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Evolution of Classic Gothic Romance into the 1980s Modern Gothic Romance Gothic romance is a genre you can't find all too easily today. It was a popular genre a few decades ago and lovers of this romance sub-genre will have to troll secondhand bookstores to find titles. Classics of this genre are novels such as Wuthering Heights and Scarlet Letter....
Review: Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark by Donna Lea Simpson I have a funny story with this book and by story I mean an epic fail. I was returning some books back to the library and somehow Lady Anne sneaked back with them. When I realized what I’d done it was as if I’d been amputated! So painful. Of...
Donna Lea Simpson on Gothic Romance I read a few gothic romances when I was much younger... you know, the kind with the cover that shows the girl running from a castle wearing a floaty dress. I keep getting, from readers and reviewers, that I write Gothic historicals, but I never set out to do...
Top 50 Romance Blogs, part 4 Today is part four of five in announcing the Top 50 Romance Novel Blogs. I hope you take the time to go to these blogs and see what they have to offer! And as always be sure to drop a comment and let me know if I've missed any of...
Clinched, Clutched, and Cliched in Romance Covers Publishers Weekly recently published an article on clinch covers. Since I've been running a segment on locating the next Fabio of romance novel models, I was immediately drawn to read the post. I was certain heaving bosoms, flowing hair, and orgasmic looks would be disclosed. I was pretty much right....
Celebrate with Harlequin - Free Books Harlequin is celebrating its 60th anniversary and as such they're giving away 16 books in ebook format for free which is quoted at a $60 value. There are 5 formats for each novel: pdf, Mobipocket, MS Reader, ePub, and eReader. The books come from all different lines and can be...
Top 50 Romance Novel Blogs to Watch in 2009 Romance, I can't get enough of it. I'm constantly surfing the internet subscribing and looking into new blogs geared toward romance novels and the genre. I've compiled a list of fifty blogs that I think readers and authors of romance should watch this year. In this list there are group...-
Top 50 Romance Blogs, part 2 It's a tough job but somebody had to do it! This is part two of five for the Top 50 Romance Blog list. Big names and small names and all in between compose the list. Be sure to leave a comment and direct me to any blogs you think I...
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Top 50 Romance Blogs, part 3 It's past midnight - that makes it the next day right? I just couldn't wait to share these amazing blogs! Get your pointer fingers ready to click on some great sites. I fully expect you to spend a few hours getting sucked into their blog posts. Don't forget to bookmark!...
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Top 50 Romance Blogs, part 5 We made it! The final 10 blogs! This concludes the series of posts for the Top 50 Romance Novel Blogs to Watch in 2009. Now we're not all done... oh no... there's one more post. This post will share with you all the reader recommended blogs that weren't included in...
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Invisible Man Photo shoot for cover. Model shot stationary in distance with moving passerby ignoring him against a street setting as in book svgallery=invisible_1 Cropped for size of Penguin Modern Classic book covers (19cm x 12cm) svgallery=invisible_2 Selected image and processed image svgallery=invisible_3 Final cover made to match series using InDesign .flickr-photo...- PF Blog Spotlight - Poorer Than You One of the most entertaining blogs I've encountered is from Stephanie, of Poorer Than You. She's an interesting writer, with a unique perspective as a young woman finishing school and facing plenty of educational debt. She seems like a strong, fascinating person, and it's nice to have her perspective out...
- "The Finish Rich Dictionary" review I have to say that I love The Finish Rich Dictionary by David Bach. Now I haven't read the entire thing yet (it's not meant to be read cover to cover at all) but I can tell that it's going to be something I refer to again and again. I've...
- "How to go to College Almost For Free" review As you might guess, How to Go to College Almost for Free is a book about winning scholarships. Its author, Ben Kaplan, won nearly $90,000 in scholarships to use for college. I ran across this book in the library, and thought that there was no time like the present to...
- Remove temptation Where I work, I pass by THREE candy dishes on the way two and from my desk. How much candy do I eat each day? Generally 2 pieces. The funny thing about that is that I don't even like candy all that much. I mean, it tastes good, but more...
