Vauxhall Vixens

(Picture from LOLCats)In the U.S. news, there has been this recent development that mammograms aren't needed for women until you're 50. But right now the advisement is to still do what you're doing, because it's always been if you're 40, you go in and get a mammogram.Huh?Okay...

The Vixens know I've been a grumbling curmudgeon about the Internet lately. There's just so much out there---so many romance review sites, agent blogs, group blogs (ahem), author pages, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, ad infinitem. If you had 24 free hours in a day, you could still never keep up...

Avon and Caroline Linden are offering up a free giveaway of her novella "Deeper Than Desire" to readers. Caroline Linden is a great writer---I've glommed her books ever since I read her debut with Avon, and I'm very much looking forward to her soon-to-be release...

I was reading the Huffington Post on Saturday and came across their Twitterature contest. It was too fun not to share. Now, I have a Twitter account, but I tweet very infrequently---I'm nearly a mute bird. But I do lurk, where I pick up interesting links and publishing industry news...

I really have nothing to post today. I'm pulling out my hair trying to carve out time to work on my WIP with all the other stuff that's cutting into my days and nights...

I don't know when I first hear about you or North and South . . . but I do remember when I first watched the movie on Youtube.And then you came into view.You fit the description of most romance heroes.Tall. Dark...

Can I say how happy I am to see the rear end of October. The whole month was about interference. It was like the world was conspiring against me to accomplish any single worthy task: in writing, at work, in life...

Thanks again to Anna Campbell for blogging with us yesterday!!! We loved having you, and it was such a great discussion.Anna has so graciously chosen the prize winners...

Hiya Vixens!!!! You’re all looking terrifically foxy today. But then, don’t you always?I always love visiting you girls when I’ve got a book out. I love visiting you when I haven’t got a book out! Perhaps I should start up a rival blog called Visiting Vauxhall Vixens? Or per...

I was very lucky this weekend to be able to take part in a getaway with a few other authors from my RWA Chapter. We rented a really nice little suite at a ski chalet in Collingwood...

I love and I hate beginnings. I love figuring out the setting (as I blogged about last month), I love figuring out my characters. Love seeing them grow on the page and reveal their desires and fears in life. Love their romance to develop and grow. But beginnings can be tough...

We're expecting an addition to our family soon (no, it's definitely not me), so I've been thinking quite a bit about the joys and struggles of family life. My grandmothers each came from massive families---my Viennese grandmother was one of 17 (!!!) children, my American grandmother one of 8...

Arghhhhh!I broke the seal. Everything was going so well. The WIP was coming along nicely, with me humming and smiling at my own most awesome brilliance. But then I stopped. Last week was a bad week--somebody died, kiddo got sick, we left to go away for the long weekend--and now I'm stuck...