had a point when I wrote this blog last week. However, I started coming down with strep throat, thanks to my oldest. I haven’t had strep since high school, when it knocked out the senior class for several days. Then the doc gave you a shot the consistency [...]

Bill wrote in the comments section earlier this week:

BTW, Jill, you do all this work for the site, but I don’t see any links to your romance novels? Can’t you at least get some publicity out of this site?
I can’t believe it, but I haven’t posted a single link on how to purchase my book, [...]

After that first initial barrage of questions I received after getting “The Call” I was asked about a website. Okay, talk about panic. What’s a gal with little money, and even less amounts of website creativity to do?The first thing I did was use the free resources at my disposal. Since I [...]

When it comes to promotion, I have become basically a follower. Most all romance writers have a website. I have a website. Most all romance authors do a contest. I’m having a contest. A lot of romance writers have a yahoo e-mail loop - I have a yahoo e-mail loop. [...]