- An American Hedge Fund I finally had a chance to read An American Hedge Fund by Timothy Sykes. To give you some perspective on where I was coming from, I didn't even know what a hedge fund was when I was sent the book. (Wikipedia defines it as "a private investment fund that charges...
- Surprised at the staunch defense of student loans I was surprised at the staunch defense of student loans in the comments on a previous post. Here's where I'm coming from. I got a $10,000 scholarship my senior year of high school that I could use anywhere. Back in 1986, $10,000 was a lot. But it would pay for...
- Marketing Free Recommendations So…. You want to be a marketer? Forget everything you’ve heard before! In this article, I’m not going to give you some airy-fairy theory about what should work if everything clicks the way I think it should. That’s the kind of rubbish you can read in any one of a...
- Desktop Author 5.2.14 Desktop Author is an electronic publishing software that allows you to create 3d page turning digital web books. Digital web books are any type of e-publication including e-brochures, e-books, digital photo albums, e-cards, digital diaries, online resumes, quizzes, exams, tests, forms and surveys . For more information visit this page....
- Leveraging your Blog with Paid Content Most personal finance bloggers make money from their sites through advertising. The current next big thing in making money online is to develop paid content and/or consulting income. For personal finance bloggers like me, paid consulting about personal finance is almost impossible. There is already an industry that consults on...
Quick Wins, Pareto, and Personal Finance In "Using Pareto Principle to Improve Personal Finance" post, I demonstrated how we could use the Pareto principal to focus our limited resources on the things that will give us the most benefits. Raymond from Money Blue Book commented: "Interesting concept -- so is it suggesting that I would be...- DEFINITELY don't take it to the top at Sprint I read the title of this article incorrectly. I thought 1,000 customers fired Sprint, but it's the other way around!Sprint to 1,000 customers: You're firedSprint Nextel showed 1,000 "needy" customers the door and gave them until the end of July to find another wireless provider. The letter was reproduced over...
Weekly Round Up - PS3 New Releases - 20th February 2009 With such a great week for game releases, with FEAR 2 and SOCOM being released, next week has a lot to live up to. Find out what is coming out next week by reading on. It is a great week for retro fans with a big name making a comeback...- How to apply for a CSCS Card Health and Safety Test How to go about applying for a Construction Skills Health and Safety Test and get my CSCS card? The fastest method to book your CSCS Card Test is to pay online through the Construction Skills Website here, or by telephone 0844 248 5262 (lines open Monday to Friday...
- The Fiery Cross / Diana Gabaldon Genre: Historical fiction / romanceMain characters: Jamie Fraser, his wife Claire, their daughter Brianna and her husband RogerSummary: Jamie and Claire, Brianna, Roger, and their son Jemmy have all resumed their (more or less) quiet existence on their settlement in the mountains. There are only a few years left until...
Borders and table drawing Borders refers to lines that separate a table into cells, rows, and columns. You’ve seen in other chapters that borders are not unique to tables, and can be applied to characters and paragraphs as well. They also can be applied to other Word document elements, such as text boxes, frames,...- Internet bullying For one middle-school girl it was a rumor, circulated via text messaging, that she had contracted SARS while on a trip to Toronto. She returned to school and found nobody would come near her. For an overweight boy in Japan, it was cellphone pictures, taken of him on the sly while he was changing in the locker room and then sent to many of his peers.
Become Smitten with Twilight's Biting Appeal I am very upset with Associated Press Movie Critic Christy Lemire's review of Twilight. She gave the film 1.5 Stars and wrote a very unappealing look at the book's film adaptation. I thoroughly enjoyed the film and I think the review was written to be controversial rather than an adequate...- I'm mad as hell Just about everywhere you turn, you see articles and commentary about the government actions to stem the fall out from the subprime mortgage crisis. I've resisted writing about this until now, mainly because so many people with at least a passing interest in money, government, or politics have covered every...
